The Latest From Laminar

On the Line Ep. 1: Peak Sauce & CIP Bottlenecks
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March 26, 2026

On The Line Ep. 5: AI and Machine Learning for Quality Control in F&B Manufacturing

Mercan Ulutas
Machine learning isn't replacing quality assurance in food & beverage manufacturing — it's giving QA teams the real-time process intelligence to go from reactive to predictive.
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March 23, 2026

Clean-in-Place Optimization in Flavors and Fragrances Manufacturing

Lulu Smith
Business Development Representative
Most flavors and fragrances facilities clean longer than they need to — and they know it. See the real cost of CIP waste.
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March 17, 2026

On The Line Ep. 4: Co-Manufacturing in F&B

Mercan Ulutas
More SKUs mean more cleaning time and fewer production hours — a tension every F&B co-manufacturer experiences. Here's the operational pressure that comes with more cleaning hours.
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March 13, 2026

Running 100 Flavors a Day: Why Rapid Changeovers Are the Biggest Bottleneck

Sanjay Rajan
Head of Go-to-Market
With shifting consumer demand, food and beverage plants now run hundreds of SKUs per line. Rapid changeovers have become the bottleneck—driving product loss, longer cleaning cycles, and lost capacity.
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March 10, 2026

On the Line Ep. 3: The Clean-Label Impact on F&B Manufacturing

Mercan Ulutas
Shift in consumer demand for fresh, minimally processed food is reshaping how F&B manufacturers operate — ingredients going into clean label must be provable down to the lot number.
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March 5, 2026

On the Line Ep. 2: Factory Floor to Founding Laminar

Mercan Ulutas
Laminar's co-founder Annie grew up on the factory floor — and came back to reinvent it. This is the origin story behind the world's most widely deployed self-optimizing clean-in-place solution.
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March 4, 2026

Conductivity Tells You One Thing. Impedance Tells You Everything

Jens Hoefflin
Hardware Engineer
One conductivity number can only tell you so much. Learn where it falls short — and how impedance spectroscopy gives you a richer picture of what's in your pipes.
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February 26, 2026

On the Line Ep. 1: Peak Sauce & CIP Bottlenecks

Jacqueline Wasem
Director of Marketing
Factory managers reveal how SKU proliferation, CIP bottlenecks, water stress, and rising chemical costs are reshaping food & beverage manufacturing. Watch now.
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February 5, 2026

Clean in Place (CIP): The Complete Guide

David Lu
Laminar Co-Founder and CTO
What is clean in place? Learn CIP process types, chemicals, equipment, and system design. The complete CIP guide for food, beverage, dairy, and pharma manufacturing.
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