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Country Profile: United Kingdom
This Country Profile explores the threats posed to UK food safety in the wake of Brexit, the rising instances of food fraud and the benefits of Industry 4.0 on the food and beverage sector.
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Drones and 3D imaging could help farmers measure crop height
Researchers in the USA have found a way to replace intensive manual measurement with 3D imaging captured by drones.
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Issue #5 2017 – Digital Version
In this issue: an in-depth look at food analysis, consumer expectations about food fraud, the perks of buying local produce, food hygiene's dirty secret, and much more...
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Industry 4.0 and the food and beverage industry
Industry 4.0 is the development of manufacturing technologies that enable higher levels of interconnectivity, leading to greater communication between machines and decentralised/local processing of data. The result is smart factories in which machinery is increasingly autonomous, with the ability to manage its own service and maintenance requirements and adapt instantly…
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OAL to build new APRIL robotics production facility
OAL are building a new state of the art facility to support their APRIL Robotics Systems in Peterborough, UK.
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Country Profile: United Kingdom
In this UK profile, we investigate how Industry 4.0 could be a powerful tool, and Gavan Wafer, Head of Crime Operations at the National Food Crime Unit offers his insight into tackling food fraud in the 21st Century...
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Keeping it fresh: Solutions in frozen food warehousing to meet changing appetites
In light of the dramatic changes in consumer demands, Mischka Wolfert examines the role of emerging technologies in improving frozen food warehouse efficiency.
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Whitepaper: Protecting your brand reputation with automation by eliminating label and packaging errors
In this whitepaper, OAL explains how manufacturers can protect their brands by discussing the top five reasons for label and packaging errors, how automation can prevent label and packaging errors and ideas on the future development path of automation systems in food manufacturing...
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The future of food safety: the revolution is on our doorsteps.
In five years’ time, how will best practice look for food safety in light of technological developments?
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Hacked: 5 reasons why your food might be in danger
Can the food supply chain be hacked? Which dangers exist? What can be done? Take a look at the five reasons for why threats exist.
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Robot chefs are here, and they’re cooking lunch
11 August 2016 | By Roy Manuell
Join food industry leaders to ponder what food processing will look like at the “Food Manufacturing 2030 Conference” at the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, Holbeach, UK on Thursday 13th October.
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Automation essential to sustainable success, says TOMRA Sorting Food
13 May 2016 | By Tomra
Continued advances in automation and robotics are making the global food manufacturing and processing industries safer, more efficient and able to deliver higher profits, according to TOMRA Sorting Food...
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Acceptance of innovative automatic equipment in the postharvest and food industry
26 April 2016 | By Idoia Olabarrieta, Senior Researcher, Food Research Division, AZTI-Tecnalia / Izaskun Pérez, Senior Researcher, Food Research Division, AZTI-Tecnalia / Raquel Rodríguez, Food Researcher, Food Research Division, AZTI-Tecnalia / Jaime Zufía, Head of the Efficiency and Sustainability Department, AZTI
PICKNPACK1 is a large collaborative project granted by the EU within the 7th Frame programme, with the aim of boosting the development and implementation of innovative automatic systems in food industry. In order to find strategic approaches for facilitating greater deployment of new flexible and autonomous robots, sensors and packaging…
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ILS automated plate robots achieve UKAS accreditation
17 February 2015 | By International Laboratory Services
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service has awarded accreditation for the automated plate handling robots at our new food microbiology testing laboratory in Derby...
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Automation supplement 2013
4 November 2013 | By W. Jeffrey Hurst, Arthur A. Teixeira
Laboratory automation in food analysis (Author: W. Jeffrey Hurst, Hershey Company) Automation in the food canning industry (Author: Arthur A. Teixeira, University of Florida)
