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Symposium on Automation and Digital Transformation through F&B from Feb 26
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Saturday, 06 February, 2016, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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fiogf49gjkf0d International Society of Automation (ISA), a non-profit global body of automation professionals, is organising a national symposium on “Automation and Digital Transformation through Food & Beverage Industry” from February 26 – 27, 2016, at Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel, Brigade Gateway, Bengaluru. The event will be inaugurated by R V Deshpande, minister for large and small scale industries, Karnataka.
The event will have 25-plus expert speakers and panellists picked from among the business visionaries, policy-makers, F&B manufacturers, OEM plant assemblers, automation and IT vendors and young startups bringing disruptive technologies to the market. The few dignitaries who are likely to attend the event are representatives from FSSAI, USFDA, and ministry of food processing industries (MoFPI).
The various topics to be discussed at the sessions are Productivity Improvements through Automation; Control & Digital Technologies; Quality, Hygiene, and Laboratory Management Systems; Engineering, Networking, Power & Energy Management; and Compliance & Surveillance
and panel discussion will focus on state of the industry and way forward.
The speakers would be presenting the latest trends, technologies and innovations in front of 250-plus delegates. The sessions intend to resolve the doubts and dilemmas through interactive Q&As.
The presentation and panel discussions will include F&B activity projections, current and future regulatory compliance, success stories, pain points of the industry, automation and IT solutions for the same.
The CEO panel discussion in the evening of the Day 1 will open the doors to the visions of tomorrow by the top leaders of the industry. Various exhibitors will showcase their latest products and solutions in an exhibition focussed on food and beverage domain on both days.
Thematic Sessions
Policy: Dwell on compliance and safety standards at different levels
End Users and OEMS: Highlight the productivity and regulatory challenges faced by them and seek Automation and IT solutions or present their success stories
Automation/IT vendors: Present specific solutions available with them currently to address the challenges faced by the F&B industry
Innovation forum: Underline the future automation and IT trends and innovations in the pipeline to service the F&B industry. Disruptive technologies by distinguished start-up companies will be presented.
The Indian food and beverage sector, which is currently growing at 23% to 24 % annually is likely to touch Rs 3.80 lakh crore by 2017, according to a survey. A recent FICCI-Grant Thornton report says the sector is largely dominated by the unorganised segment that would decline significantly in the next four to five years.
Thanks to the recent spotlight on food safety and regulatory compliance, the sector will require increasing involvement of automated methods of quality and contamination surveillance and logging of the data for tracking and tracing to avoid potential disasters. This is besides such technological upgrading will contribute to operational productivity and energy efficiency. Not to be left behind, the logistics, warehousing, sales, shelf inventory control and brand management will all demand modern innovative solutions to stay ahead in the game.
The symposium aims at drawing together a volley of industry experts from end-user manufacturing plants, equipment-manufacturers, engineering consultants, automation suppliers, and digital transformation solution providers. The symposium will also deliberate and seek solutions that address “compliance and safety regulation” challenges faced by this industry in recent times. That automation and digital solutions do play a vital role to mitigate such challenges will form part of the forum deliberations.
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