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How can Industry 4.0 help the food and beverage industry?
Keith Thornhill, Siemens Digital Industries, Head of Food and Beverage, discusses why it is time for manufacturers to embrace the smart factory.
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Rosy past, present and future
Anna Lambert, food industry writer, reports on Salumificio Viani’s state-of-the-art production process, which combines centuries-old techniques with artisanal know-how to ensure the sweet taste and warm pink hue of the Tuscan prosciutto it produces.
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Delve inside GEA sweets technology at ProSweets
From January 27 - 30, technology group GEA will offer customers and interested parties in-depth insights into its efficient industrial solutions and machine technology for the confectionery, snack and bakery industries at its ProSweets 2019 booth (Hall 10.1 / G-061) in Cologne.
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Premiere at ProSweets 2019: TOMRA Food launches state-of-the-art sorting equipment ensuring highest quality sweets and confectionery
TOMRA Food, part of the Norwegian TOMRA Group, is showcasing innovative sweets sorting systems for gummies and delicate confectionery products at ProSweets 2019 in Cologne, Germany for the first time...
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Farmers could benefit from monitoring pasture nutrients
A study developing a hand-held NIRS device to check levels of nutrients in pasture could enable farmers to easily monitor levels to adapt grazing...
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Cambridge researchers develop new robotic lettuce leaf-peeling system
University announces the development of a system designed to handle fragile lettuces.
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It’s time to fix manual ingredient weighing
Did you know manual handling and weighing of ingredients costs bakeries up to 1% of turnover? Traditional mechanical handling and pneumatic conveying solutions fail to deliver the flexibility food companies require. Consequently, we rely on people to complete arduous weighing tasks in harsh, dusty working environments. Fortunately, the robots are…
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When ‘smart’ has a whole new meaning
An artisan bakery in Dublin is using technology to up its game and reduce its energy costs, as Thomas McGrath explains.
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The upward march of the dairy processing market
In recent times, the dairy processing equipment market has innovated, introduced new product lines and worked fervently to meet the ever-incrementing demand for all dairy products. The dairy processing equipment market is faced with challenges that arise from increased competition, infusion of high technology and the need to keep up…
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Robots will support, not replace, growers in the future
British growers visiting The Netherlands also learned that automating the more challenging aspects of horticulture, such as harvesting non-uniform crops, is still too far in the future to have a realistic impact on production, despite huge leaps in technological development.
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APRIL Robotics Inspires Food Revolution
How many robots prepare and cook food in your factory? It’s an area set for major growth and over 30 food businesses were inspired to take action; transforming their manufacturing with robotics and automation at OAL’s Food Manufacturing 2030 Conference.
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Compliments to the automaton – new restaurant uses robot chefs
Four 'robotics obsessed' graduates from MIT, one of the world's leading engineering research institutions, have taken a leap forward in the field of food service automation.
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Interview: Food firms ‘should learn robot lessons from car industry’
Food manufacturers planning to automate their production systems should learn the lesson of the car industry in the 1980s: that it pays to share information, Mike Wilson, Chairman of the British Automation & Robot Association (BARA), tells New Food's Anna Lambert in this exclusive audio interview.
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Labour and the role of automation in food safety
The UK food industry has always relied more on manual labour than our European competitors. Now the UK has to start taking automation seriously if it is to compete effectively in world markets. Rob Chester, Managing Director of Food for NSF International in the UK, considers the implications for food…
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Country Profile: United Kingdom
In this Country Profile we consider the implications of automation for food safety and we take a look at both the growing wine industry and strong independent craft beer trend in the UK.
