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Volume 5, Number
22

"Wait until it breaks" not a good maintenance
strategy
Food and beverage
processors who wait until assets break can get
caught with no spare parts and hours of
downtime. Planning a successful maintenance
strategy depends on the cooperation of
all--engineering, operations and corporate. Here
are some tips.

Energy savings, a brilliant
idea
US Foodservice's Lubbock,
TX facility changed out the old lighting
with new, efficient T7 bulbs. Though it had
already installed new energy-efficient
refrigeration compressors, it was the lighting
that commanded the lion's share of the
savings.

General Mills adds collaboration
tool
General Mills' G-WIN
innovation portal has added a new software
collaboration tool designed to match the
company's broad spectrum of technical challenges
with researchers, scientists and
inventors.

New
Mettler-Toledo Movie Demonstrates
Product
Inspection Capabilities

Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed and Mettler-Toledo
Safeline have introduced a new 3-minute movie on
their checkweigher, metal detector and x-ray
inspection capabilities that will boost your
profits and protect your brand.
View
the
movie.

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EtherCAT plugs into
US
EtherCAT, which is well
suited to robotics and motion control, is
being tested in the US. The first
interoperability group met in Austin, TX at
the EtherCAT Plug Fest.

Real-time fieldbus moving faster in
Europe
The market for real-time
fieldbus networks is expected to make gains in
Europe as manufacturers look for systems with
intelligent sensors and actuators that provide
sensor signals and maintenance data.

Putting a robot to work
When
humans can't keep up with the workload, it's
time to give the job to an untiring robot. A
welding robot completes 14 pieces in one hour
compared to a human's output of 4 pieces per
hour. Good news: The humans kept their
jobs.

FDA changes direction on Vibrio vulnificus in
Gulf Coast oysters
FDA pulled
back a plan that would have demanded Gulf Coast
oyster harvesters to apply a pasteurization step
to raw oysters before distributing them in the
summer months.

Traceability interoperability key subject at
new forum
The Traceability
Institute will hold its first executive summit
to initiate consensus in achieving multi-system
interoperability with the goal of accomplishing
a more sustainable and safer US supply
chain.

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