Smart Manufacturing – Potential of New Digital Technologies and Big Data in the Food Industry

New digital technologies are currently becoming one of the main sources of building a competitive advantage for enterprises. The Internet of Things and big data are opening the previously unknown possibilities for optimising production processes and improving the productivity. The speed, nature and scope of technological changes let us talk about the fourth industrial revolution. The chapter discusses chances related to the use of new digital technologies in the process of implementing the smart manufacturing concept in food industry enterprises. Attention is focused on the benefits of applying analyses of big data. What will be presented are the major types of data used in analyses of big data, characteristics of smart processing and areas for the possible application of digital solutions (inter alia, digital twins) in the food industry