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Recall Prevention and Planning

October 4, 2012
By Olin Thompson, Contributing Editor
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A food safety plan starts with prevention, but must also include the actions to take should an incident occur.
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GS1 Standards: Streamlining the global supply chain

June 8, 2012
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Use of GS1 standards reduces both supply chain disruptions and time-to-shelf by an average of two to six weeks.


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Legacy Systems: Weighing the Costs, Benefits and Risks

October 1, 2011
By Olin Thompson, Contributing Editor
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Most replacement systems will, or at least should, provide marginal benefits over your legacy system.
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Multifunctionality Delivered

June 1, 2011
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Track & trace systems can do more than satisfy regulators; they can improve products, operations and relationships with customers and consumers.
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Navigating the Data Sea

October 1, 2006
By Olin Thompson, Contributing Editor
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Food and beverage processors are striving to collect more and better data. But is your data gathering system doing the job you need?
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Does MES contribute to ERP success?

October 1, 2006
By Olin Thompson, Contributing Editor
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ERP offers improvements but MES may take plant performance one step further.
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On a need-to-know basis

April 4, 2006
By Olin Thompson, Contributing Editor
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What do you need to know and when do you need to know it? A knee-jerk response might be that you need to know everything about your plant and you need to know it in real time. But in reality, fast data collection simply for data collection's sake won't save you money or improve your efficiency.
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Plant excellence, by the numbers

January 7, 2006
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How do you define excellence? Long runs, high capacity utilization and low production cost?
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Mobile computing

September 29, 2005
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Going where the data is.
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Improving product consistency

August 31, 2005
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Combining ingredient quality and inventory data can help increase plant efficiency.
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