Food And Drink Manufacturing

In food production, failure to comply with national safety and quality standards can be time-consuming and expensive, and can result in accidents or contamination. From sensors to personal protective clothing, from food safe cleaners to thermal imagers, read on to discover specialist product solutions and components ideal for food and drink production.

Process Automation and Machine Guarding

Preventive Maintenance, Maintenance Tools and Consumables

Site Management, Sanitation and Personal Safety

Food Industry Automation

Industrial automation in a food and drink factory can make the difference between failure and success. The Food Industry needs to be:

  • constantly monitored to prevent accident and contamination
  • compliance to local legislations
  • quickly reactive from one production batch to another
  • as fast as possible to allow the proper food processing

SICK Inspector Vision Sensors

Sick offers a powerful vision sensor portfolio providing a full tool set for inspection, positioning, measurement and reading depending on your needs.

The new Sick I40 Vision Sensor provides an intelligent vision solution in an easy to use sensor package. The vision sensor has features to solve inspection at high speed, incorporating locating and positioning tools as well as edge detection and pattern matching functions. All this at VGA resolution and storing data and images over standard communications protocols.

  • High-speed positioning, inspection and measurement
  • Powerful “object locator” tool, independent of position, rotation and scale
  • Unique, interchangeable housing design supporting dome and various optical accessories
  • Simple step-by-step configuration in PC including emulator
  • Easy-to-use operator interfacesFlexible machine and HMI design interfaces

Food and Beverage Production: additional resources

Personal Safety for Food Protection

3M Food and Beverage PPE

3M are known for their continuous innovation to keep workers safe in the Food and Beverage industry, including the latest hearing and respiratory protection and more besides.

- Read how 3M™ PELTOR™ Communications Headsets protect hearing whilst improving productivity
- Choose eyewear to protect you from air-borne particles, chemicals, UV light and solvents
- Select from disposable, reusable and powered-air respirators

Site Management and Sanitation

Ambersil, maintaining food safety behind the scene.

Chemicals are critical for food industry. They are needed as well as in all other industries, but they are required to be Food Safe to prevent any possible contamination.

Being part of the global CRC Industries, Ambersil has a deep knowledge of the chemical industry and can therefore provide the right product for any specific application.

Ambersil has a wide range of chemicals with Food Production Safe approvals suitable for food and drinks factories.

Maintenance Tools And Consumables

Metal content cable ties the food solutions from HellermannTyton

The Metal Content Series from HellermannTyton is a cable tie specifically designed for use in the food & pharmaceutical processing industries.
Due to the inclusion of a metallic pigments even small 'cut-off' sections of the cable tie are detected by standard metal detecting equipment.
The blue colour of the cable ties assists in the visual detection and greatly reduces the risk of contamination making them ideally for cable installation around food manufacturing process.

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