With the invention of new products further promising substantial growth, the food and Beverage manufacturing industry have witnesses significant growth in the past few decades.
The ever-increasing population also compels the food manufacturing companies to keep up with the growing demands from the customers. Hence, automation has become an important part of the food industry to meet the requirements of the increasing demand & maintain improved Quality.
By bringing in efficiency and consistency in the product, the adoption of automated systems has changed the food manufacturing industry.
The quick advancements in IoT and strong prospects of consumers and governing agencies for improved food quality and safety have enforced the food industry to implement automation of most industrial processes.
Besides, the increasing demand for advanced and processed packaged foods and the increasing food safety regulations have considerably surged the demand for automation in the food industry.
Automation has simplified the food packaging process for different applications including palletizing and depalletizing, packaging and repacking, pick and place, grading and sorting, processing, logistics, etc.,
Many industries have already introduced automated technology into their day-to-day operations.
Let’s break these down further and take a look at the benefits of Automation in the food and beverage industry.
1. Better Quality Control throughout the Complete process
Quality plays a vital role in any F&B Industry growth. In every stage, If the system gets automated, defects can be found and eliminate more easily. So, this will be very helpful for maintaining the better Quality and helps to ensure defective products do not enter the marketplace and underlying manufacturing errors are corrected.
2. Safety for Workers
Automation eliminates the need of workers to perform monotonous, repetitive motion jobs or dangerous tasks such as limiting heavy items. So that, it will avoid unpredictable accidents or injuries in factory.
Increased safety for workforce also helps to reduce operation/maintenance costs in the long run.
3. Reduce Skilled Labors/Manpower’s
Due to unavailability of skilled labors in modern days, it is very difficult to depending on them to run the factory consistently. Automation will eliminate this factor and increase the productivity as expected.
We can use the data for,
- Monitor changes in consumer behavior and identify any emerging trends/preferences.
- Increase knowledge on market trends and use this information during new product development processes.
4. End-to-End Traceability
The companies can capture better safety, quality and profitability at once when the products are traceable. Regulatory compliance costs can be cut down by food producers and by streamlining traceability they can continuously improve key processes.
Automation and Modern analytics tools can be used to track products and goods throughout the supply chain journey, allowing you to tap in anywhere along the chain to see the information relevant to you.
Modern analytics and automation can be used at your disposal to find exactly where a contaminated shipment is shipped or headed. This way we can head off a huge health problem before it even starts.
5. Brand protection
“Branding and Quality are the two things that drive food companies”
Retaining the Good Relationship with the Customers, Food Manufactures rely upon their Brand Reputation.
For maintain trust with customers, need to ensure the business is following best practices. Multiple product recalls or disease outbreaks can be highly damaging to both Company’s reputation and profits. Ultimately leading to losing valuable business to the competitors.
Through Automation, Entire business system can centralize data from multiple sources to make it easier and quicker for us to find what we need.
6. Better Improvement of Efficiency
Its no lesser fact that a machine or automation system can perform work faster and better than human laborer’s at least in a few cases. Unless any machine has a malfunction, it never tires and can never slack off. It doesn’t mean that modern automation technologies will be used to replace workers outright, but instead, they might be deployed alongside them to help them work safer, better and Faster.
7. Consistency in Product Output
“Consistency is Very Crucial for F&B Industries”
Always Consumers expects to buy the same product over and over again and want it to have the same consistency in terms of Texture, Quality, Taste and Flavor. Regarding this factor, Automation provides this by eliminating the changes of human error and effectively managing production and accuracy will be maintained consistently at any point.
