It’s a faster world than ever— with solutions and products available on demand, frozen meals are no exception. Frozen meals provide reliable nutrition to busy customers keeping up with this fast-paced world. The many benefits of frozen food help the customer who is on the go to keep their momentum without missing out on a good meal. However, busy customers still have expectations for their frozen food. Frozen food manufacturers can meet these preferences with automation to create unique recipes and connect with customers who rely on frozen meals.
Here, we’ll dive into the benefits of frozen food and how good automation helps brands meet customers’ needs. We’ll also spotlight the advantages of frozen food infeed conveyors as an example of precise automated food equipment. Automation has simplified how brands create their products while also innovating ways to meet consumer demands.
Food Manufacturing Automation and Meeting Customers’ Needs
Food manufacturing automation has many benefits— most notably convenience. Customers depend on this convenience so they can focus on their schedules. However, they still expect quality and products that meet their preferences, so it’s up to food manufacturers to meet these needs. Customers expect consistency, food safety, healthy options, variety, and reduced waste from frozen meals and manufacturers. Luckily, these are all also benefits of frozen food that food manufacturing automation can ensure.
Consistency
Consistency is important for building customer trust. When a customer buys a product, they expect the same great quality every time. Quantum food manufacturing automation standardizes the production process, making every product consistent. The customizable features of our equipment allow brands to have control over the look of their products while also increasing their quality and consistency.
Food Safety
Customers also trust that their frozen meals are safe. Another benefit of frozen food is that the manufacturing process grants high visibility to brands for monitoring and maintaining food safety. During the food manufacturing process, microbes, dirt, and other contaminants can threaten food safety. However, we’ve designed Quantum equipment to be washdown-compatible and easily maintained in order to prevent contamination and promote food safety. Using state-of-the-art equipment designed with safety in mind can prevent expensive recalls and maintain customer trust.
Variety
Customers appreciate choice, even as they’re busy. Even though customers need to squeeze in a good meal throughout their rushed routines, they look forward to choosing a reliable meal they’ll enjoy. Yet, using different ingredients to expand product lines can be expensive and require extra equipment for frozen food manufacturers. However, we at Quantum design our equipment to apply a range of ingredients, making variety feasible for brands. The versatility of our automated food equipment grants flexibility in ingredient application and product variety for customers.
Healthy Options
More recently, customers have been looking for healthy meal options. One of the benefits of frozen food is that manufacturers can create meals that provide good nutritional value. Quantum automated food equipment can apply healthy ingredients like IQF vegetables as part of a balanced meal. The versatility and efficiency of our equipment simplify the development of different products, including healthy meal options. As such products become more popular, meeting this customer need is encouraged to achieve success.
Reduced Waste
Consumers are more environmentally conscious than ever. More and more, they’re choosing products from companies that are dedicated to lessening their environmental impact. Quantum food manufacturing equipment helps brands to reduce waste and become more eco-friendly. Our equipment conserves energy and water resources. Our target applicators dispense only the specified amount of ingredients per product. Our waterfall applicators can have reclaim capabilities to catch and recirculate unused ingredients. The consistency and precision of Quantum equipment also cut down on the number of meals that don’t pass QC and subsequently need to be thrown out. Together, these features actively limit waste and reduce brands’s impact on the environment. As a result, brands that use this technology can highlight their commitment to sustainability on their packaging to connect with customers who look to purchase from environmentally conscious brands.
Consistency, food safety, variety, healthy options, and reduced waste are all modern needs of consumers. The benefits of frozen food make customer lives easier and are possible with Quantum’s automated food equipment. Next, we’ll explore a spotlight on the advantages of frozen food infeed conveyors. They’ll be our example of how automation improves food manufacturing and helps brands meet customer expectations.
Spotlight: Advantages of Frozen Food Infeed Conveyor
Infeed conveyors are key parts of any food manufacturing process. Infeed conveyors maintain the orientation of the products as they progress through the manufacturing process. Because of this, these conveyors bring quality, consistency, and reduced waste to food manufacturing lines. The advantages of frozen food infeed conveyors, such as our Model IFOR Series, are that they streamline food manufacturing without sacrificing quality.
Quality and Consistency
Because infeed conveyors ensure proper product placement as they get placed on a flighted conveyor, these conveyors maintain consistency and quality. Because they control the placing and pacing of products on the assembly line, infeed conveyors keep the alignment of the products as they start the assembly process. Proper product placement is critical for the successful application of ingredients throughout food manufacturing. The advantages of frozen food infeed conveyors include quality and consistency because they facilitate product alignment and correct ingredient placement. Quality and consistency are key characteristics of frozen food to meet customer expectations, and infeed conveyors ensure just that.
Reduced Waste
Because infeed conveyors bring quality and consistency to assembly lines, they also reduce manufacturing waste. Without infeed conveyors, products could pile up on the line, miss ingredient applications, and cause downtime due to conveyor jams. This can result in products not passing QC and getting tossed, which is expensive. Infeed conveyor product placement ensures that products are correctly oriented, and sets them up for successful assembly. This ultimately reduces waste, which is how companies can streamline expenses and what customers appreciate from frozen food brands.
Meet Demand and Customer Standards With Quantum
We at Quantum Technical Services understand how vital meeting demand and customer standards is for continued success. Relying on our industry-leading automated food equipment helps frozen food labels to meet quotas while also improving quality and consistency. Contact our team today to learn which of our engineered solutions can transform the way your brand meets demands and sets standards.