Food Industry
The food industry demands the highest hygiene standards with FDA, EHEDG, and 3-A Sanitary certified instrumentation. Hygienic level and pressure sensors ensure product safety, batch repeatability, and regulatory compliance across all processing stages.
Overview
The food industry demands the highest standards of hygiene and process reliability throughout production. From raw material intake through processing, packaging, and storage, instrumentation must meet strict sanitary requirements including FDA, EHEDG, and 3-A Sanitary standards. Level and pressure sensors used in food production must be constructed from approved materials and feature hygienic designs that prevent product contamination and allow thorough cleaning. Applications span dairy processing, beverage production, baking, confectionery, and general food manufacturing. Consistent measurement accuracy ensures product quality, batch repeatability, and compliance with food safety regulations across all processing stages.
Industry Challenges
Key challenges we help address
Temperature excursions in cold chain causing product spoilage
Manual compliance logging prone to errors and gaps
Lack of real-time alerts for equipment failures
Managing CIP cleaning cycles without production disruption
Maintaining hygienic sensor installations in food-contact areas
Tracking batch quality across multiple processing stages
Process Categories
Dairy
Brewery
Tomato Production
Food General
Solutions for This Industry
Industrial IoT
Use Cases
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Animal feed silo
Food Industry
In the agricultural industry, animal feed is usually stored in tall, slim silos. To ensure that there is always enough animal feed in stock, a reliable level measurement combined with wireless data tr...
Aroma vessel
Food Industry
A wide variety of aromas and flavourings are used in the food industry. The containers which store these ingredients until further processing often have small dimensions and internal obstructions. The...
Autoclave
Food Industry
The aluminium cans are sterilised with steam at a temperature of 120 °C and a pressure of 3 bar in an autoclave. Then, while the cans are still in the autoclave, they are cooled down with water to a t...
Batch filler vessel
Food Industry
The small batch filler vessels around 1 m high and 60 cm diameter alongside the production facility supply the filler heads of the tank. The products vary from conserve to peanut butter to chocolate s...
Batching tank for milk cultures
Food Industry
The production of dairy cultures is a process characterised by heat treatment, cooling, inoculation, incubation and storage. Exact timing and temperatures must be maintained throughout all phases of p...
Beer tank
Food Industry
During the brewing process, a thick layer of foam is always present in the beer tanks. Therefore usually two pressure transmitters are used for level measurement. One transmitter measures the head pre...
Bottle cleaning
Food Industry
Before they are filled with beer, the bottles are thoroughly cleaned. The bottles are fed into the system and filled with caustic water in the basin of the washing facility, which removes all coarse d...
CO2 separator
Food Industry
CO2 is produced during the fermentation process in the fermentation tank. It is captured to increase efficiency and used later in the filling process. To this end, CO2 recirculation systems are integr...
Cheese vat
Food Industry
The milk is mixed with the cultures and the rennet and fed into the cheese vat. The milk is then coagulated at a constant temperature of +35 °C. After it has solidified, the curd is cut. The whey is t...
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