The conditions and factors determining the need to develop technological innovations for food production in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation are considered. An innovative technology of separated cleaning and electro-hydraulic grinding of grains, electrocontact baking of bread and bakery products is proposed. The composition and principles of the combined device for grinding grain and bread production are disclosed. The principles of technological operations using technological equipment for the production of whole grain bread are formed. The directions of further research on food production, optimizing food storage are determined and recommendations are given on the food supply of the population in remote areas, as well as in emergency situations, natural disasters, and in quarantine conditions.

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The paper examines the problem of meat raw material curing in production of whole-piece meat products. The intensification methods for the process of penetration and distribution of curing ingredients throughout a product are described. Design of the equipment for meat tenderization URM-1 and URMP-1 is proposed, which ensure electrohydraulic tenderization of the structure of whole-piece (1500–2000 g) and portioned (80–120 g) meat semi-finished products and accelerate a process of brine distribution, which will allow reducing product strength characteristics by 51–53 kg/cm, reducing raw material losses, increasing labor productivity by 8–11%, shortening the duration of the technological process and reducing energy expenditure upon heat treatment by 18–20%. As a result of the experimental investigations, it was established that an electrohydraulic impact (frequency of pulses v = 0.5–1.0 pulse/sec., number of pulses from 150 to 200) can be used for tenderization of muscle connective tissue and tendons both of chilled (core temperature of 0 °C to 4 °C) and subfrozen (–2 °C to 3 °C) meat.

Technical complexity, service safety requirements, and uncertainty of building and functioning conditions cause the objective necessity to improve organizational and technological diagrams of designing transport infrastructure facilities. The developed schemes and methods of organization of projecting unique transport facilities should meet the required quality of projects at the limited value of initial data and the possibility to adjust the design solutions in the process of design tasks implementation. The paper deals with the development of a methodological approach to substantiating the organizational and technological diagrams for the design of unique transport structures using simulation models. This approach provides the possibility of modeling the work of design organizations, taking into account the dynamics of the input of initial information and its uncertainty, iteration and persistence of the processes of developing innovative design and technology solutions, time parameters of creation, and quality of project design depending on the designer skills, engineering risks, and other stochastic factors. The authors carried out the theoretical research of simulation model and design organizations functionality creation using the theory of deterministic and stochastic graphs with returns. During the study, the dependences of quality and design solution development time on the designer skills and initial information uncertainty are obtained. The authors propose the technique for transforming the information-logical schemas of design organizations work into stochastic models, the procedures of events generation and solution adjustment imitation, and the project groups’ formation. The study identified that it is possible to improve the reliability and safety of the unique transport facilities through the development of organizational and technological design diagrams, which consider the uncertainty, initial data dynamic nature, and designer skills.

The experience of advanced industries shows that at the current stage of the development of technologies, the effectiveness of investments in improving funds based on innovative developments is higher than investment in the new equipment. The high rates of obtaining new knowledges about the processes make it possible to ensure a high level of improvements and, thereby, to make the potentialities of innovative technical solutions more fully use. At the same time, the main sources of economic efficiency of innovation-based technological processes are: reducing the costs of energy resources, the cost of production and the loss of raw materials. The modern domestic flour milling industry belongs to the number of socially important branches of the national economy, since the products produced from flour are vital for all categories of the population. Because the flour production is resource intensive, and the quality and the cost of grain and products play a decisive role in its competitiveness, the introduction of innovative technologies in the production processes is becoming one of the main sources of growing the efficiency of a flour mill as a whole.