Episode 4: How Humanoids Will Shape Food Safety and Food Manufacturing

Talk title: Episode 4: How Humanoids Will Shape Food Safety and Food Manufacturing Food safety in manufacturing has traditionally been managed through controls, SOPs, and automation. However, as food operations grow more complex—with greater product variety, more SKUs, smaller batches, and frequent changeovers—this model is being pushed to its limits. Increasing operational variability makes it more difficult to maintain consistent food safety performance through controls alone, while adding additional checks often increases complexity—without addressing the root causes of instability in plant execution. This webinar explores why the next stage of food safety improvement may require a structural shift in manufacturing execution. Dr. Ozan Ozaskinli will discuss how humanoid robotics and advanced automation could reduce variability in manual processes, improve consistency across shifts, and help create a more stable operational environment for food safety and quality. Attendees will also gain insight into how robotics and artificial intelligence can work together—humanoids supporting physical execution on the production floor, and AI enhancing line efficiency, quality monitoring, and food safety decision-making. Key Learning Objectives: • Understand why increasing operational complexity is challenging traditional food safety control models • Explore how humanoid robotics could reduce variability in manual food manufacturing processes • Learn how AI and robotics can work together to improve operational efficiency, quality monitoring, and food safety outcomes • Discover why embedding food safety principles into automation design will be critical for the future of food manufacturing