What should be paid attention to in the development of food machinery in the industrial age

The era of Industry 4.0 with ever-changing technologies has profoundly affected the development of all walks of life. Intelligent manufacturing has become a key word and an important development direction. It can be seen that in recent years, my country's food industry has accelerated the transition to automated, intelligent and digital production. In this regard, more flexible and personalized production lines have been used to improve food production efficiency and production level, enhance the market competitiveness of products, and meet the needs of consumers. On the one hand, it also responds to the development goals of carbon neutrality and carbon peaking, and promotes the healthy and sustainable development of the food industry.

My country's food industry is generally large in scale, but if you look closely, the situation of many, small, scattered and chaotic always restricts the development of the industry. After all, in order to achieve high efficiency and low cost in food production, scale is an inescapable topic. . Coupled with the impact of consumption upgrades, consumers' demand for food quality and categories has further increased. While the food industry is accelerating its scale expansion, it is bound to become an important topic to speed up the integration of industry resources, improve industry concentration, and improve the level of production technology.

Looking at the development of my country's food industry in recent years, from relevant government departments in Guangzhou actively carrying out the integration of food industry resources, promoting the food industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to become bigger and stronger, to Yanjin County in the north of Henan Province relying on its own resource advantages, Aiming at the development of the whole food industry chain and industrial clusters, and vigorously building a professional industrial park dominated by food processing such as flour and flour products, it can be seen that all places attach great importance to the development of the food industry. In addition, Panpan Foods, Ligao Foods and other industries have accelerated the resource integration of the elements of the whole industry chain, and promoted the large-scale and intelligent development of the food industry chain.

In the process of the industry moving towards large-scale development, the iterative upgrading of technical equipment is of great significance to its transformation and upgrading. At first, the improvement of automation level we mentioned may only be limited to the use of food stand-alone equipment to perform "machine substitution" in a certain link of food production, aiming to promote the improvement of production efficiency in key links. Up to now, whether it is the emergence of more and more new products and new packaging in the food field, or the rise of labor costs and difficulty in recruiting workers after the reduction of the demographic dividend, the automation and intelligence level of the production workshop have been further improved. It has become an important means to meet the needs of flexible production, promote industrial quality and efficiency improvement, and save energy and reduce emissions.

Therefore, it is not difficult to find that more and more food processing machinery and equipment have appeared in small and medium-sized food processing plants, and larger-scale food enterprises are accelerating the construction of "black light factories" and "lighthouse projects". Judging from the current situation, for example, the well-known Tsingtao Beer, Menglong Ice Cream, Juewei Duck Neck, etc. have completed the construction and operation of flexible production lines, and the production and manufacturing level of each sub-sector in the food field has been greatly improved.

However, with the continuous improvement of the level of automation and intelligent production in the food field, there are many benefits, and food safety is undoubtedly an insurmountable red line. Recently, it was revealed that propylene glycol was detected in milk products. According to its statement, due to the production switching process of pure milk and modulated milk, the residual modulated milk in the product tank line was effectively cleaned, resulting in the appearance of pure milk. Propylene Glycol.

The appearance of this incident may still remind the food industry to pay more attention to food safety issues while improving production quality and quantity, and take into account multiple balances! Especially in the food field, the whole line suitable for multiple products, rapid transformation of multiple forms and coordinated production is widely used. Strengthening the monitoring of food safety by modern means will still be an issue that needs attention under the current and future rapid development of the industry.