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What is Automation in Food Processing about?

Factory-based food production and processing globally forms one of the largest economic and employment sectors. Within it, current automation and engineering practice is highly variable, ranging from completely manual operations to the use of the most advanced manufacturing systems. Yet overall there is a general lag in the use of automation technology compared with other industries. There are many reasons for this lack of uptake and this chapter will initially discuss the factors that make automation of food production so essential and at the same time consider counterinfluences that have prevented this automation uptake.In particular the chapter will focus on the diversity of an industry covering areas such as bakery, dairy, confectionary, snacks, meat, poultry, seafood, produce, sauce/condiments, frozen, and refrigerated products, which means that generic solutions are often (considered by the industry) difficult or impossible to obtain. However, it will be shown that there are many features in the production process that are almost completely generic, such as labeling, quality/safety automation, and palletization, and others that do in fact require an almost unique approach due

Author

Darwin G. Caldwell; Steve Davis; René J. Moreno Masey; John O. Gray

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9783540788300

Subjects

Computer Science, Engineering, Business