Case Study: Impossible Foods achieves food safety and scalable production with Samsara

Impossible Foods - Customer Case Study

Impossible Foods, the maker of the Impossible Burger, rapidly scaled from a single Oakland facility to distribution in thousands of restaurants and planned grocery rollouts, creating a critical need to document and enforce food-safety, quality, and compliance controls across production. As volume grew, the company faced challenges verifying packaging and printed lot/best‑by information, maintaining precise refrigeration and equipment health, and automating inspections to ensure consistent product quality and traceability.

Impossible deployed Samsara machine-vision cameras, temperature and environmental sensors, vibration monitors, and machine-health tools tied to a real‑time dashboard and alerting system. The solution automated packaging and date/lot verification, sent immediate alerts for temperature or equipment issues, reduced waste by enabling fast technician response, improved uptime, and gave quality teams visibility and statistics to support safe, scalable production.

Impossible Foods

Josh Ballard

Technical Manager