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Milchwerk Crailsheim dairy needed to improve the process and reduce energy costs
Digital Transformation

German dairy facility undertakes digitalization project

Milchwerk Crailsheim dairy needed to improve the overall cheesemaking process and reduce energy costs
July 14, 2022

Milchwerk Crailsheim dairy needed to improve the overall cheesemaking process and reduce energy costs.


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R.S. Hanline’s Pressure-Flow dry bean cooker
Processing Tech

Dry bean cook-IQF line processes up to 8,500 pounds of soaked dry beans per hour

R.S. Hanline reduced cook time to 3½ minutes, 90 percent less time than conventional atmospheric continuous-process cookers
Jim McMahon
July 9, 2022

R.S. Hanline reduced cook time to 3½ minutes, 90 percent less time than conventional atmospheric continuous-process cookers.


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Automating an organic dairy

How Aurora Organic Dairy used Westfalia AS/RS to streamline processes in two locations, helping deliver a higher quality product to its customers
June 29, 2022

Aurora selected Westfalia to design, manufacture and install a second AS/RS within their new Columbia cold-storage warehouse, whose location was a greenfield site, offering flexibility in square footage, capacity and solution design.


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Evolution Fresh cold-pressed juice

Automated high pressure processing offers benefits

Cold-pressed juice maker Evolution Fresh updated their HPP process to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and drive revenue.
Sharon Spielman
Sharon Spielman
June 5, 2022

Cold-pressed juice maker Evolution Fresh updated their HPP process to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and drive revenue.


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ERP solution---SYSPRO-USA

Protein provider sees advantages with ERP solution

Ruprecht, a provider of fully cooked sous-vide protein products and raw meats, chose a software solution from SYSPRO USA to boost capabilities and save costs.
Sharon Spielman
Sharon Spielman
May 18, 2022

Ruprecht, a provider of fully cooked sous-vide protein products and raw meats, is an example of the capabilities and cost savings food manufacturers can attain with a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) purpose-built for their industry.


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To measure moisture content Hostess adopted the AQUALAB 3

Inside Hostess brands R&D

The company is focusing on product predictions in R&D, quality control metrics and production optimization.
May 5, 2022

Recently, Hostess partnered with METER Group to assist with product predictions in R&D, to quality control metrics and production optimization.


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St-Méthode bakery

Canadian bakery digitizes management, cultivates collaboration

St-Méthode Bakery chose to digitize its management system to empower managers and improve its practices.
Sharon Spielman
Sharon Spielman
April 26, 2022

St-Méthode Bakery goes paperless for better communication, coordination and collaboration.


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Finished machine screen---Siemens
Field Report

The doughnut store that is a shop floor

Krispy Kreme uses Siemens drives and controls integrated by Think PLC automation consultants, making each store a high-tech doughnut manufacturing facility.
Sharon Spielman
Sharon Spielman
March 9, 2022
From its early beginnings, the Krispy Kreme company has designed and built the proprietary machines that have given “rise” to their equally safeguarded doughnut recipe.
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Hugo’s giant robotic arm
Field Reports

Robotic solution lightens the load at dessert topping wholesaler

When Hanan Products needed a way to alleviate the stress on their employees from lifting, they turned to K2 Kinetics for a robotics solution.
Sharon Spielman
Sharon Spielman
February 14, 2022

Although a national, downward trend in sales is happening in many sectors, Hanan Products, a 75-year-old, third-generation wholesaler in the whipped topping, icing and dessert-filling sector—and the original creator of Tasty Whip—has seen an increase in sales. 


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Field Reports

On-line viscometer maximizes yield in spray-drying process

An on-line process viscometer from Hydramotion Ltd. is reducing losses and maximizing yield in the production of milk powder at the H.J. Heinz plant in Kendal, Cumbria (U.K.).
February 11, 2022

Milk powder is produced by the process of “spray drying,” which is widely used in the food industry for making products as diverse as baby foods, coffee and soup mixes. 


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