Appleby Creamery applies IoT technology to cheese-making

Appleby Creamery, a small-batch cheese producer based in the Lake District is enhancing its traditional production methods and sustainability efforts by adopting Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Working in partnership with CENSIS, an organisation specialising in digitalisation and enabling technologies,…

Combating food safety fears with cloud-based quality solutions

Food and beverage is seeing a number of approaches to digital transformation. Jason Chester, Director of Global Channel Programs, InfinityQS discusses how the industry can be enhance with the right approaches to processing the data. Cloud-based software-as-a-service quality management solutions…

AI & automation in the food industry

Ian Hart, Business Development Director at adi Projects, a division of engineering firm adi Group, discusses why manufacturers should turn to automation and AI to deal with emerging trends within the food and beverage industry. Automation technology has been on a path of steady…

A taste of what’s to come in food sensing

There are some jobs that you simply cannot picture a robot doing, and a chef’s job of food tasting is certainly one of those human-only tasks that may never be automated. Sam Holland recaps the University of Cambridge’s exciting robot…

Watch automated mushroom harvesting

Automation helps alongside humans to process over 90 tonnes of mushrooms per week. This piece introduces Axis and Igus’s energy chain technology. The TH3 energy chain for automated mushroom harvesting The TH3 energy chain, a product of AXIS Harvesting, is…