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Focus on OEE: Increased Plant Floor Visibility Pays Off

February 6, 2012
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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Be it ever so humble, overall equipment efficiency is the focus of a growing number of plant automation projects, adding another component to the continuous improvement tool kit.


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Truly the best experience will be ready for you this April in Fort Myers

February 6, 2012
By Joyce Fassl, Editor-in-Chief
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As many of you who read this column each month are well aware, Food Engineering’s Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference and Expo is held every year in Florida during April.


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Engineering R&D: Anaerobic collaboration

February 6, 2012
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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The combination of membrane bioreactor filtration with a zoned anaerobic digester resulted in unprecedented COD reductions in a cheese plant’s high-strength effluent.


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General Mills has expanded its Worldwide Innovation Network (G-WIN) open innovation program.

General Mills expands innovation network

January 12, 2012
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General Mills has expanded its Worldwide Innovation Network (G-WIN) open innovation program to include digital marketing.
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A new digital world of information is ready

January 10, 2012
By Joyce Fassl, Editor-in-Chief
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Over the past few months, we’ve been actively working to provide our readers with a much more  compelling and interactive online experience.


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Plant Security: Thwarting the Intent to Harm

January 10, 2012
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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Deliberate acts of sabotage can be more difficult to detect and prevent than bacterial threats to food. Food manufacturers now are bolstering their defenses against security threats.


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Magnetic attraction

January 10, 2012
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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The power of magnetic waves is evident to any Boy Scout with a compass. A Dutch firm is applying amplified magnetic force to the task of peeling an onion


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Cyber-Security Guidelines for Industrial Ethernet

December 6, 2011
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As manufacturers increase connectivity between plant floor and enterprise systems to boost productivity and reduce time to market, this interconnectivity can also bring undesirable security risks. ODVA (Open Device-Net Vendors Association) released a document that provides guidelines on how to minimize these risks.
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Supply Chain: Demand-driven production

December 5, 2011
By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor
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Mastery of the supply chain can yield tremendous cost savings for food companies, but only if production is aligned with what will sell in the months ahead.
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Tech Update: Packaging Machine Controls

December 5, 2011
By Wayne Labs, Senior Technical Editor
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Teaching packaging machines to communicate. Thanks to open standards, packaging machine controls communicate up and down the line and with MES and ERP systems to provide key performance data.
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