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Preventive & Predictive Maintenance

CMMS: Get your maintenance on track

A computerized maintenance management system helps keep assets running and assists with meeting food safety audit requirements.

Wayne Labs

July 20, 2016

A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) can help food and beverage facility owners plan and schedule assets and labor to optimize overall plant efficiency and minimize downtime.

Replacement Parts & Components Trends Survey

14th Annual Replacement Parts Survey: Proactive inventory practices

Survey shows processors are increasingly using technology to take a closer look at inventory management.

Debra Schug

July 11, 2016

Food Engineering’s 2016 Replacement Parts and Components Trends Survey identifies the “who, what, why and how” of replacement parts purchasing, inventory maintenance, condition monitoring and related topics.

Food Safety

Manage recalls with the tools you already have

Wayne Labs

June 21, 2016

1990: Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of water due to benzene contamination. The brand never recovers its prior status.

winners of Plant of the Year Award on FA&M panel

Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference 2016

FA&M 2016: Evolving toward excellence

FA&M presenters urged processors to foster cultures that emphasize caring, food safety and information.

Debra Schug

June 14, 2016

At first, it might seem odd that many of the presentations during this year’s Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference focused on people.

Plant Construction Survey

39th Annual Plant Construction Survey: Projects peak as consumer demands grow

Wayne Labs

June 7, 2016

We thought we hit a peak when 2014’s total reportable food and beverage plant construction projects numbered 635. But, the number of construction projects recorded in 2015 is 9.29 percent greater and is the highest number in the last 10 years.

Automation Series

Employing data collection software

Wayne Labs

May 27, 2016

Remember the early days of data acquisition/collection systems?

Tech Update: Cooling & Freezing

Preserving quality and safety

As consumers demand food and beverage products made with fresher ingredients, refrigeration and freezing technology becomes more important.

Debra Schug

May 20, 2016

The clean label movement has been seeking and destroying artificial ingredients in food products for a number of years now.

Pest Control

Defend your plant from food pests

Now is the time to arm your facility with a better integrated pest management program.

Jeremy Gerrard

May 13, 2016

When it comes to pests, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan.

Continuous Improvement

Got waste? Check, analyze, plan, do!

Learn how to leverage the process and tools in your company to reduce waste to not only meet but exceed your customers’ expectations.

Craig Andrews

May 6, 2016

It’s not uncommon to experience frustration in the manufacturing world when things don’t go well, when costs are higher and quality is lower than you’d like and when you can’t seem to meet your customers’ requirements.