As food and beverage manufacturing moves toward
becoming a $1 trillion market, the opportunities and challenges grow along with
it. The industry, by any yardstick, is big business: a bigger pot, more
players, more geography and more challenges.
How to take
advantage of the opportunities this offers and the obstacles it presents
requires continuing vigilance by management at all levels and in all
operations.
It means increased reliance on technology to
monitor, manage, analyze, take action and plan for the future, and a brighter
spotlight on the manufacturing professionals who convert this data into
meaningful, manageable and actionable information.
However,
it comes at a time that the manufacturing industry is faced with a shrinking
number of engineers to develop and maintain processing and related systems.
For many food and beverage manufacturers, the solution has
been to look to system integrators.
Members of CSIA–Control
System Integrators Association (www.controlsys.org)–fill this need, providing
food and beverage manufacturers the assurance that they are financially healthy
companies capable of completing projects in a professional, low-risk, and
technically sound manner.
System integrators identified
as CSIA Certified members have met additional stringent performance
standards–as measured in an intensive audit process conducted by an independent
third-party consulting firm–in general management, financial management,
project management, quality management, technical management, human resources
and business development.
Listed on the following pages
are those CSIA members who focus on providing services to food and beverage
industry–offering a range of services across the full spectrum of
manufacturing, including the increasingly important area of food safety and
regulatory compliance.
We look forward to working with
you.
View the CSIA member companies