Food and Beverage Manufacturing Top Stories - Articles - Page 188

Employee Engagement

Finding operational success via employee engagement

Employee satisfaction is paramount to maintaining a committed workforce, but an engaged employee—one who is enthusiastic about his or her work and furthers the company’s interests—is key to unlocking excellence.

Jeremy Gerrard

August 4, 2016

For the food and beverage industry, attracting a skilled workforce has never been as important as now. It’s also never been as expensive.

Food Waste

Mintel: Shoppers want to reduce food waste

New report shows most U.S. shoppers think reducing food waste is as important as reducing packaging waste.

August 3, 2016

It turns out people actually care about food waste — or at least that’s what they say.

FSMA

USP's new Food Fraud Database aims to help with FSMA

The redesigned database is meant to provide brand protection, increase consumer trust.

August 3, 2016

Its goal is to help food manufacturers and retailers make informed decisions about ingredients in their portfolio that may have a greater potential of being adulterated.

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.