The category recognises equipment built for the production floor. FloVision was selected in the seventh annual AgTech Breakthrough Awards, which cover agricultural and food technology worldwide.
August 20, 2026 — AgTech Breakthrough has named FloVision the winner of FoodTech Equipment of the Year in its 2026 awards program, recognizing innovation in agricultural and food technologies around the globe.
A production floor is a harder place to put a camera than most people assume. There is steam, water, cold, stainless everywhere, daily wash-down, and a line that cannot stop for experimentation. FloVision’s sensors are IP69K-rated and retrofit onto the conveyors and processing stations a facility already owns, so nothing new gets built and no line shuts down to install them.
Once mounted, the system inspects every piece at line speed. Trained on a facility’s own protein, cuts, and defects, it counts, classifies, and measures each piece, flags foreign material, and records what is driving yield and what is missing spec. Supervisors get an automated daily report by email and real-time feedback on the floor through stack lights, HMIs, and floor TVs — while there is still time in the shift to act on it.
Yield, giveaway, throughput, and defect rates roll up by line, shift, SKU, and supplier, from a single station to an enterprise dashboard covering every site. The numbers also move into the systems teams already use through FloVision’s API, with a full audit trail behind every one.
Each version has been shaped by the facilities running it and the teams on the floor who said what needed to change. Since the first production installs in 2022, the system has measured more than 220 million pounds of food, and customers have recovered up to 1.5% more yield and seen as much as 15x return.
“If you can see it, we can measure it — and that is what makes this the future of food,” said Rian Mc Donnell, co-founder and CEO of FloVision. “Our customers are recovering yield that used to walk out the door as waste, on the lines they already run. This recognition from AgTech Breakthrough means a lot to our team, and we will keep working with industry leaders on a blueprint for reducing waste and maximizing yield that is both financially and environmentally sustainable.”
Read the full announcement from AgTech Breakthrough.
About the AgTech Breakthrough Awards
Part of Tech Breakthrough, the AgTech Breakthrough Awards programme recognises excellence in agricultural and food technologies, services, companies, and products around the world, across categories including farm management, indoor farming, IoT and robotics, FoodTech, and analytics.
About FloVision
FloVision helps protein processors recover yield, catch defects and foreign material, and build staff skills. Compact AI sensors retrofit onto existing conveyors and processing stations, measure every piece at line speed, and give operators real-time feedback and a single dashboard across every line, shift, and site. Founded in 2020 and based in South Bend, Indiana, FloVision has processed more than 220 million pounds of food in beef, pork, and poultry facilities across three continents.