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Benefits of Automation

in the Food and Beverage Industries

When entering the digital age, many industries are increasingly bringing automation systems into production.
The food and beverage industries have begun automation technology to track production processes along
the supply chain to reduce severe injuries and reducing labor costs, which are the 7 benefits of automation
systems in the food and beverage industries are as follows:

Improvement of Quality and Processes Traceability
Product quality is caused by multiple factors Using automated tools can help track products
such as processes, workers and touchpoints throughout the manufacturing process to determine
that are difficult to detect in the production the cause of product contamination or allergens in
process. Bringing automation can help improve production the production process. It can also identify the root of the problem
efficiency, controlling and limiting ingredients’ use not to quickly before the product is launched to the market, and more
exceed specified standards, increasing work safety, importantly, it can protect the brand image, such as ERP
reducing human errors, preventing product recalls, (Enterprise Resource Planning) system that integrates production
protecting your brands, and earning customer trust. data in one location, checks and analyzes deep data quickly
Consumers always expect the same quality products and such as prediction future sales and profits, investigation the
consistency in terms of smell, taste, and texture. market trends in changing consumer behavior for the database
in new product developments.
Injury Prevention in the Workplace
Automation will replace repetitive workers, Improvement of Efficiency and Boosting
including dangerous tasks such as heavy lifting, Output Rates
or robots can cut complex parts of meat in the meat industry. The automation system can run 24 hours daily, and
Workers can focus on essential tasks instead of repeating time-off can be scheduled. So, the production
simple tasks. This helps increase work safety, reduce efficiency is higher than using labor. In addition, the maintenance
working time, and reduce production and maintenance costs of the machine can be improved, such as the IoT (Internet of
in the long run. By simply updating the standard hardware Things) system in the smart factory that collects data efficiently
and software systems, production problems can be solved. automatically and transfers directly to the ERP (Enterprise
Production costs are lower than the old system that requires Resource Planning) system, including real-time information
employee training and expensive safety equipment. notification. It also reduces work hours on maintenance of
machines and frees up to improve other tasks.
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