As consumers shift towards a demand for local, artisan foods, producers need to find more ways to speed up and maintain innovation.

The food industry is changing rapidly, and AI one solution for large manufacturers to improve. Keith Barr of L2L shares his expertise on the subject, "Machines were designed back in the day to run a certain way. If anything doesn’t meet the exact standard to run that way (e.g., materials don’t show up in time or are out of spec) they just won’t run. Then when it stops, you have to manually stop and fix it.” Another challenge is that older factories lack sensors and tracking equipment, so these abnormalities aren’t logged and therefore continue to plague the food production process"

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