Food and Beverage Manufacturing Top Stories

Tech Update

Tech update: Meeting great expectations

As consumers want a bigger variety of healthier choices that come in a plethora of sizes, manufacturers are offering fillers that are flexible while producing optimal output.

Debra Schug

September 14, 2015

Blame social media, changing tastes and needs or just the “Have it your way” attitude inspired by Burger King’s decades-long slogan, but modern consumers are demanding

Top 100 Food & Beverage Companies

The world's top 100 food & beverage companies - 2015: Change is the new normal

Global volatility in both socioeconomic and political terms, shifting demographics and an explosion in e-commerce created an increasingly challenging backdrop to activities during the past year.

Claire Rowan

September 9, 2015

Operating in today’s uber-global, volatile world is challenging existing corporate structures and forcing the food and beverage industry’s leading players to become ever more adaptable, responsive, proactive and innovative.

Tech Update

Optical Inspection: A finer line of separation

Vision technology improves product quality and manufacturing efficiency in multiple areas of the processing plant.

Debra Schug

August 25, 2015

In the face of coming regulations, as well as forecasts calling for increases in food production and decreases in food waste, the task at hand for food and beverage processors appears to be a monumental one.

Non-Thermal Processing

Take off the heat

For some applications, non-thermal pasteurization or sterilization techniques can produce safe food as well as thermal techniques and preserve taste, texture and color.

Wayne Labs

August 14, 2015

Thermal pasteurization techniques have been around since Louis Pasteur, and there is no question they’re effective.

State of Food Manufacturing

The State of Food Manufacturing: It's all about throughput

Concerns rise due to the need to increase throughput as consumers clamor for more and more innovative food selections in a biosphere being pushed to its limits.

Wayne Labs

August 6, 2015

What issue about your current plant/facility keeps you up the most at night?

Preventive & Predictive Maintenance

The future looks smarter

Whatever maintenance program you follow, an intelligent data gathering system plus a CMMS can decrease parts expenditures and increase uptime.

Wayne Labs

July 22, 2015

If run to failure is no longer an option, food and beverage processors have alternative ways to keep their equipment running at peak performance levels; they can plan maintenance schedules based on OEM suggestions.

13th Annual Replacement Parts Survey

Replacement Parts Survey: Proactive inventory practices

Study shows processors are continuing to find solutions to reduce unscheduled downtime and improve operational excellence.

Debra Schug

July 10, 2015

Food Engineering’s 2015 Replacement Parts and Components Trends Survey identifies the “who, what, why and how” of replacement parts purchasing, inventory maintenance, condition monitoring and related topics.

Food Automation and Manufacturing Conference 2015

Rising to the challenges

Presenters at FA&M stressed innovation and flexibility as key strategies for processors to obtain operational excellence.

Debra Schug

June 26, 2015

The week after Food Engineering’s Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference and Expo, Kraft announced the iconic bright orange color of its Macaroni & Cheese sauce will be discontinued.

Food Safety

Auditing the auditors

Although auditing schemes are competitive, they are all working toward the common goal of elevating the safety of the food chain.

Jaan Koel

June 20, 2015

Numerous GSFI-based food safety schemes are in effect these days.

Plant Construction Survey

38th Annual Plant Construction Survey: Fast track project delivery

There’s more money available, but it’s already earmarked for automation, sanitation, operational efficiency, utilities—and sometimes a new facility.

Wayne Labs

June 11, 2015

No question about it, the numbers of reportable food and beverage projects in 2014 hit a nine-year high—a total of 635 compared to 555 in 2013, according to Food Engineering’s 38th Annual Plant Construction Survey.