Food Engineering

FE April 2025 cover

April 2025

FOOD ENGINEERING has named Carolina Foods' plant in Pineville, North Carolina as its 2025 Plant of the Year. This month's cover story highlights how the honey bun maker turned to automation and other technology to improve efficiency and product quality. We also look at OEE, conveying and how to overcome "option paralysis" when it comes to digital transformation.

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Feature Articles

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Data collection in food manufacturing

OEE Metrics Evolve as Data Standardization Takes Shape

The race to standardize plant data is happening fast. As food manufacturers standardize data, digital tools accelerate and provide a closer look at overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and maintenance metrics.
Grant Gerke
Grant Gerke
April 21, 2025

Data collection has become a major part of food manufacturing, but without data standardization, measuring overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) poses a challenge.


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conveying and packaging operations

Planning Tips for Conveying Systems and Lines

Creating efficient conveying systems begins with knowing what you want to accomplish, then enlisting the help of system integrators and suppliers — you may find that you can do things you hadn’t thought possible.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
April 14, 2025

Creating efficient conveying systems begins with knowing what you want to accomplish, then enlisting the help of system integrators and suppliers — you may find that you can do things you hadn’t thought possible.


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From the editor

How Do Consumers Feel About Ultra-Processed Foods?

A recent study by Purdue University’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability looks at whether consumers understand the terms “processed” and “ultra-processed: and if they have their own opinions on them.
Alyse Thompson-Richards, Editor-in-Chief
Alyse Thompson-Richards
April 17, 2025

A recent study by Purdue University’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability looks at whether consumers understand the terms “processed” and “ultra-processed: and if they have their own opinions on them.


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Spoonful of peanut butter on peanut butter jar

FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Sanitation for Low-Moisture, Ready-to-Eat Foods

This guidance provides the agency’s current thinking on establishing a routine sanitation program for low-moisture, ready-to-eat foods that can help prevent pathogen contamination events and also sets forth recommendations for corrective actions.
April 11, 2025

This guidance provides the agency’s current thinking on establishing a routine sanitation program for low-moisture, ready-to-eat foods that can help prevent pathogen contamination events and also sets forth recommendations for corrective actions.


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