Food Exec Brief: Trends in Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Welcome to this week’s Food Exec Brief, a roundup of the most important news shaping food and beverage manufacturing.
- AI-driven predictive maintenance to reduce unplanned downtime
- Virtual twins to de-risk capital investments
- Supply chain intelligence to optimize deliveries
- Regulatory uncertainty affecting packaged products
Companies like Hovis and Mars, PepsiCo are deploying AI across multiple facilities to transform maintenance from reactive to proactive, using machine learning to forecast equipment failures.
Manufacturers are transforming maintenance from reactive firefighting to proactive intervention.
Author’s summary: AI and virtual twins are changing food manufacturing.