The Food Tech Podcast

In most production facilities, collecting data has never been easier. Sensors measure temperature, flow, pH, and pressure around the clock. And yet, for many dairy producers, the gap between collecting data and acting on it remains wide, because there is a step that often gets skipped: validating that the numbers being collected are actually right. In this episode of the Food Tech Podcast, we talk...

It starts the same way in almost every plant. A small team, a good product, growing demand. Someone builds an Excel sheet to track orders. Then another for recipes. Then one more for raw materials. Before long, the entire operation runs on spreadsheets, manual counts, and tribal knowledge. In this episode, Erik Søndergaard and Lars Linnet join the FoodTech Podcast to walk through what it actually...

We all know the image. Bottles racing through the line at full speed. Conveyors packed. Motors humming. It looks efficient. But when you step onto real production floors, the picture is very different. Belts run empty. Pumps throttle instead of slowing down. Motors consume energy even when nothing moves. In this episode, Gregors Geilager from Danfoss Drives joins the Food Tech Podcast to explain w...

What happens to your production when the power flickers, a server reboots at the wrong moment or a firewall rule opens a door you did not know existed? In this episode, Erik Søndergaard joins The Food Tech Podcast to unpack operational resilience in food and beverage production. From power drops and UPS age to backups, segmentation and NIS2, Erik explains how to think about uptime like an insuranc...

AI is everywhere, but turning it into real outcomes in dairy and food processing is where the value is. In this episode, Anna Olsson, co-founder of Intelecy (a no-code platform for industrial AI), cuts through the hype to show what plants can do today: predict failures before they happen, optimize processes in real time, and capture expert know-how so it scales across sites. If you run operations,...

How important is data in modern dairy production, and how do you turn it into real outcomes on the factory floor? In this episode, we talk with Erik Vedfald, Chief Architect for Production IT at Arla. Erik explains why quality beats quantity in data and what it takes to move from proofs of concept to trusted tools operators actually use. We discuss sensors, governance, UX and the long game of prep...

How can tweaking milk fat content by just 0.15% unlock huge savings – even for smaller dairies? This week, we sit down with Michael Sievers from FOSS, who has spent three decades shaping the future of dairy automation. He reveals how FOSS inline sensors now measure around 80% of the world’s milk, and also how that data helps dairies boost yield, cut waste, and put real money back in the business....

How can medium-sized dairies extract more value from every liter of raw milk? In this episode, we talk with Jesper Kjeldal, Sales Director at MMS Nordic and a specialist in membrane filtration. He explains how modern separation technologies not only reduce waste but also open up new opportunities to tailor the composition of milk, including lactose, minerals, and proteins, to specific products and...

Curious about the latest technologies in Food & Beverage processing? In The Food Tech Podcast, we give you the latest trends, technologies, and automation knowledge that will accellerate your production process. See you on the inside.