As new regulations have led to increased food recalls, companies work to digitize their food safety systems, hoping they will help make it easier to track their products.
Food Engineering features some thoughts on the recent Romaine lettuce contamination by Aaron Cohen, co-founder of CoInspect and adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches the History of Internet Media. FE conducted an exclusive, one-on-one interview with Cohen, immediately following Cohen’s text.
For many processors, using food safety software systems means finally getting rid of the rows of cabinets filled with Excel sheets and handwritten data. Some have been prompted to move recordkeeping and food safety management into the digital age by FSMA.
New transportation management software offers the snack manufacturer flexibility and user-friendly tools to build better route
January 21, 2018
Snyder’s-Lance, which markets nearly 20 leading snack food brands, builds and maintains routes for nearly 3,000 independent owners of equity territories across the US. The company has implemented the Appian FinalMile routing and scheduling solution to dramatically enhance its route engineering and territory planning capabilities.
While there's no "one size fits all" solution to improving throughput, there are some guiding principles to help processors achieve greater productivity.
Manufacturing might have the reputation of being old, dirty and generally antiquated. But that image couldn't be farther from what is represented at the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute located in Chicago.
At its recent Innovation Summit, Schneider Electric unveiled three new solutions for the food and beverage industry to help processors achieve operational excellence and efficiency while ensuring they stay in regulatory compliance.