Having access to reliable contaminant mitigation, trustworthy information and real-time quality monitoring are challenges for food processors. Automation and digitalization are inspiring exciting new solutions that can address these issues, enabling processes to be adjusted to optimize yield, save energy, prevent wastage or contamination and remove defective produce.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the whole world. Key concepts of doing business in Industry 4.0 are ‘innovation’ and ‘digitalization’. Many companies in every field devote huge budgets to innovative projects and incorporate digital technologies such as blockchain, robotics process automation, and artificial intelligence into their production processes.
One of the sectors influenced by innovation and digitalization is the milling industry. Innovation can meet the needs of the rapidly growing world population with digital investments in a sustainable manner. Technology has the potential to bring greater advantage to all players in the supply chain, bringing greater efficiency to production processes. The companies that realize this are making investments in order to adapt to the changing market conditions and to the digital age to meet the demand. Machine manufacturing giants, global food security agencies, enzyme and additive manufacturers, nutritional solution providers, grain bin manufacturers, global data collection firms are investing heavily in innovating process and providing solutions to include in the automation system and creating many web-based intuitive user interface applications to provide an overview of the milling process, real-time yield calculation, controlled production system, providing comprehensive data analyses on yield, stocks and prices in the global market.
Most of the innovations during the last decade aimed mainly to face the challenges of the flour milling industry, like lowering production costs, improving working conditions, complete process automation through application industry 4.0, and controlling product quality. Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, flour mills had to improve the quality and safety of flour, and equipment suppliers who serve the milling industry had to introduce new technologies that make flour production more safe and efficient.
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- Vorarlberger Mill: A traditional Austrian flour mill equipped for the future
The Vorarlberger Mill in Austria epitomizes the successful combination of tradition and cutting-edge technology. The introduction of Bühler’s Integrated Grinding System (IGS), Arrius, two years ago has not only improved efficiency and quality, it also future proofs the mill’s technology, so that they are ready to take advantage of increasing digitalization.
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- Innovation – A New Milling Generation
Today the new era is focused on higher productivity in industrial processes. In today’s competitive environment, innovation increases your chances to react to changes and discover new opportunities. It allows you to develop intelligent and optimized systems with the implementation of digital technologies into milling processes.
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- Latest flour milling technologies
Most of the innovations during the last decade aimed mainly to face the challenges of the flour milling industry, like lowering production costs, improving working conditions, complete process automation through application industry 4.0, and controlling product quality. Throughout COVID-19 crisis, flour mills had to improve the quality and safety of flour, and equipment suppliers who serve the milling industry had to introduce new technologies that make flour production more safe and efficient.
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