Food manufactures are under ever-increasing pressure from consumers and retailers to improve food quality and safety against a backdrop of growing cost pressures and tighter margins.
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In response, food manufacturers are doing the right thing, becoming more efficient and improving food safety. Incremental gains will not be enough, however, and disruptive technologies will deliver the step change required for manufacturers to secure their future.
Like the automotive industry, over the next decade food factories will change dramatically because of disruptive technologies, with major implications for the whole supply chain.
Food Manufacturing 4.0 has arrived. Highly flexible “lights-out” manufacturing will enable the production of new products while intelligent product tracking will improve food safety and traceability.
Smart factories connected to the industrial internet will react to changing consumer demand at an incredible pace.
