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Green Series

Stop the leaks before they stop your business

Wayne Labs

February 5, 2015

Leaks. They’re everywhere, and they’re insidious, sucking energy from your assets and robbing your bottom line.

Fabulous Food Plant

Fabulous food plant: Chelten House heads west to meet market demand

Locating a new facility in Las Vegas had excellent odds, including cutting transportation costs and finding a committed workforce.

Wayne Labs

December 4, 2014

Chelten House Products is a fourth-generation, family-owned business that has provided great-tasting, high-end pasta sauce and salsa products for food retailers for more than 40 years.

Plant Renovations

Renovate for the right reasons

Wayne Labs

November 5, 2014

You’ve received a less-than-stellar audit as you’re preparing for GFSI accreditation—not a good sign that your facility will also pass FSMA muster

Response from UK engineering company aids Iraqi refugees

Jeremy Gerrard

August 21, 2014

Affected by the growing number of refugees without food or water in Iraq, the president of Azersun, the leading food producer in Azerbaijan, has fully funded a rapid cooking system built by UK-based engineering firm Olympus Automation (OAL).

Hackathon focuses on future of sustainable meat

TECH FLASH

Automation center addresses Michigan’s needs

The center in southeast Michigan offers affordable product lifecycle management (PLM) technologies training to local business leaders, employees, students and individuals

Jeremy Gerrard

July 29, 2014

Automation Alley partners with Tata Technologies to offer classes.

Field Reports

Redesigned filter solves winery production lag

The old filter clogged easily, requiring frequent cleaning and producing a lot of downtime.

July 7, 2014

Royal Wine Corporation is a leader in the kosher wine and beverage industry.

Plant Construction

37th Annual Plant Construction Survey: Hygienic design for safe food

Wayne Labs

June 9, 2014

As FSMA gels, processors are concerned about safe food and plants while stepping up product output with the same energy inputs.

Two bulk and three bag packaging lines accurately fill 25- or 50-lb. bags or 2,000-lb. totes before sealing, labeling and palletizing. Photo by Candy Padilla.

Plant of the Year

Plant of the Year 2014: Excellence and efficiency at Blue Diamond

Mikell Knights

April 8, 2014

Built from a foundation of emerging collaboration tools and a unique, cross-functional, interdisciplinary approach, Blue Diamond Growers achieves its manufacturing goals with its new “dream” plant.

Buhler Aeroglide's hygienically designed dryer has an open frame design, which uses a formed channel with a minimum surface finish of 32 Ra, 2B SS.

Sanitary Equipment Design

Wayne Labs

April 8, 2014

Depending on the application and the country, design rules and standards can vary, causing headaches for machine builders as they try to make designs more universal.

TECH FLASH

Cool energy waste in your refrigeration systems!

Energy audits can spot potential waste and provide short-term fixes, but a refrigeration energy management system can keep temperatures and costs cool.

Wayne Labs

November 25, 2013

A modular energy management system can keep a facility’s cooling costs under control.