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Worker Safety

Poultry Processing Injury-Illness Rate Falls Below General Industry, Manufacturing Sectors for First Time

Nov. 13, 2024
U.S. Dept. of Labor has tracked total recordable incidents since 1994, and poultry industry has cut its injury-illness rate by 89% since then, becoming a standard-setting sector...
Technology

Sensor Technology: Seeing Better Consistency, Quality and Safety

Aug. 12, 2024
Sensor technology continues to push the envelope, while software and network innovations clear a path toward better consistency, quality and safety in a variety of food and beverage...
Technology

Consider Time-Sensitive Networking Technology

June 10, 2024
A step toward smart manufacturing, it’s the first open industrial Ethernet with 1 gigabit/second bandwidth, bringing data collection, transmission and overall production to the...
Automation

Industrial Automation Solutions for Food & Beverage Producers

June 4, 2024
Rittal’s innovative hygienic design solutions are engineered for high hygiene zones, but they are part of a larger industrial automation ecosystem that food and beverage manufacturers...
Technology

Detection Looks to Take Another Technological Leap

May 15, 2024
As food and beverage processors search for ways to eliminate foreign materials from their product streams, technology continues to offer new ways to detect contaminants.
Automation

8 Formula manufacturing needs of food manufacturers

March 22, 2024
For food manufacturers looking to control inventory, improve quality insurance, increase profits, and more, there are eight key “must have” features for any batch processing software...
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Capital Spending

Tyson Opens New $300 Million Fully Cooked Plant in Danville, Virginia

Nov. 29, 2023
Highly automated facility will produce four million pounds of fully cooked poultry products per week for Tyson Foods’ retail and foodservice channels.
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Advanced data management software and instrumentation can help processors monitor their operations remotely.
Manufacturing Equipment

Instrumentation, Data Keep Processors One Step Ahead

Oct. 31, 2023
Processors use a variety of instrumentation to monitor the process and equipment, and the data revolution is raising the bar on the amount of valuable information that can be ...
Artificial Intelligence Food
Technology

Are Food and Beverage Processors Ready for Artificial Intelligence?

April 28, 2023
Food and beverage processors that lay the groundwork now will be positioned to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence in their plants sooner rather than later.
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Capital Spending

2022 Capital Spending Outlook: Labor Situation Shapes Capital Spending Choices

April 4, 2022
Our annual report finds that as food and beverage companies plan to ramp up their capital spending, labor issues are top of mind.
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End Flap

End Flap: Let Go of Legacies

March 16, 2022
In his April column, Senior Editor Pan Demetrakakes ponders the notion that keeping an old, creaky plant running is an industry tradition – but for how long?
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Coronavirus

How Meat & Poultry Are Coping With COVID’s Challenges

Feb. 28, 2022
The meat and poultry sectors have been among the hardest hit in the last two years. Here we lay out a few coping strategies for how to move forward past the pandemic.
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Automation

Opinion: No Better Time Than Now To Automate

Feb. 8, 2022
Pre-pandemic, many companies were “considering automation” in their production facilities. Post-pandemic, you have no choice but to automate in your production facilities.