Food Manufacturing Automation

The food industry is investing in automated packaging, material handling and warehousing to fill in labor gaps and improve the safety of workers who process food and operate equipment in complex facilities. Food manufacturing automation leverages software, robotics, data analytics and other technologies to improve quality, safety and consistency in a variety of food manufacturing processes.

Southwest Research Institute has decades of experience supporting the food and agriculture sectors with applied science and technology solutions. Support of the food processing and manufacturing industries is a core focus, and SwRI’s scientists and engineers have developed diverse solutions for food manufacturers and processing equipment suppliers using innovative techniques.

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Food Processing Technology & Research Solutions

The Institute develops and deploys diverse food processing technology solutions for food manufacturers, distributors, and processing equipment suppliers. Typically, projects are instigated by new product or process development, cost reduction, improved quality of existing products, higher capacity processing systems, less human interaction with the product, reduction in environmental footprint, and better equipment reliability.

Turnkey production system development
Operations improvement
Diverse portfolio of subject matter experts and testing equipment
Robotics and automation solutions
Inspection systems
Human-robot collaboration
Novel process development
Independent verification and validation
System performance assessments

Food Processing Automation Solutions

SwRI helps clients develop and implement food processing automation utilizing expertise in food chemistry, manufacturing technologies, robotics and software development. Learn more about our enabling technologies below.

Food science podcast episode

Learn how SwRI breaks down food, fresh and processed, to test for everything from calories and carb to vitamins and pesticides.

Podcast

Food Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

Chemistry and chemical engineering are core to SwRI’s support of the food and agriculture sectors for more than 70 years. Our computer scientists, engineers and data scientists collaborate to develop food technology solutions such as Mass Spec Data Analysis other solutions, including: