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Pepperidge Farm built on earlier projects and solid in-house engineering to construct a powerhouse bakery.

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Connecticut's most brutal winter in memory was a constant threat to derail the scheduled completion of Pepperidge Farm's Bloomfield, Conn., project.

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In the case of Pepperidge Farm's Bloomfield, Conn., bakery, ROI was just the first half of the equation.

Buns of fire

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A three-year collaboration between academia and industry to develop a vision-based automated inspection system for commercial bakeries is reaching the front burner.

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