Engineering Approach in Beverage Industry

Abstract The increasing consumer demand for packaged food and beverages is resulting into a tremendous demand to increase the industrial beverage processing and production capacities, all over the globe. To increase the processing capacity of a beverage industry, there are several engineering tools required to be understood, followed, and managed by the production engineers and the industry in-charges. The selection of appropriate engineering tool will result in efficient processing capacity of the industry. Hence, this chapter is designed for the beverage industry engineers and for any aspiring food processing engineer who holds the aspiration of processing and producing packaged beverages with the best of their capacity. The current chapter explains several aspects of engineering tools to be utilized in a beverage industry. It includes several equipment and engineering techniques to be the implemented in beverage manufacturing process.