The Food & Beverage industry is a core industry ensuring food safety and quality. Its core value lies in ensuring the stability, efficiency and compliance of production processes through accurate measurement of flow parameters of various food and beverage media, while providing reliable data basis for production cost accounting and precise formula control. In terms of medium characteristics, the covered medium types are extremely rich, mainly including drinking water, fruit juice, dairy products, alcohol, edible oil, syrup, sauce, etc. Such media are mostly clean liquids, some containing viscous components such as sugar and protein, with a wide viscosity range (from low-viscosity water to high-viscosity syrup), and the temperature is mostly normal to medium temperature, putting forward strict requirements for the hygiene, accuracy and viscosity resistance of flow measurement equipment.
The relevant factory types or unit types covered by this industry focus on the entire production chain of food and beverage, mainly including beverage processing, dairy product production, baked food processing and other fields. Different types of factories and units have differentiated demands for flow measurement equipment due to differences in production processes and medium characteristics (such as viscosity and hygiene requirements). In terms of commonly used flow equipment, the mainstream equipment includes electromagnetic flowmeters (suitable for low-viscosity clean liquids, such as drinking water and fruit juice), turbine flowmeters (suitable for medium and low-viscosity liquids, such as edible oil and alcohol), Coriolis mass flowmeters (suitable for high-viscosity and high-precision requirement media, such as syrup and sauce), etc.; supporting valves include sanitary butterfly valves, ball valves, globe valves, etc. Both these valves and flowmeters need to meet food-grade hygiene standards, and their combined use can achieve precise control and regulation of the flow of food and beverage media, ensuring the smooth operation of the production process and stable product quality. In addition, with the advancement of intelligent food processing, intelligent flow measurement equipment with sanitary design and data traceability functions has gradually become the mainstream, further improving the industry’s automated management level and food safety guarantee capability.