Food safety specialist Fortress Technology examines the importance of food metal detectors and why the company has dedicated 30 years to developing systems to cover every food processing HACCP checkpoint.

The production of safe food and drink products depends on maintaining hygienic – in some cases sterile - production equipment. In most cases this involves Cleaning-in-Place (CIP), where equipment is cleaned in situ without the need for time-consuming dismantling or opening, but there are better ways, as the experts at HRS Heat Exchangers explain.

Weighing and inspection technologies are becoming a crucial lever for production managers today, as the experts at Minebea Intec explain.

In an industry where every minute of uptime matters, the value of hygienic design becomes visible not only during audits, but every time the line is cleaned and prepared for the next production run, as Miriam Krechlok, Segment Marketing Manager, Mettler Toledo, explains.

Although the case for investment in industrial automation and robotics is strong, in the current climate of corporate belt-tightening, many automation projects don't make it off the drawing board because of the perceived high upfront investment. Oliver Selby, Head of Sales, FANUC UK, reframes the cost of robotics.

Matt Hale, global business development director at HRS Heat Exchangers, looks at the importance of heat in glucose production.

New machinery is relatively straightforward to install, but building consistency across multiple facilities is often much harder. Here, Mark Richards, sales manager at Beckhoff UK, explains why standardising automation matters for growing manufacturers.

As industrial operations become increasingly connected, the rules of cyber security are changing. Success is no longer defined by preventing every attack but by building the resilience to withstand and recover from them. Lee Carter, Industrial Cyber Security Product Manager, SolutionsPT, explores the three steps necessary for industrial cyber resilience and why yesterday's security playbook no longer works.

Chris Johnson, managing director of bearing specialist SMB Bearings, explains how selecting heat resistant, sealed bearings can improve reliability in bakery operations.

The increasing digitisation and networking of industrial plants has changed the risk landscape. That's because classic functional safety is no longer enough to guarantee Machinery Safety in modern production environments, as Jurgen Bukowski, Senior Manager Consulting & Services Operations at PIlz, explains.