Meat Industry 4.0: A Distant Future?

The meat industry had experienced a significant transformation over the past century and more so over the past 25 years. • Automation can now be seen in both primary and secondary processing of meat, but implementation depends on factors such as cost, and availability of a labor force. • Currently, there is accelerated development in areas such as machine vision and robotics to replace more manual operations in meat processing plants. • We already see smart meat factories, where conductivity and information are used to control certain operations.