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Food and Beverages Tech Review | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
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Automating food and beverages offers several benefits, including increased food safety and traceability.
FREMONT, CA: The use of automation in the food sector has grown over the past few years, enabling firms to fully understand their supply chain, safeguard employees from serious harm, and save labor expenses. Given this context, it is no surprise that 62 percent of the polled manufacturers aim to use robotics and automation in 2023.
Let us understand the various advantages of automation in the food industry.
Improves employee safety
Your people won't have to do boring, repetitive motion duties anymore, and automation can even handle the riskiest positions on your production lines. To increase efficiency, it also frees up your team to concentrate on other business-critical duties.
According to studies, manufacturing accidents increased by 10 percent in 2022 in comparison to the previous year, with the majority of these incidents involving falls or injuries sustained while moving big objects, such as machinery. Automation can help you increase output while lowering the danger of worker injury in manufacturing areas like cutting and packing.
Long-term maintenance expenses can be decreased by improving worker safety. New equipment or additional training for your workers may be required due to changes to new rules, which might take time. You could even need to spend money on safety equipment.
Adapting to new industry changes is easier with automation, and it saves you the hassle of dealing with the above by simply updating current gear and software to satisfy compliance standards.
Increased quality assurance
It becomes challenging even to evaluate food quality because there are so many steps, people involved, and touchpoints in the supply chain for food and beverages. While the quality of your ingredients is vitally important, there is only one way to achieve ideal quality with antiquated, disjointed processes consistently.
Automation can help you increase the effectiveness of your manufacturing lines, make the best use of your ingredients, and improve food safety while decreasing the possibility of any human-related errors.
Also, it will become more difficult to maintain consistency in taste, quality, and texture as you add additional ingredients to your manufacturing lines. These factors all affect whether a consumer buys from you. Automatic technology can efficiently oversee the entire food production process, lowering the likelihood of product recalls and ultimately safeguarding your company's reputation.
Increase end-to-end traceability to previously unheard-of levels
The biggest names in the food industry have been impacted by the sharp increase in recalls in recent years. Consider Ferrero, which recalled many of its "Kinder eggs" in April 2022 when salmonella traces were discovered. Automation and contemporary analytics tools enable you to track all ingredients from farm to fork, preventing this. As a result, you can determine problems as they emerge, identify tainted orders and determine their destination.
To protect your reputation, you can isolate the issue before it affects the general public.
Additionally, by enhancing the overall effectiveness of your supply chain and granting complete visibility into crucial processes, automation reduces stress and compliance expenses. For instance, food-specific technology can consolidate all your data in one place, providing your employees with a single source of data truth to help them make quicker, more informed business choices.
Improves effectiveness and increases output rates
With automation, you can reap the benefits of greater operational efficiency while maintaining high output rates. This is because technology can often function more effectively than humans.
Additionally, automation enables you to collect useful data insights from the production line that can be applied to accelerate the resolution of maintenance issues and reduce energy waste.
Reduction in food waste
Waste reduction has long been a priority in the UK because food producers are responsible for 16 percent of trash. Given the limited shelf lives of some perishable goods, supply chain waste in the food industry is a significant concern. If products are used later due to an abundance, they could be well-spent.
Businesses in the food industry can manage supply and demand better with automation. Depending on current demand, an end-to-end solution can offer precise information about how much stock is needed to reduce food waste.
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