Industry Expert eBook: How Automation Powers Growth in the Food and Beverage Industry

To dive deep on this subject, the impetuses for automation, what it looks like in practice today and what it might look like in the future with the technology of tomorrow, we turned to some our internal subject matter experts.

Inflation. Rising costs. Supply chain disruption. Material scarcity. Labor shortages.

It seems like everywhere they turn, food and beverage businesses are facing significant impediments to profitability and, in many cases, operational continuity. When being able to run your production lines and staff your factory floor aren’t givens, it can be difficult to even
imagine pursuing growth as an organization.

That said, there are certainly companies doing that today—though some are more successful than others. What’s the secret ingredient for boosting your bottom line and thriving despite
challenging conditions? Turns out, the answer is as logical as it is transformational, and that’s automation.

Our recent study conducted in conjunction with B2B International revealed that, across both North America and Europe, food and beverage businesses automating their processes experienced higher revenue and profit in the past 12 months, and they expect further
increases in those metrics in the coming year.

To dive deep on this subject, the impetuses for automation, what it looks like in practice today and what it might look like in the future with the technology of tomorrow, we turned to some of our internal subject matter experts. We’ve got their full roundtable here for you
to take in, but first we should clarify just what automation is and all it entails in the food and beverage industry.

Speaking with our experts, it became clear that automation is much more than machine arms completing repetitive manual tasks on a production line. Automation also includes digital processes that record, share and/or analyze data on their own, without the need for
human intervention, when they would otherwise require a human to process them.

Now, with that established, let’s jump into the discussion so you can hear it from those who know it best thanks to their decades of experience in the food and beverage industry, working with organizations of all sizes around the world and the technology that enables greater operational efficiency and better decision-making.

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