Food and Beverage Is the Only Sector Losing Ground on Downtime
Key takeaways:
Food and beverage is moving the wrong way. While nearly every manufacturing sector cut its unplanned downtime hours over five years, fast-moving...
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Food and Beverage Is the Only Sector Losing Ground on Downtime
Key takeaways:
Food and beverage is moving the wrong way. While nearly every manufacturing sector cut its unplanned downtime hours over five years, fast-moving...
AI Is Splitting Food Manufacturing Into Two Groups. Frozen Desserts Show How Fast It...
By Neil Sahota, Chief AI Officer at Consolidated Analytics
Key takeaways:
AI is dividing food manufacturers into two groups: those that make products and those...
Food Exec Brief: Beef Capacity Contracts, the Peace Deal Won’t Cut Food Costs, and...
Welcome to this week's Food Exec Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for food and beverage manufacturing leaders. This week, we're covering:
JBS is closing...
In Food Plants, AI and Automation Are Filling Roles Nobody Can Staff
Key takeaways:
The food-plant labor shortage is structural, not a temporary dip. Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute project U.S. manufacturing could need 3.8 million...
How AI Can Turn a Retiring Operator’s Know-How Into Something a New Hire Can...
Key takeaways:
The mechanism is retrieval rather than replication. Modern systems pair a knowledge graph (a map of your equipment, faults, and fixes and...
The Reality of Reformulating Out of Synthetic Dyes
Key takeaways:
National phase-out remains non-binding. The 2026 FDA objective to eliminate six petroleum-derived dyes is built on an industry "understanding" rather than official...
From System of Record to System of Action: Rethinking ERP and AI in Food...
Sponsored by QAD
The era of ERP as a system of record is over. For Consumer Products and Food & Beverage manufacturers, capturing what happened...