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A new app allows for weighing and measuring individual cannabis plants offline. Photo courtesy of GrowFlow

Food Packaging

Harvest Mobile App Launches for Cannabis Growers

August 25, 2021

GrowFlow, a business management and compliance solution for cannabis wholesalers and retailers, debuts Harvest, a new mobile app.

Editor's Note

What does the future hold?

Whether inventions or iterations, technology and our understanding of it continue to hold untapped potential

Casey Laughman

May 5, 2021

There’s a helicopter on Mars.

It’s still pretty amazing to be able to type those words.

Editor's Note

Looking for innovative solutions

Food and beverage processors explore new ways of doing what they’ve always done

Casey Laughman

April 1, 2021

Food and beverage processors look for new ways to improve operations while facing the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

People & Industry News

People and Industry News: March 2021

March 12, 2021

The people and companies making news in the food and beverage industry.

Podcast: AI and robotics in pet food processing

How pet food processors are adapting AI, robotics and automation strategy

Casey Laughman

January 8, 2021

Processors are exploring ways to integrate AI, robotics and automation throughout the process—from the time ingredients come in the door until the time finished product is loaded on a truck.

Pandemic requires new employee training methods

Some new training methods are here to stay

Casey Laughman

January 7, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to disrupt operations across the food and beverage industry, processors find themselves balancing a number of training challenges.

2020 PLEX State of Manufacturing Technology Report

Manufacturing News

Study reveals manufacturers face new competition as biggest growth obstacle in 2020

But when it comes to adopting new technologies, food and beverage manufacturers are out in front of other industrial categories

Wayne Labs

May 19, 2020

The results are in for PLEX’s State of Manufacturing Report 2020, and they show the food and beverage industry is in many ways out in front of other industries in terms of adopting new technologies to maximize efficiency, competitiveness and profits.

Fab Food Plants

How Prestage Foods of Iowa built a state-of-the-art pork processing plant

Sharon Spielman

December 9, 2019

Producing more than 1.4 billion pounds of pork and turkey annually, the Prestage Farms family of companies employs more than 2,700 associates and is affiliated with more than 470 farm families across the U.S.

1898 & Co. to grow tech and management consulting talent

A new future-focused consultancy arm from Burns & McDonnell

Sharon Spielman

October 22, 2019

Burns & McDonnell launches its first new brand in the firm’s history with 1898 & Co., a future-focused consulting and technology solutions arm to deliver on clients’ biggest challenges.

Innovation

Virtual, augmented reality move from entertainment to maintenance

VR, AR can help decrease repair time by providing information on the spot

Wayne Labs

March 4, 2019

In the last five years, augmented and virtual reality technologies have been making steady inroads to the manufacturing world, especially in finding useful applications in maintenance. Today, IIoT and Industry 4.0 technologies play an ever expanding role in maintenance.