Separators Inc.

The average tenure of a plant maintenance employee has dropped from roughly 13 years a decade ago to about 8 years today. And it's getting harder to hire, with an anticipated 1.9 million unfilled jobs possible by 2033 due to skills gaps. 

At Separators, we like sharing our hard-won knowledge and automated centrifuge insights with our clients. That’s why we prodded one of our veteran automation engineers for some insights into why he thinks automation will continue to play a vital role in dairy production facilities.

About 150 years ago, mechanized centrifugal cream separators hit the milk processing industry. People’s minds were blown. The technology flew off the shelves, and the dairy world exploded. 

Since then, the dairy industry has been able to grow at an unprecedented rate, and people have been wondering: what’s the next big innovation? What’s the next truly game-changing technology that will streamline industrial dairy processing?

Enter automation.