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Items Tagged with 'automation technology'

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Smarter Line Design Improves Food Manufacturing Efficiency and Throughput

September 10, 2026

Food manufacturers looking to boost throughput and reduce downtime may be overlooking a critical part of the production line: product movement. Discover how smarter conveyance, accumulation, and hygienic design strategies can improve efficiency, support automation, reduce product damage, and create more resilient operations.



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Redefining Quality: Has the Industry Lost Sight of What Actually Matters?

August 1, 2026

What if the smartest equipment is not the most advanced, but the most dependable? Dave Cobb examines how quality, maintenance, and long-term reliability truly intersect.


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How Automation Supports Variability and Flexibility in Food Manufacturing

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Falc Borchard
July 1, 2026

As product portfolios expand and production requirements become increasingly complex, manufacturers are under growing pressure to maintain efficiency with systems originally designed for predictable, repetitive production.


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DrinkPAK Turns to Siemens to Automate Texas Beverage Facility

April 15, 2026

Through a combination of advanced automation, smart infrastructure and tailored financial solutions, Siemens helps DrinkPAK scale its operations, maintain reliability, maximize energy efficiency and enable sustainable decision-making.


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2026 Plant of the Year

Recipe for Growth: How CJ Schwan’s Powers Pizza Production with People and Automation

With comprehensive automation and cross-departmental collaboration, CJ Schwan’s frozen pizza manufacturing facility and distribution center in Salina, Kansas is the 2026 Plant of the Year.
Alyse Thompson-Richards, Editor-in-Chief
Alyse Thompson-Richards
April 14, 2026

Blending advanced automation with purposeful design, this year’s Plant of the Year reflects how food manufacturers are engineering smarter, more efficient operations to meet evolving industry demands.


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How to Select Automation Technologies for Food Manufacturing

Alyse Thompson-Richards, Editor-in-Chief
Alyse Thompson-Richards
March 20, 2026

Black & Veatch’s Kim Lovan and Carrie Woehler discuss how food and beverage manufacturers are implementing automation, considerations for vetting solution providers, and how automation projects have evolved.


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How Caraway Tea Company Approaches Automation

February 2, 2026

Caraway Tea Company says it has adopted a practical, in-house approach to automation by designing and building custom production solutions.


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Taking a Cross-Functional Approach to Food Industry Trends

Alyse Thompson-Richards, Editor-in-Chief
Alyse Thompson-Richards
January 12, 2026

Bob Garrison, chief editor of Prepared Foods, Kelley Rodriguez, editor-in-chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods, and Alyse Thompson-Richards, editor-in-chief of FOOD ENGINEERING, discuss the biggest trends impacting the food industry in 2025 and beyond.


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ISA Reveals 2026 Leadership

January 8, 2026

The International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced its leadership team for the term beginning Jan. 1.


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Rebellyous Foods Commercially Launches Mock 3 Production System

January 8, 2026

The system converts conventional batch production of plant-based meat substrates into fully continuous and automated production.


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12/5/17
Contact: Vania

Automation & Digitalization: Give Your Food & Beverage Plant a Competitive Edge

ON DEMAND: The world is rapidly changing and large food and beverage producers are adopting automation and digitalization technologies that give them a competitive edge, allowing them to produce more efficiently and provide insightful information for decision making. Producers who lag behind will themselves be unable to compete. Technologies that used to be optional are now required for plants that want to remain competitive in a rapidly changing, cost-competitive landscape.

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Webinar

6/10/26 to 6/10/27
Contact: Meg K.

Dust, Damage, and Downtime: Designing Bulk Solids Systems That Protect Product and People

On Demand By focusing on real-world applications, this webinar equips engineers and operations professionals with the tools to design bulk solids systems that are safer, cleaner, and more dependable from the start.

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Webinar

6/18/26 to 6/18/27
Contact: Meg K.

Step-Change Solutions: What’s Next for Automation in Food & Beverage Manufacturing?

On Demand The session will examine emerging applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in food manufacturing, including how agentic AI could reshape operations, decision-making, and production workflows in the years ahead.

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Webinar

7/30/26 to 7/30/27
Contact: Meg K.

Introducing Industrial Metaverse for Consumer Packaged Goods

On Demand Discover how the Industrial Metaverse is transforming the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry by enabling companies to design, simulate, and optimize operations in a fully virtual environment.

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