Food and Beverage Manufacturing Top Stories - Articles - Page 81

Automation, space driving vertical cold storage construction

The future of cold storage is looking up.

April 4, 2022

While market factors are driving rising demand for cold buildings, there are also practical reasons behind the need for newer, taller cold storage facilities.

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Stellar completes facility conversion and expansion for Beaver Street Fisheries

Work on the $4.9 million design-build project started in Spring 2021

March 29, 2022

Stellar has completed its renovation and expansion of the Beaver Street Fisheries, Inc. (BSF) seafood packaging facility in Jacksonville, Fla.

Smart sensors/transmitters provide not only sensor data, but maintenance data as well

Smart Instrumentation

Increase insights and efficiency with smart instrumentation

By analyzing available instrument data, processors can improve their operational efficiency while performing proactive maintenance to reduce costly downtime.

Ola Wesstrom

March 27, 2022

In the age of Industry 4.0, professionals in many industries are going to great lengths to identify production-enhancing insights from their data.

Lean Manufacturing

5 common mistakes to avoid while using lean manufacturing to improve efficiency

Understanding lean principles will foster a culture of continuous improvement

Bryan Christiansen

March 23, 2022

Every industry wants to improve their efficiency, reduce operating costs and increase operating margins. One proven way to achieve these goals is to embrace the principles of lean manufacturing.

Saving energy: Steam generators and retorts

Steam generators are efficient by design, but today’s retorts have improved efficiency, thanks to intelligent controls and ancillary equipment

Wayne Labs

March 22, 2022

Steam generators are known for their efficiency and saving energy, and retorts have been notorious users of steam. What have retorts done lately to save energy?

Field Report

The doughnut store that is a shop floor

Krispy Kreme uses Siemens drives and controls integrated by Think PLC automation consultants, making each store a high-tech doughnut manufacturing facility.

Sharon Spielman

March 9, 2022

From its early beginnings, the Krispy Kreme company has designed and built the proprietary machines that have given “rise” to their equally safeguarded doughnut recipe.

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Editor's Note

What’s in a Name?

Michael Costa

March 9, 2022

The cultivated meat industry is still in its infancy, and like many other burgeoning technologies—food or otherwise—the actual agreed-upon name for what the finished product will be called is being debated by those who make it.

Alternative Proteins

Cell-by date: The state of cultivated meat

Where the industry stands today and what barriers still exist for commercial-scale production.

Michael Costa

March 8, 2022

A snapshot of where cultivated meat stands in 2022, along with equipment and facilities needed to meet anticipated demand, and when initial products could finally reach the marketplace.

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Food Defense

Tools for building a robust food defense plan

Whether a processing plant falls under FSMA or FSIS, they should have an effective and efficient food defense plan suited to their facility.

Sharon Spielman

March 7, 2022

Looking for tools to help build a food defense plan?

Process Control

Your window to the process: Clear view or obstructed?

Today’s process control software is tasked to keep machine interfaces easy to configure for both engineers and operators

Wayne Labs

March 7, 2022

Chances are, you’ve probably been using the same HMI, MES or SCADA program for some time in your operation, and you’ve been through several version upgrades too. Providers of these products work hard to make their software backward compatible with equipment and operating systems as well as create new features users want.