Full immersion into issues affecting production dominated this year's program.
On the other hand, those seeking lively discussions of critical issues in food and beverage processing with leading practitioners and a chance to network with peers and solution providers got exactly what they wanted. More than 25 hours of programming over three days left precious little down time. The 220 conference participants interacted with 22 presenters on topics such as ERP and MES implementation, designing a plant for food safety, executing a tracking & tracing system, deriving operational benefits from RFID, data collection for controls management-and that was just the conference's first half. As a chaser, there were more than 50 exhibitors at a conference Expo that drew an intimate crowd of 300.