Automation has been a cornerstone of industry for quite some time, but food and beverage manufacturing has run behind other industries in implementing fully automated production.
It’s starting to catch up, and it’s doing so by studying what other industries are doing and adopting strategies that can apply to manufacturing processes regardless of what is being manufactured. Food and beverage can present unique challenges because the product isn’t always a uniform size and shape—think something like chicken breasts compared to a non-food product such as oil filters—but there are ways that automation and other manufacturing processes and strategies can be implemented successfully.