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Complying with FSMA for pet food manufacturing

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

September 17, 2019

Bad news first: If you make pet food, have an older facility and have been putting off examining your operation in light of FSMA, rushing to comply with the new food safety rules for animal foods is probably proving to be a challenge.

Pack Expo

Pack Expo Preview: Tackling common robotics concerns

Sean Riley

September 15, 2019

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up much of the food industry, have been hesitant to invest in robotics solutions. However, there are many reasons for companies to reconsider.

HPP: Equipment, Trends and the Science Behind the Technology

With roots in food safety and shelf-life goals, high pressure processing is relatively young but growing in the industry

Sharon Spielman

September 15, 2019

High pressure processing is growing rapidly as a way to make food safe without heat and keep it tasting and looking its best longer.

Plant of the Year

One week left to submit for the 2020 Food Engineering Plant of the Year award

Submissions due by Dec. 13

Casey Laughman

September 9, 2019

Submissions are now open for the 2020 Food Engineering Plant of the Year.

The 2019 Top 100 Food & Beverage Companies

More than half the top 100 change places, but Nestlé stays No. 1

Jules Scully

September 9, 2019

Food Engineering’s annual ranking of the 100 largest food and beverage companies in the world, exclusively sponsored by CRB.

Yaskawa Motoman's Smart Series robots and controllers

Packaging

How to avoid dreaded packaging downtime

Better design leads to improved uptime

Rose Shilling

September 9, 2019

Keeping your packaging machines running can be a tricky task, but better design leads to improved uptime.

Automation

PLCs, PACs and IPCs: Skip the IIoT acronym and get on with business

PLCs, IPCs and PACs have always been networked, so what role does IIoT really play in the overall manufacturing environment?

Wayne Labs

September 5, 2019

In a Tech Update feature headlined “PLCs/PACs: Keys to the IIoT kingdom,” we looked at programmable controllers (PLCs), programmable automation controllers (PACs) and to some extent industrial PCs (IPCs), the latter of which can certainly be applied to most any level of control—e.g., discrete, PID, batch, etc. We considered new functionality in today’s controllers, internal operating systems, I/O capabilities, security and networking—both at the fieldbus/controls level (OT) and IT-side connections.

Industry News

Hershey to acquire ONE Brands

The acquisition extends the company's position as a snacking leader with the line of low-sugar, high-protein bars

Wayne Labs

August 29, 2019

The Hershey Company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ONE Brands, LLC, the maker of low-sugar, high-protein nutrition bars. The acquisition is expected to enable Hershey to provide a competitive offering in the nutrition bar category.

Production optimization

Optimize scheduling systems based on real-world inputs

You plan your next production run for a holiday favorite, and then a huge, need-it-yesterday order comes in. Is there any solution to this problem?

Wayne Labs

August 21, 2019

You may have a scheduling module within your ERP system, and it’s good at what it does. But it’s not clairvoyant.

Hygiene

Advanced instrumentation technologies provide versatility in food and beverage applications

As more advanced instruments are available with hygienic configurations, processors find new ways to use these capabilities to improve plant performance

Joshua Friesz

August 19, 2019

In the food and beverage industry, any process instrument used for temperature, pressure, flow or level measurement that contacts product must meet hygienic requirements designed to provide cleanable surfaces and avoid areas capable of retaining contaminants or facilitating bacteria growth. These rules exist for good reason, but until recently machinery and process designers had to settle for workable but basic instrumentation due to the limited configurations available for meeting sanitary requirements.

On Demand Kelley Rodriguez, Editor in Chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods, will be joined in this 60-minute webinar by industry experts to help unpack the latest research.

On Demand Driven by climate goals, business risk, client interest, and resilience considerations, food and beverage companies are increasingly turning their attention to decarbonizing their production processes.