Creating a 'best-in-class' contaminant detection strategy requires understanding the respective strengths and limitations of food inspection technologies. X-ray and metal detection both have the same quality control goal - detecting contaminants. Both have a place on food production lines, and when used together, both can strengthen food safety, as Phil Brown, European Sales Director at Fortress Technology, explains.

Over the last forty-plus years, HRS Heat Exchangers has gained a reputation for producing highly efficient tubular heat exchangers which provide unrivalled heat exchange capacity combined with consistent performance with a relatively small operational footprint. The key to this is its use of corrugated tube technology. Global key account director Matt Hale looks at the numerous benefits corrugated tubes provide over the use of smooth tubes in tubular heat exchangers.

Paul Carter, Sales Manager at FANUC UK, looks are how robots are set to shape the future of food manufacturing.

Food safety specialist Fortress Technology addresses the main metal detection challenges that arise when inspecting dairy applications for contaminants, reviewing how the latest technology is smarter and overcomes a number of sensitivity challenges.

By implementing smart and adaptable weighing technology in plant machines and equipment, Stephen Hayes, managing director of Beckhoff UK, explains why food manufacturers require control automation to increase efficiency and prevent avoidable costs.

Creating a 'best-in-class' contaminant detection strategy requires understanding the respective strengths and limitations of food inspection technologies, as Fortress Technology European sales director Phil Brown explains.

Kieran Bennett, industry manager for food, beverage, chemical and petrochemical at Burkert looks at the importance of process accuracy and how it can be achieved with innovative flowmeter technology.

With production data driving the digital era, food safety specialist Fortress Technology reviews how, at the push of a button, automated data collection and record keeping provides valuable insight that powers decision-making and operational effectiveness on food processing lines.

Many industrial manufacturing processes will result in the production of acidic waste streams. Where these undergo on site treatment, they are likely to require neutralisation before discharge, in order to comply with a discharge consent, as the experts at OMEX Environmental explain.

Consumer habits are changing, and thus so are the requirements of the process manufacturing industries. Here, Bradley McEwan, business development manager at Beckhoff UK, discusses how software and modular hardware enables easy integration of technologies, like robotics and vision, that were once considered ‘standalone’.