Pilz has provided safety consulting and thorough training for dairy company Bega Group, bringing the 'Spirit of Safety' to life.

In the competitive landscape of UK food and beverage manufacturing, the margins between profit and loss are often found in the pipes. As energy costs and sustainability targets tighten, processors are looking to move away from legacy 'timer-based' cleaning regimes in favour of real-time optical sensing. The experts at PLUS Automation take a look at how the SATRON VO is redefining Clean-in-Place (CIP) efficiency.

Automation solutions provider Eberle Automatische Systeme has developed a breakthrough in quality control with a focus on the cheese-ripening process, combining AI with machine vision software from MVTec.

Precision planetary gearboxes from Apex Dynamics have been selected by UK packaging machinery company T. Freemantle for use in its new S01 pre-glued sleever.

Riegele Brewery has boosted global distribution with hybrid KEG filling technology and advanced measurement control from Endress+Hauser.

Very few seals can effectively handle a large axial displacement and significant shaft deflection. One of these is SeccoLip from EagleBurgmann, with its proven and patented lip design that can reliably compensate for shaft deflection.

Germany's largest ice lolly manufacturer Busemann produces 3.5 million ice pops daily. For forty years, the brightly coloured ice pops of the BUSSY brand have been hugely popular with young and old alike. What began with the import of a US filling machine in the mid-70s has in the meantime developed into one of the largest frozen drink manufacturers in Europe, which widely relies on automation - and on sensors from autosen.

Fruchte Jork from Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - a family-run fresh food wholesaler - has reached an important milestone: Its new, fully automated deep-freeze warehouse is in operation, employing a bar code positioning system from Leuze.

Rockwell Automation reports that THG Nutrition, home to Myprotein - the world's largest online sports nutrition brand - has selected the Plex Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to drive operational excellence, support rapid growth and unify its manufacturing processes across multiple sites.

Faced with stringent cleaning requirements and the use of harsh disinfecting chemicals, a food processing company needed a cleaning solution that was both effective and reliable. To address this challenge, the company partnered with Membracon - an OEM - and IMI to develop a bespoke machine cleaning system, ensuring food processing equipment could be efficiently cleaned after each production shift.