Diego Echenique

Diego Echenique is CEO and co-founder of SenseiLab, a Florida company that captures veteran operators' knowledge and turns it into living, photo-based work instructions for manufacturers. He has spent 20 years in lean execution with manufacturers across food-adjacent machinery, marine and aerospace.

The Food Manufacturing Documentation Paradox: Audit-Ready Plants, Undocumented Know-How

Diego Echenique

August 31, 2026

Documentation is written to demonstrate compliance, but the knowledge that keeps lines running lives somewhere else entirely: in the heads and hands of a shrinking group of veteran operators.

Join Lynn Dornblaser, Client Advisor at Mintel, and Alyse Thompson-Richards, Editor-in-Chief of FOOD ENGINEERING, as they break down the 2026 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies and discuss the factors affecting this year’s rankings.

The webinar will examine how these trends are impacting every stage of the manufacturing process, from research and development through production, distribution and fulfillment.

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The Food Manufacturing Documentation Paradox: Audit-Ready Plants, Undocumented Know-How

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