Global demand for baked goods is on the rise. And while this might be good news to most bakery owners, many still have questions about how to modernize and upscale their manual operations to meet the latest spike in consumer demand. Manual batch processing is proven and effective, but it may not be enough to…
Technology solutions constantly shift as supply chains grow increasingly complex. Food manufacturers and distributors have faced several new challenges in recent years, and few other industries experienced more change than the bakery sector. The latest spike in consumer demand for baked goods means that a cursory idea of where your products are going and where…
Despite the emergence of so many new low-carb diets over the past several years, demand for baked goods has never been higher. Most US consumers eat grain products at least once a week, and nearly all these foods are produced at industrial wholesale bakeries. While rising demand for bakery products might seem promising, competition in…
If you operate a bakery that produces a range of products like slice breads, croissants, cookies, and decorated cakes, these goods have distinct microbial risk profiles that depend on the equipment and infrastructure used to make them. Such risk variances necessitate specific equipment design and special techniques for cleaning. In this article, we define hygienic…
Once you start implementing industrial automation solutions to your bakery business, you must integrate several manufacturing elements, from ingredient handling to dispatch and distribution, into one comprehensive bakery management system that works. Since the recent shortages in labor have promoted bakeries across the globe to take up automation to enhance productivity, let’s take a closer…
Just because an automation engineering company has branded software, it is not enough to trust them. Automation integrators need to be carefully vetted to ensure that they are knowledgeable about the system but also about protecting your valuable data. If you have professional needs, the integrator should be able to accommodate. Want to know how…
The worldwide market for baked goods is mammoth and unparalleled. Industry analysts project the bakery industry to exceed $570 billion by 2024, prompting wholesale plant owners to seek out the latest industrial automation solutions to meet increasing customer demands. The history of automation displays a significant relationship with food manufacturing and, in particular, the baking…
Automation has an increased presence in industrial baking. Ingredient handling, pallets, warehousing, and packaging are all being automated. More bakeries are also turning to automating their warehouses to organize items and maximize the shelf life of their products, minimize damages, and resolve capacity issues. But what goes into these automation controllers and how do they…
Analysts estimate that 30-50% of all automation projects fail. This low success rate isn’t attributable to a lack of understanding or too low of an investment in automation. Rather, it’s the inability to deliver the expected results after the project completes. Automation projects fall apart primarily because of infrastructure-related hangups, software reliability, and project management…
Food manufacturers that aim to expand their business understand that automating isn’t merely a value-add proposition. To stay competitive, you eventually have to automate. Whenever production facilities increase throughput, consistency requirements grow, and there is less room for error. While your manufacturing plant may have already automated some aspects of processing, ingredient handling automation carries…