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10 Nov 2022

Bright Engineering Consultants Wins Service Provider Award at 2022 SA Premier's Food and Beverage Industry Awards

We are thrilled to announce that Bright Engineering Consultants has been awarded the prestigious Service Provider Award (under 15 FTEs) at the 2022 South Australian Premier's Food and Beverage Industry Awards.

25 Oct 2021

Bright as Finalist in Food SA Awards - Again in 2021

The team at Bright were honoured and thrilled to be picked from a bunch of high calibre candidates as finalists in the Food SA Awards 2021 in the Service Provider Category.

28 Oct 2019

Gin Testing with Tim Boast from Never Never

Tim Boast, head distiller of Never Never delivered an in house gin tasting and education session for the team at Bright.

15 Oct 2019

Bright: a finalist in the SA Premier’s Food and Beverage Industry Awards 2019

Earlier this month, we received some very exciting news: Bright Engineering Consultants has been selected as a finalist in the South Australian Premier’s Food and Beverage Industry Awards for 2019!

23 Sep 2019

International Congress on Food (ICEF13) - Keeping up with technology

Peter and Anton attended the International Congress on Engineering and Food in Melbourne in September 2019.

The awards ceremony, held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, celebrated the achievements and innovations of the food and beverage industry in South Australia. The judges praised our ability to adapt and innovate, particularly during the challenging times of the past few years. This recognition is a testament to our commitment to providing state-of-the-art solutions and exceptional service to our clients.

This year's award is particularly significant as it marks our continued recognition within the industry. In 2021, we were proud finalists, and this year, we have taken it a step further by winning the award. Our focus on innovative technologies, such as 3D modelling within point clouds and augmented reality, has been instrumental in providing significant cost savings and enhancing the clarity of complex information for our clients.

Our success is not just about technology; it’s about people. We have continued to grow and develop our team, promoting internally and recruiting specialists to support our expanding business. Our strategic partnerships have strengthened our flexible workforce, ensuring we can meet the diverse needs of our clients.

Participation in industry bodies such as Food South Australia, Engineers Australia, IChemE, BusinessSA, the Dairy Industry Association, and the Winery Engineers Association keeps us at the forefront of industry developments. These engagements provide us with opportunities to lead and contribute to the broader body of knowledge within our sector.

From being regular attendees at FoodSA Gala nights to now winning the Service Provider Award, our journey has been one of growth and innovation. We are grateful to our clients, partners, and the judges for this recognition. We extend our congratulations to all the winners and finalists and look forward to continuing our journey of excellence and innovation in the food and beverage industry.

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Bright a Finalist in the Service Provider award category, 2021 SA Premier's Food and Beverage Industry Awards

It is with delight that we share the news that we have been selected as finalists in the SA Premier's Food and Beverage Industry Awards, in the Service Provider category (under 15 FTEs).

The theme for 2021 has been 'Turning the Page' and acknowledges the challenges faced over the last 18 months by our industry and indeed the world. The judges noted our ability to embrace the learnings and future opportunities which have come out of these circumstances while we have continued to be in stride with our vision as being the Industry's trusted partner delivering state of the art solutions to our clients.

This year's selection is particularly special as it is our second time as a finalist. We were grateful for the judges' feedback in the 2019 Awards as it provided wisdom and guidance which we have taken on board. In 2019 we were recognised for our team culture, innovating thinking and technologies and diversity of people and knowledge and the continuous improvement focus for areas for development, and we believe this was a very solid foundation on which to keep developing our business.

At the time of the 2019/20 Awards, we could not have possibly anticipated how the world would change and we are particularly grateful that our business grew 25% since last year. We have seen the impact of the pandemic on our industry first hand, and we were lucky that our combined skill set and ability to adapt to the needs of our clients has helped this growth.

One area we are passionate about is innovative technologies such as 3D modelling within point clouds and augmented reality. With these technologies we have been able to create significant cost savings to our clients by being able to visually explain complex concepts. Specifically, travel costs, number of visits, reducing error rates, and clarity of presenting complex information have all been areas where our investment in software, specialised equipment and upskilling has paid off for our clients.

Over the last year, we have also invested in our own artificial intelligence powered, CNC controlled, IoT viewable agricultural setup, which we're setting up alongside other equipment in our test lab. We've also set up our own mobile industrial computer with a full suite of process instrumentation which, at the time of writing, is monitoring an exiting water treatment installation at a client site, to give us accurate data on which we can base our system upgrade design.

After 5 years of continued growth, we have consolidated and restructured this year, ready for the next stage of controlled growth. We have introduced a General Manager to improve our business systems, promoted staff internally and recruited a specialist position, integrated strategic partnerships to boost our flexible workforce, and worked with our business services providers (IT, legal, accounting) to ensure they can support the next phase of Bright's existence.

Immersion in and contribution to our industry ensures we not only keep up with cutting edge technologies used across our sector, but are provided with opportunities to lead some of these. Involvement with industry bodies such as FoodSA, Engineers Australia, IChemE, BusinessSA, the Dairy Industry Association, and the Winery Engineers Association also ensure we stay current, collaborative and that we contribute to the body of knowledge and interconnectedness across our diverse sectors.

From our early involvement with FoodSA as regular Gala night attendees to now being a Finalist for the second time, we once again look forward to this year's event. We wish our fellow finalists the best of luck - and look forward to catching up and celebrating all of our combined achievements in this industry which we love.

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Tim Boast is the ‘Head Distiller and Guerrilla Distiller’ at Never Never Distillery. Tim’s passion and knowledge about gin is grounded from a very long family history dating back to his great, great, great grandmother in Scotland, and he shared his journey from his previous life in finance to his current one in distilling with us with a good deal of humour along the way.

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Never Never provided an information and tasting session to the whole team after Sophia completed the Hazardous Area Classification for their new distillery and bar! Being on the ‘tasting’ end of food and wine production is one of the real perks of our job, and makes Bright quite an enjoyable place to work.

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Earlier this month, we received some very exciting news: Bright Engineering Consultants has been selected as a finalist in the South Australian Premier’s Food and Beverage Industry Awards for 2019!

We’re thrilled to have been selected in the Service Provider category and to be recognised alongside so many of the South Australian food and beverage companies we love—and love to work with!

Now that we’ve had some time to process the good news (and clear away the celebratory snacks), we wanted to take a moment to express our sincere and enthusiastic thanks to everyone who has supported us on our journey so far. From the first day we opened our doors in Adelaide in 2016, we’ve been blessed to work with some absolutely phenomenal clients in South Australia and around the country. We’re proud to say that among them are many of our state’s iconic manufacturers.

Bright has been a member of Food South Australia for as long as we’ve been around. Their ethos of ‘feeding connections’ has strengthened our understanding of the local food and beverage landscape, and the networks that we’ve formed as a result have been invaluable. By working with South Australian industry leaders, we’ve been able to focus on the specific needs of our local producers, allowing us to deliver solutions that support this important industry and prepare for its exiting future.

Our vision is to inspire state-of-the-art manufacturing for the creation of food and beverages. We strive to bring innovation and best practice to everything we do. To realise our vision, we’ve expanded our team, our offerings, and our equipment. Over the years, we’ve continuously improved our professional practices and technologies, and have focused heavily on adding value and achieving better outcomes for our clients. In 2019, the theme of the South Australian Premier’s Food and Beverage Industry Awards is ‘leading the future’, and we could think of no better time for Bright Engineering Consultants to engage with the awards.

The gala dinner—held to celebrate the individuals and businesses recognised by the awards—is an event our team have thoroughly enjoyed attending every year. The calibre of finalists we see at the dinner is always extraordinary, and it makes us exceptionally proud that this year we are amongst them. Our hearty congratulations go out to all our fellow finalists, especially those keeping us company in the Service Provider category. We wish everyone the best of luck and look forward to celebrating with you all on the night!

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Peter and Anton attended the International Congress on Engineering and Food in Melbourne in September 2019. This conference showcases the pinnacle of modern technology and research and is held every four years in countries around the world. Attending events like this is important to Bright, as it keeps us up to date with the latest in current and future technologies, as well as giving us a chance to speak with other professionals leading their areas of speciality.\n

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We attended a number of presentations on energy efficiency, increasing processing capability, implementing industry 4.0, and emerging technologies utilising high frequency electrical inputs, microwaves and plasma.\n

We also attended sessions and saw producing using sustainable materials and packaging.\n

Many of the sessions across the congress touched on common themes of equipment and processes that are being developed to optimise fresh food lifespan.\n

We came away with better knowledge of available technologies and their applications and limitations as well as some good contacts to expand our network.\n

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