Welcome to the December 2013 issue of our F&B industry newsletter

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News

Mitsubishi Electric robot emulates intuitive human cake icing movement

Solving a long-standing automation problem in cake decoration has also produced a groundbreaking development that could be taken up across a whole range of other industries.

Food and beverage: the value of continuous development

The food and beverage processing industries develop and evolve at a pace that some manufacturers would find astonishing. Where its continuous development techniques lead, others often follow. Here, we talk to Simon Garbett of Gemba Solutions and John Rowley of Mitsubishi Electric to analyse their experiences.

Mitsubishi Electric's new FX3S creates a new PLC

category

The new FX3S PLC from Mitsubishi Electric completes the market-leading FX3 compact PLC range with the most powerful micro PLC yet. By taking the power and flexibility of the existing FX3G & FX3U premium compact PLCs and distilling it into a micro format Mitsubishi have created a new PLC category, the Premium Micro PLC.

Case Studies

Mitsubishi Electric causes a stir in white sauce production

British process and automation expertise has helped one of Japan's largest food producers to cut white sauce production time by 83%, reduce cleaning between batches because there is no burn-on residue and minimise energy consumption. PDX Reactor technology was integrated with Mitsubishi Electric equipment to create a 1200kg plant that produces the sauce in a single-stage process.

Keep on running with a Mitsubishi Electric service contract

With its 'make today, sell tomorrow' scheduling, the food and beverage manufacturing sector has an almost total intolerance to production breakdowns. They have developed sophisticated techniques to keep the lines working and the distribution channels full. Guy Kennett of Mitsubishi Electric explains that other sectors can benefit by adopting similar systems.

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