FOOD & BEVERAGE
INDUSTRY
Consumer behaviors and preferences for the food and beverage industry have been evolving dramatically over the past decade. From the movement for more natural ingredients to more discerning taste palettes, food and beverage manufacturers are striving to improve product quality controls across the manufacturing process.
DIGITAL OLFACTION
CAN BE USED FOR
Reduce Cost
of Quality
- Enable objective odor standardization for fully manufactured products
- Ensure odor defects are not transferred from packaging materials to products
- Control olfaction quality for more consistent customer experiences

Ensuring Raw
Material Quality
- Ensure the consistency of raw materials during delivery
- Provide objective olfaction data comparisons between shipments and suppliers
- Detect counterfeit materials and products

New
Product R&D
- Reduce development time by using olfaction data to characterize new formulations
- Track flavor transformation instantaneously with portable devices
- Provide objective data outside of traditional smell panels

USE CASES
- Cabin air quality continues to be a core focus in the automotive and mobility space—whether for shared or personal vehicles. In the case of shared car services (i.e. rentals, rideshare or carshare), ensuring a “clean” cabin speaks to the customer experience and ultimately overall brand trust.Read more
- As the flavored water market continues to grow, there is more competition in both brands and flavors available to consumers. Using digital olfaction can help deliver the right balance of flavor— both in product manufacturing and R&D formulation for new products — and positively impact customer acquisition and loyalty.Read more
- Food and beverage companies need a fast, objective way to classify vanillin suppliers as the supply chain becomes more complex for this popular flavor. Digital olfaction delivers odor analysis for different sources of vanillin and subtle differences between suppliers.Read more
OUR BLOG

Digital Olfaction is Improving Product Quality and Customer Experiences, Including Your Morning Coffee
Ever wonder how digital olfaction could impact the cup of coffee you’re drinking or help improve your cooking skills? Aryballe’s CEO Sam Guilaumé recently spoke with Owen Hughes, senior reporter at ZDNet…

Improving Cost of Quality with digital olfaction
Manufacturing operations are focused on minimizing Cost of Quality (COQ) as it can account for significant portion of their controllable costs. Much of the business intelligence and analytic solutions in this area have focused on process optimization and preventative...

Developing Norms and Standards for Digital Olfaction
We’ve seen rise of various digital olfaction devices, which aim to digitize and reproduce smells. Aryballe’s own digital olfaction device combines biochemistry, advanced optics and machine learning to mimic the human sense of smell. But we have a broader vision for our devices

How is COVID-19 Impacting New Technology Projects
COVID-19 has created an economic situation different from any previous crisis. The collective trauma of this global pandemic on our population has disrupted our economy, and is likely shifting many consumer and market trends going forward. A question remains, what...