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Food and beverage manufacturing operates under constraints that most other industries don't face. Your products expire. Your regulators show up unannounced. Your equipment touches what people eat. And when a production line goes down during a seasonal peak, the raw materials waiting in your cooler don't politely pause their biological clocks.

These constraints make food and beverage one of the most compelling use cases for industrial IoT — and one of the most underserved. Most IIoT platforms were built for automotive, aerospace, or heavy industry. They don't understand changeover frequencies, CIP cycles, cold chain requirements, or why a 2°F temperature deviation at 3 AM matters more than a 20°F deviation in a metal stamping plant.

This guide breaks down how IIoT specifically helps food and beverage manufacturers address their unique challenges — not in theory, but in the practical, measurable ways that justify the investment.

In pharmaceutical manufacturing, a deviation isn't just a quality issue — it's a regulatory event. Every out-of-specification reading triggers an investigation, potentially a CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action), and possibly a batch disposition decision that can write off millions of dollars in product. FDA warning letters, consent decrees, and import alerts have shut down facilities for years over preventable equipment and process failures. Industrial IoT provides the continuous monitoring that traditional periodic checks miss — catching deviations in minutes instead of hours, and enabling predictive equipment management that keeps validated systems running within their qualified parameters.