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5 Tips for Automating Your Food Manufacturing Plant

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By Nitin Sharma

Head of Advance Engineering

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Overview

As the world dwells into the modern age of human civilization, the majority of industries are leaning towards automation to increase productivity and maximize the output. If you’re someone managing a food manufacturing industry, it won’t be especially easy for you to plant the seeds of automation in your industry. But, to keep your industry’s name on the top of the charts, it’s essential to take this risk.

 

Here are 5 tips for you to have a clearer understanding of how to bring automation in the food processing industry.

1. Use Industrial Internet of things (IIoT) to connect different processes

Many of the food manufacturing industries lack connectivity between their different manufacturing processes. However, in the quest of achieving a complete food plant automation for your food industry, it’s crucial to invest in IIoT or “Industrial Internet of Things” for your industry, which connects and optimizes different processes to work with each other effectively. The connection among different processes will make the overall process effective, fast, and transparent. Your industry will also feast on the fact that lesser human efforts will be needed when you’re being assisted by IIoT. Learn more about how industry 4.0 is ushering in a new era of IIoT.
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2. Transform your industry into a “Smart factory”

If you believe you have enough automation in your food processing industry and everything is fine — you might want to have a second thought as the technology won’t stay on the same floor of success, forever. In the near future, nearly all the current-gen machinery could be labeled as dumb when the industries get taken over by smart machinery working alongside cloud computing. A smart factory is the one that relies on, and completely utilizes all the smart level machinery available. Moreover, a smart factory heavily relies on cloud computing technology to streamline the flow of data. Find out what things are required to make your factory smart.

3. Utilize collaborative robots

The industries of the future will heavily rely on automated machines programmed to do certain tasks on their own. Program all your robots to work collaboratively, and you have a processing system that is, both, fast and efficient. Labh Group provides a range of offerings of collaborative robots, find out how collaborative robots can bring automation in the food processing industry.

4. Utilize the 4th revolution of industrial solutions

To achieve the highest level of food plant automation, it’s advised to utilize the 4th revolution of industrial solutions in your industry. This revolution is aimed for you to do more in less. It comprises many useful fields like the internet of things, the industrial internet of things, cloud computing, state-of-the-art ERP system, and more.

 

Find out more about Industry 4.0 and how Labh Group can help you in setting up an industry 4.0 ready plant.

Industry 4.0 for plant automation

5. Automation in supply chain management

As the world population goes on to increase at a rapid rate, the demand for accurate, nimble and flexible supply chain logistics will rise. Supply chain will need to adapt to larger, more complex methods of information and product transportation. It will be harder for outdated and slow-paced supply chains to fulfill the rising demand. Taking advantage of plant automation techniques for supply chains will essentially make sure your production and supply are perfectly matched supply to fulfill the demand.
Labh Group provides a wide range of automation solutions that will help you increase the efficiency of your plant multiple times. In this era of digitization, up-gradation is the key to staying competitive. Find out the different services we offer to help automate your plant.

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