A Quarter of Food Plant Workers Retire by 2030. Then What?

Key takeaways:  The shift is structural, not cyclical. The share of U.S. manufacturing employment at firms where 25%+ of workers are over 55 jumped from...

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A Quarter of Food Plant Workers Retire by 2030. Then What?

Key takeaways:  The shift is structural, not cyclical. The share of U.S. manufacturing employment at firms where 25%+ of workers are over 55 jumped from...

Where Agentic AI Earns a Seat on the Plant Floor

Key takeaways: Agentic AI is a different category from the AI you already use. Predictive AI flags a problem and generative AI drafts a...

Food Exec Brief: Input Costs Keep Climbing, a $40B Merger Takes Shape, and Your...

Welcome to this week's Food Exec Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for food and beverage manufacturing leaders. This week, we're covering: Food price volatility...

The Digital Passport: Why 2026 Is the Final Deadline for Automated Farm-to-Fork Traceability

By Stephen Dombroski, Director, Consumer Markets, QAD | Redzone FSMA 204 delays don't reset the clock. Retailers and consumers are already demanding end-to-end lot...

New Report Measures the Gap Between Food Safety Paperwork and What Auditors Actually Find

Food manufacturers are failing audits they thought they'd pass. Compliant on Paper, a new report from Food Industry Executive presented by SafetyChain, explores the difference...

Food Manufacturers Are Adopting AI Fast. Few Have Made It Pay Off at Scale.

Key takeaways: Food and beverage manufacturers are investing heavily in AI, but scaling lags. Most (83%) planned to increase AI spending in 2025, yet...

From Lean to Digital Lean: An Evolution of Lean in Food & Beverage

By Chris Kuntz, VP of Strategic Operations, Augmentir  Key takeaways: Traditional Lean runs on paper logs, manual audits, and end-of-shift reports. Digital Lean replaces that...

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