This year's challenging pandemic of COVID-19 has caused a number of food manufacturers to investigate improved methods of manufacturing in order to increase operator/product safety and improve social distancing, while still improving process efficiency. The use of automated material handling and batching systems is being increasingly implemented to not only minimize manual labor and intervention, but to also improve profit margins by optimizing accuracies for ingredient addition.
Sharon Nowak, industry expert with over 30 years experience in food and pharma processing equipment, presented this webinar which outlined how to best choose the proper type of equipment for various food manufacturing processes, and investigate the specific process advantages of each.
She focused on the use of automated material handling and batching systems which are being increasingly implemented to not only minimize manual labor and intervention in times of social distancing, but to also improve profit margins by optimizing accuracies for ingredient addition.
Primary Topics included:
- Why automate the ingredient batching process for social distancing?
- Critique options available for a variety of batching technologies.
- Evaluate how automated material handling techniques can also address issues in safety and process efficiency.
- Compare current material transfer and dosing techniques via traditional manual methods, and learn how processes can be improved and result in cost savings by using an automated solution.
