What’s become apparent over the past decade is the critical need to reduce food waste by improving food preservation and protection in safe, cost-effective ways. That’s an opportunity to leverage emerging options in nanotechnology for food packaging that can reduce food and packaging waste. According to a forthcoming Future Market Ins

Companies from poultry, meat and feed industries came together in Atlanta from January 31- February 2 for International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), the world’s largest event of its kind. With a heavy focus on innovation, many companies showcased the latest technological developments addressing issues facing our industry.Dur

After 15 years of uninterrupted growth, jetliner industry production rates are in a downward spiral, thanks to the Boeing 737 MAX production shutdown and the COVID-19 crisis.While Airbus and Boeing will navigate through the crisis weakened but intact, the outlook for suppliers is less certain. The jetliner supply chain expanded and evolved in recen

Chips and talent are in short supply as companies scramble to jump on the AI bandwagon. Startup SambaNova claims its new processor could help companies have their own large language model (LLM) up and running in just days.The Palo Alto–based company, which has raised more than US $1 billion in venture funding, won’t be selling the chip directly

Over the past 30 years, the semiconductor industry has been at the heart of technological advances that have generated enormous benefits for the US economy, US defense capabilities, and consumers and enterprises around the world. It has also created benefits for China, whose technology industry has been able to use foreign semiconductor components

Few recognize the vast implications of materials science.To build today’s smartphone in the 1980s, it would cost about $110 million, require nearly 200 kilowatts of energy, and the device would be 14 meters tall, according to Applied Materials CTO Omkaram Nalamasu.That's the power of materials advances. Materials science has democratized smartpho

After close to 7 years of meeting in the depths of over 100 materials laboratories around the globe, one thing has become clear: the research, development, publications, and innovations that derive from materials science often form a core piece of the products, systems, and infrastructures of tomorrow. It’s a look into the futureHow can this

Technology is rapidly changing the way we work, but in many fields, people don’t seem ready for it. They can’t leave their comfort zones and explore the benefits of human-machine collaboration.It’s a thought I got from materials science and how materials scientists struggle to embrace change.With all the technology we have today, you’d say

Both climate change and population health suffer from solid science that is ill-understood by the general public. Both climate change and population health are under attack by the current political environment. As a science, they are currently seen as factual beds for easy appropriation by political groups for their own ends. Both can be easil

Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining Crain’s Health Pulse and several leading health care executives to discuss how telemedicine is transforming health care, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies show those adopting or intending to adopt telemedicine have nearly doubled from 27% to 51% this year alone. And&nbs

2016 was an exciting year of innovation and exploration in industrial automation. While the calendar year has now changed, the buzz throughout the industry has not. Major control industry suppliers are refining their longstanding offerings with the new technologies and, more importantly, nontraditional suppliers are entering the fray, leveraging th

DefinitionPLC is a Programmable Logic Controller. PLC is an industrial computer used as a standalone unit. It can be used in a PLC network to control a process or perform a specific function automatically. To get information from the outside world, such as the temperature of a liquid, level in a tank, speed of an object etc., it uses different conn

Industry 4.0 involves interconnecting all parts of a company and giving rise to effective automation resulting in a more intelligent organization. It is considered the fourth industrial revolution to the digitization phase of the manufacturing sector that was possible due to 4.0 technology. This process is driven by a surprising increase in data vo

Time is forever divided into before Covid and now, regardless of the topic, and the clean tech sector in Austin is no exception. As plans are created and implemented for economic recovery, there is a debate over how to stimulate the recovery in ways that are expedient for the immediate future and sustainable in the long term.In an opinion piec

Like many of you, I am working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and have limited my movement to an absolute minimum. Yet despite being in a high-risk self-isolating category, I am not isolated. I continue to be in ‘virtual’ touch with colleagues, customers, friends and family. We are hearing the stories of acquaintances who have contracte

Are you overlooking these ways to engage more patients remotely?The use of telehealth skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, as both patients and doctors rapidly adopted the technology to minimize exposure risk while maintaining patients’ health. Telemedicine will likely wane after the height of the pandemic, experts predict, but usage will re

The definition of quality in products and services has been evolving since the beginning of the industrial revolution. So have the methodologies of ensuring a desired and predictable outcome to any process. We’ve created a profession around it that has advanced from QC to QA to TQM to our current forms of quality management. With each iteration,

Innovations in science, manufacturing, and technology have led to the development of millions of products that we use every day. From pharmaceutical drugs to medical devices to consumer products, these products have fundamentally changed our lives and created industries worth trillions. A critical factor in creating, testing, and deploying such pro

The Human Genome Project, an international scientific cooperation on discovering the human genome, began in 1990. The goal of the undertaking was to identify the DNA sequence of the entire human genome. I was a medical student when the completion of the Human Genome Project was announced in 2003. I assumed, just like everyone else in the medic

My company, Go By Truck, recently pivoted to service the LTL (less-than-truckload) space and we’re proud of the help that we have been able to provide to small to mid-sized companies, particularly to those in the natural foods space.After working with a variety of organizations with organic food and beverage product lines, I’ve identified the t

It’s been a busy few weeks. Foodservice has been firefighting the impact of the hospitality shutdown on cashflows, assessing how changes will affect margins, and working to protect their supply chains. Now the dust is beginning to settle, the landscape is looking very different in the sector.For foodservice and wholesalers, a move to B2C means a

Within the next 30 years, we will be adding another 2 billion people to the global population. But it’s not just more mouths to feed, we are also seeing a fundamental shift in diets around the world. The population as a whole is becoming more prosperous, demanding higher quality foods, eating more prepared foods, and expecting to eat more pr

Packaging would be totally different in near future, researchers would find inconceivable innovation. As the trend of technology is increasing, the packaging is also at its boom. Now pathetic packaging is a matter of immense concern and alarm for all and sundry. New technological ways in packaging made it easier and easier to turn out the bulky sum

The Future Food System is a productive, zero-waste eco-system that mimics nature. A group of us spent an incredible Friday night with the no-waste advocate and visionary himself; Joost Bakker eagerly learning about the house’s sustainable concepts and systems. From learning how soil is the foundation of life, how wicking beds that harvest rainwat

Will restaurants and bars make a comeback after the coronavirus pandemic?As we head into week 4 of social distancing in the United States, there’s no doubt certain industries are being hit hard – or arguably obliterated beyond repair – in our country right now. One of those industries in the food service industry, specifically restaurants, fo

Who hasn’t felt nervous before an audit? There is so much pressure today on food safety professionals to accomplish successfully audits, especially when we have a big client requiring it or a Certification Body doing it. Most of us neglect the fact that audits should be perceived as one (more) powerful tool in the continuous improvement of our fo

Embracing foundational principles of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) will be one of the most powerful things an organization can do to put structure to its success. ERM is a “Risk Based” approach to operating your business that applies logic to overcoming obstacles and taking advantage of opportunities. Its ROI can be significant and its

The pandemic will be an inflection point to modernizing money worldwideWho would have imagined that it would take a global health crisis to shine a new light on the inadequacies of our payments systems? As the world turns to self-distancing to thwart the spread of COVID-19, it becomes increasingly clear how unsuitable cash, traditional POS and othe

1. Trends for contact center services#1. Omnichannel SupportOmni-channel support becomes much more important to call center success as consumers become accustomed to communicating usinseveral different methods. Some customers like to get answers to their questions over the phone. Some people prefer text-based communication such as email, text, and

In the last few years, the customer service industry has been upended by a combination of new pandemic-driven ways of working, the growing trend of digital transformation, and the continuously rising bar for positive customer service experiences. There are many new ideas, initiatives, and technologies flooding the market that aim to help the indust

When we talk about contact centers the focus is usually on customer service processes, but what is modern customer service? The traditional view is that it is a post-purchase interaction where a customer needs help in some way.But what about all the customer interactions that take place before the customer ever buys a product? Look at the social me

The changed world we’ve found ourselves living in since the global pandemic struck in 2020 has been particularly helpful to cybercriminals. Nothing illustrates this so well as the SolarWinds hack, described by Microsoft president Brad Smith as the most sophisticated cyberattack of all time, the reverberations of which have been felt throughout 20

The vital role that cybersecurity plays in protecting our privacy, rights, freedoms, and everything up to and including our physical safety will be more prominent than ever during 2020. More and more of our vital infrastructure is coming online and vulnerable to digital attacks, data breaches involving the leak of personal information are becoming

Cybersecurity used to exist in the realm of science fiction. Think retinal scans from Star Trek. I cut my teeth on Star Trek and I’m still holding out for a Tricorder during my lifetime.In the present, we live a hyper-connected life, with technology informing everything we do. We use smart devices like phones and watches. Our appliances are

Six thought-provoking trends for the future of CRM.We all know CRM’s story so far: its early promise, its hits and misses, and its broad adoption as an understanding of its role deepened.But what about the future of CRM? And not just in the next year, but the decade to come?These six trends are on the upswing in order from those in play toda

Recently, I published a couple of articles focused on micro SMEs (Small & Medium Business Enterprises) about digitization and which simple steps they should take first to get improve their business.Despite its usefulness, other than a few close connections, nobody bothered to read it. Why wasn’t it picked up? Obviously, hardly any SMEs use Li

In the fast-paced digital world, selling the best products, services play a significant role in a business; however, it doesn’t guarantee success. A company has to continuously serve customers well and build better relationships to stay in the market for long. In this article, we will be sharing top CRM trends for 2021 that companies should imple