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How can food manufacturers best address costly equipment contamination and the downtime that can result? One answer is to choose solutions that are designed to improve efficiency and meet stringent sanitary requirements.

From major acquisitions to economic and policy changes, the food industry has had an eventful year. EIC Alyse Thompson-Richards takes a moment to reflect.

EIC Alyse Thompson-Richards recaps some recent plant openings and expansions in the food and beverage industry.

Success in operational readiness is all about data collection. When predictive maintenance systems are integrated with actionable alert-enabled HMIs, OEE increases.

We’ve compiled the Top 10 processing and packaging equipment solutions FOOD ENGINEERING’s readers were most interested in this year.

Compliance will require not only formulation changes but also process redesign, supply chain realignment and organizational adaptation.

Manufacturers continue to advance the design of vibratory feeders to evolve and meet the food industry’s needs and regulatory challenges.

Manufacturers that are shifting their views and approaches to waste reduction — seeing it as a critical driver of performance — are also seeing the greatest gains despite a shaky economic outlook.

Given the pivotal role pH plays in many aspects of food production, choosing the right pH electrode and meter is an important step in solving top pH testing concerns.

To make good decisions, people, automation and AI systems need quality data — but to let an AI agent make an autonomous decision without input from operators and key decision makers means a processor needs to have lots of accurate data based on real and known sensory inputs, which may not exist in many plants and enterprises.