As the food supply chain undergoes modernisation and calls for heightened transparency in food safety grow louder, food manufacturers find themselves facing the need to embrace digitalisation. According to Ian Scott-Mance, technology manager at Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection, rather than viewing this as a challenge, they should perceive it as a strategic opportunity to unlock significant value for their businesses.

Food processing plants typically run their equipment for 16 to 20 hours a day, yet a Forbes report claims that manufacturers face an average of 15 hours downtime per week. Tom Cash, director of Siemens parts supplier, Foxmere, explains how the role of condition-based maintenance (CBM) helps maintenance engineers recognise gross defects before catastrophe strikes.

For manufacturers, keeping a close eye on their Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) numbers, the last thing they want is unscheduled downtime messing things up. Kati Hope, global account manager of Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection, shares information on how picking the right product inspection system can be a game-changer for keeping the production line humming and decreasing spend for food manufacturers.

OMEX Environmental supplies non-hazardous and environmentally friendly liquid and solid treatment solutions for the food and drink, energy, water, construction and transport sectors, working closely with industry to reduce environmental impact, treat waste and help optimise operational performance.

The NXT malibu from IDS Imaging Development Systems combines on-camera AI with compression and live video streaming up to 4K. At Food Manufacturing Live, you can discover how useful the IDS NXT all-in-one vision system really is – and why it sets standards in food inspection.

As a specialist in instrumentation, control and automation for the food and drink production industry, the team of experts at Total Automated Solutions is dedicated to converting asset performance through digital transformation and asset improvement.

In the simplest terms, a heat exchanger is like a radiator, designed to heat (or cool) one material from another. However, over the last 150 years or so, a wide variety of types and designs have emerged, meaning that finding the most suitable type of heat exchanger for your application is not always simple. Matt Hale, international sales and marketing director at HRS Heat Exchangers, looks at the considerations for choosing the right heat exchanger for food processing applications.

Whether syrups and flavourings for beer or soda, low flow flowmeters are required to dose these concentrated fluids at the end process, dispensing the precise amount of liquid to the correct dilution. However, the smaller the flow, the trickier it is to control and measure, and finding a suitable flow measuring technology at reasonable cost can prove challenging for both users and flow sensor manufacturers, as the experts at Titan Enterprises explain.

As a leading manufacturer of cycloidal precision gears and an experienced solutions specialist within the food industry, Nabestco is familiar with the exact requirements to produce drive systems with maximum performance, safety and reliability.