Food Automation White Papers & Articles

  1. 5 Elements Of FSMA Food Manufacturers Need To Know 2/16/2017

    Food companies need to know FSMA, but the law is leaving companies with more questions than answers. This article will explain five elements of FSMA essential to food manufacturing operations.

  2. 5 Key Elements Of FSMA You Need To Be Aware Of 2/16/2017

    The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by the FDA in 2011 and aims to increase the safety of food manufacturing and distribution for consumers by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it. All food processors and food distributors need to know what’s included in this act, but unfortunately, as with most laws, the actual document is complicated and hard to understand.

  3. How Business Software Resolves Traceability Issues 2/16/2017

    If any of your activities include processing, packaging, labeling, storing, selling and/ or shipping seafood products, then traceability plays a key role in your working life. The need for lot tracking backwards and forwards across the supply chain has never been more front-of-mind than today, in this era of growing pressure for fast, effective recalls – that pressure being applied by the government, your customers and their customers (consumers).

  4. How 5 Electro-Magnetic Technologies Are Heating Foods Safely, Quickly, And Efficiently 1/10/2017

    Five innovative heating techniques, including infrared (IR), microwave (MW), dielectric or radio-frequency (RF), ohmic (OH), and magnetic induction heating (MI) utilize electro-magnetic energy and can heat foods faster and more efficiently.

  5. Food Irradiation Technologies: Principles, Commercial Advantages, And Limitations 12/15/2016

    Food irradiation has proven to be a safe and effective non-thermal process for enhancing food safety and extending shelf life of a wide variety of foods. Nearly 50 countries have approved or allow food irradiation, although the foods and doses can differ by country. Gamma irradiation technology was patented more than a century ago (in 1906) and has been one of the first non-thermal technologies thoroughly tested, validated, and adopted by medical and food industry over the past 60 years. Despite this, there is a lot of misunderstanding and concerns associated with the consumer acceptance, transport, storage, occupational hazards, and disposal of radiation sources.

  6. Weighing In On F&B Industry Checkweighers 11/29/2016

    Food inspection systems using state-of-the-art technologies are most successful when they are designed with many support methods and principles. I’ve written articles on how this is true with metal detection technology, X-Ray inspection machines, and vision inspection systems. This article will explore checkweighing systems, how they add support to food safety methods and principles, and the benefits implementing them can provide food manufacturers.

     

  7. Tips For Avoiding Nasty Surprises In ERP Selection And Implementation 10/26/2016

    Buying and implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is vital, but risky business. This white paper offers tips to make your ERP purchase and implementation go as smoothly as possible.

  8. Under Pressure: Novel Technologies Are Preserving Food & Extending Shelf Life 10/24/2016

    The key advantages of elevated pressures present an attractive and powerful tool to implement processing of food products and beverages at mild and ambient temperatures. However, many food processors don’t necessarily know that different types of pressure specifications and applications may lead to different microbial inactivation effects. In addition to well-known pressure homogenization and hydrostatic pressure processing, there are a few other pressure-based techniques that can be used for different categories of products in food preservation operations. Do you want to pasteurize or sterilize? Do you simply want to extend shelf life? What about added value? Here’s what you need to know about food preservation under elevated pressures.

  9. Advancing Robotics & Automation 10/4/2016

    Robots are becoming safer, smarter, more flexible and moving upstream

  10. Regulatory Requirements Make F&B Specific Software A Must 9/16/2016

    In a recent Mint Jutras report, we highlighted the special needs of process-related industries and concluded “any old” general-purpose Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)solution just wouldn’t cut it anymore. In a shrinking world where customers are more demanding, regulatory requirements and penalties for non compliance are stiff, and the threat of product recalls looms large, process manufacturers need ERP solutions that are broader and deeper, enriched with industry-specific functionality and enabled by advanced technology.