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Food Safety Works Tech 4.0 meet-up explores smart factories & intelligent pkg solutions
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Tuesday, 29 April, 2025, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Nandita Vijayasimha, Bengaluru
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From AI-driven smart factories to intelligent packaging that tracks freshness, innovative tools are transforming production, logistics, and consumer safety, this year’s Food Safety Works Tech 4.0 meet-up explored smart factories and intelligent food packaging. It highlighted that advanced technologies are reshaping manufacturing and food systems.
The future of food met the power of technology at the quarterly Tech 4.0 meet-up hosted by Food Safety Works, bringing together professionals from the IT and food sectors to explore innovations shaping the industry.
The event on April 26, 2025, held with the theme Tech 4.0: Production, Packaging and More!!’, proved to be a hub of insightful conversations, exclusive demonstrations and collaborative ideas aimed at driving digital adoption in food businesses, according to Ramesh Agarwal, CEO, Food Safety Works.
The meet kicked off with a briefing on the company's ongoing technology initiatives setting the tone for the day-long techfood revelations. Embedded sensors, smart labels, and data analytics are making food packaging more than just a container. "From freshness tracking and supply chain transparency to waste reduction and consumer safety, intelligent packaging is transforming how we store, monitor, and consume food," said Agarwal.
The frontiers of Industry 4.0: Smart Factories and Intelligent Food Packaging are revolutionising the manufacturing floor. "These innovations are not just incremental improvements but represent a fundamental shift in how products are made, monitored, and delivered. Smart factories leverage automation, AI, IoT, and real-time analytics to create fully connected production environments that are faster, more efficient, and capable of adapting. Meanwhile, intelligent food packaging brings together materials science and digital tech to extend shelf life, monitor freshness, and enhance traceability, all while improving sustainability and reducing waste" he pointed out.
As we look at scaling our businesses for the world, technologies can really help. The factories generate a lot of data and storing them on the cloud allows us to get insights which can help improve the planning and production cycle. "Similarly smart packaging solutions can help extend the use case of the products to take them to places not gone before," Agarwal told FnB News post the event.
The spotlight was on two knowledgeable sessions that highlighted the convergence of automation, cloud storage and smart packaging in the food industry. The first session, titled ‘Automations for a Smart Factory’, was led by Ranjit Panolkandy, co-founder @BluNet Ventures. He showcased how automation is helping businesses reimagine, design and build sustainable production environments. Attendees gained insights into the role of cloud-based systems in optimising factory operations, reducing manual dependencies, and enhancing real-time decision-making — marking a significant step toward fully connected, intelligent manufacturing setups.
The second session, ‘Smart Packaging – Better Food’, delved into packaging technologies that do more than just contain. Here Vedanth Girish, founder @Extovate Venture introduced innovative solutions like self-heating and self-cooling packaging, crucial for sectors like the military, emergency response and life sciences. These smart packages not only improve convenience but also extend shelf life and food safety, reducing the need for traditional heating or refrigeration infrastructure.
The participants had glimpses of forward-thinking approach and practical techfood applications from cloud integration in factories to packaging that can heat itself where the future of food lies. With each quarterly edition, Tech 4.0 continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible when food meets tech. The event reinforced that the road to a smarter, more sustainable food industry is not just near but is already underway, according to Agarwal.
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