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Through the Line: Packaging and Processing Podcast
Through the Line: Packaging and Processing Podcast
This podcast explores innovations and information across the packaging and processing landscape, from topics impacting consumer packaged goods and healthcare packaging, to the latest technologies in food processing operations. Join us for the latest insights, trends, and strategies shaping packaging and processing today.
Through the Line Podcast: Lean Principles in the Machine Learning Era
What happens when decades-old lean manufacturing principles collide with today's machine learning push in food and beverage plants?
August 12, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: MSU Students Help Dairy Facility Stabilize Wastewater Treatment
What does it take to fix an unstable wastewater treatment system at a facility processing 2.9 billion lbs of milk a year?
August 5, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Inside Harvest Station Foods
What does it really mean to design a facility for freshness? At Harvest Station Foods' new Loudon, Tenn. commissary, disciplined data analysis, USDA-ready room design, and a flexible layout let the facility consolidate deliveries and adapt to future product needs without sacrificing operational stability.
July 29, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Vision Systems Done Right
How does machine vision reduce waste and create real-time insights? Vision systems aren’t about adding more screens to the control room. They’re about eliminating preventable risk. When implemented thoughtfully, they reduce uncertainty. Vision systems replace assumptions with confirmation and turn delayed discoveries into real-time validation.
July 22, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Potato Processor Balances High Demand and Quality with Sorting Tech
How can a processor ensure consistent quality when managing high demand? To meet needs for both high output and consistent product quality, Bem Brasil installed a Key Technology processing line capable of running 30 metric tons of frozen potato strips each hour, with a layered sorting system to find and remove any defects.
July 15, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Bar-W Beef Keeps Supply on Track with Traceability Tech
How can protein processors stay on top of traceability? Manual tracking of inventory from animal receiving through regulatory checks and all the way to warehousing and shipping can take diligent record-keeping.
July 8, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Café Spice Transforms Production and Profitability with a RaaS Solution
How does adding flexible automation allow Café Spice to improve production and deal with labor woes?
July 1, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Griffith Foods Demonstrates Robots with a Human Touch
How can food processors balance automation adoption with workforce retention and morale? In its modern plant in the Antioquia area of Colombia, the global food producer integrates collaborative robotics to boost productivity, safety, and well-being—without losing sight of its human and sustainable character.
June 24, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Maintenance as a Strategic Advantage
How does proactive and predictive maintenance practices help food processors do more with less?
June 17, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Flexible Equipment and Modular Line Design
What does it really mean to design for change in food and beverage processing? Disciplined process design, sanitation strategy, and modular thinking can enable frequent changeovers without sacrificing stability. But, the pursuit of extreme flexibility can backfire, and the most adaptable systems are often those that place clear boundaries around complexity.
June 10, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Inside the Planning Behind a Future-Ready Food and Beverage Plant Part 2
What does it actually take to build a world-class food manufacturing facility from the ground up?
June 3, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Inside the Planning Behind a Future-Ready Food and Beverage Plant Part 1
What does it take to turn an existing facility into a future-ready food and beverage plant?
May 27, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: How AI, Smarter Inspection & Humanoid Robots Are Reshaping interpack
Is AI in packaging finally past the hype—and what does it look like when it actually works?
May 20, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Practical Utility Optimization in Food Processing
How can food processors lower their utility costs? Many utilities can be optimized from the plant floor through simple actions, procedural changes, and improved visibility. Listen to this episode to hear strategies for reducing compressed air, water, and energy use, often without spending a dime on new equipment.
May 13, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: A&Z Pharmaceutical Cuts Blending Cycles with Rotary Batch Mixing
What did a nutraceutical company do to keep up with increasing demand for its health and wellness supplements? A&Z Pharmaceutical replaced traditional V-cone blending on the new line with rotary batch mixing—cutting blending times by more than 90% while maintaining strict uniformity and GMP requirements.
May 6, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: Water Reuse at Food and Dairy Plants
Is water recycling in food and dairy plants viable? Options for dairy and food plants include water reuse solutions through reverse osmosis and membrane bioreactors or monitoring offtake to water/wastewater facilities. Sustainability programs may have driven the first wave of these projects, but food producers are now leaning on data analytics tools to get more approvals.
April 29, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: AI's Role in Food Inspection
What do real-world applications of AI in food and beverage applications look like? To better understand the current role, limitations, and outlook of AI in food inspection, ProFood World reached out to inspection system suppliers Eagle Product Inspection, METTLER TOLEDO, and ProSpection Solutions.
April 22, 2026
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Through the Line Podcast: What MAHA Means for Food Manufacturers
What are the biggest FDA compliance challenges facing food and beverage manufacturers today? Editor-in-Chief Derrick Teal sits down with David Lennarz, President of Registrar Corp, to discuss why understanding evolving regulations is critical. Ensuring proper supplier verification programs is essential. Even staying ahead of potential changes to ingredient approvals and food safety rules can significantly impact operations and innovation.
April 15, 2026
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