Articles Tagged with ''engineering''

Engineering R&D

A novel way to clean wastewater streams

Living bacteria gobble up waste and turn it into water and electricity

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

March 29, 2021

Aquacycl used bacteria to clean up a wastewater stream and generate enough electricity to run the system and produce clean water.

The Allpax automated retort system featuring shuttle car transport and rigid chain loader/unloader, shown here, removes workers from the laborious and injury prone activity of pushing heavy baskets, top right, to and from and into and out of a retort.

Retort design improvements

Retort loading/unloading system removes the push-pull chain drive

A real engineering improvement, Allpax’s new design is simpler, requires fewer periodic adjustments and reduces parts wear

Wayne Labs

May 21, 2020

Real engineering improvements make things simpler to operate and maintain

Engineering

Three ways production engineers can prioritize problems

Whether you make widgets or food, you have to balance maintenance and production to get high-quality products out the door

Jessica Wettstein

June 7, 2019

Production engineers have two competing priorities throughout the year. One is to support the maintenance engineering department, and the other is to integrate new products into the plant and packaging line. This kind of segmented planning can be very confusing and often puts production engineers in a bind. How can they organize these competing tasks to achieve a more effective workflow?

Manufacturing News

Solving the tech skills problem

Programs aim to provide more technical training for needed skills

Wayne Labs

July 5, 2018

There is a real shortage of engineers and technicians. But there is light at the end of the tunnel.

PMMI certificate tests form the core of DOL national apprenticeship guidelines for mechatronics

Jeremy Gerrard

January 6, 2015

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, said the US Department of Labor approved its mechatronics certificate tests as the foundation for mechatronics technician apprenticeships around the country.

Manufacturing News

The empathetic 21st-century engineer

Wayne Labs

November 5, 2014

While Dr. Frankenstein brought life to his creation, the result wasn’t exactly a warm, compassionate, empathetic being.

Bosch Community Fund gives $100,000 in STEM education grants

Jeremy Gerrard

July 17, 2014

Robert Bosch LLC and Bosch Rexroth Corporation awarded its most recent Bosch Community Fund grants to support educational institutions in Pennsylvania.

TECH FLASH

Program encourages children to pursue engineering careers

ABB launches STEM exhibit in Raleigh to embrace science and engineering.

Jeremy Gerrard

June 11, 2014

Children’s hands-on engineering learning experience opens at museum after $1 million grant from ABB.

Join Lynn Dornblaser, Client Advisor at Mintel, and Alyse Thompson-Richards, Editor-in-Chief of FOOD ENGINEERING, as they break down the 2026 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies and discuss the factors affecting this year’s rankings.