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Special Supplement: Site Selection

Setting your sites on solid ground

A litany of factors must be considered in selecting a new plant location, but the choice must ultimately facilitate your goals and business strategy.

Debra Schug

December 21, 2015

Whether a processor is moving on, moving up or moving out, choosing a new home for a plant must involve the consideration of several factors, such as utilities and water costs, access to transportation, labor availability, incentives and sustainability issues.

Tracking Systems

Where and how safe is your cargo?

Once your product leaves the shipping dock, what happens in the supply chain could negate all your efforts to make it food safe and the high-quality brand leader it is.

Wayne Labs

December 17, 2015

It’s 3:00 a.m. Do you know where your trailer of strawberries is?

Fabulous Food Plant

Starbucks brews up advanced technologies

Modern times call for modern processes, and Starbucks has invested in 21st-century facilities and equipment to produce a modern, soluble coffee that puts the old instants to shame.

Wayne Labs

December 17, 2015

When you think “instant coffee,” you may have memories that you’d like to forget.

New advancements in line efficiency, design

December 17, 2015

Butterball’s Corporate Project Manager Matt Giroux discusses line efficiency, technological advancements of line design, automation of lines and robotics on packaging lines.

Food Safety

Eliminating hygienic hazards

Smart planning and utilization of sanitary plant design principles can save processors time, money, embarrassment and even their businesses.

Debra Schug

November 25, 2015

By now, say the name Blue Bell, and the first thought in most people’s minds isn’t ice cream. The company just went through one of the biggest recalls in recent times due to potential contamination from Listeria monocytogenes.

What companies can do to prepare for the Preventive Controls for Human Food rule

November 19, 2015

Robert Brackett of Illinois Tech discusses the Food Safety Modernization Act, the Preventive Controls for Human Food rule and the ABCs of Food Safety.

Automation Series

Plant automation: Finding the right fit

Do what makes sense when installing automation in your facility, considering your budget and business goals. Understanding your application can help you fine-tune your equipment purchase.

Wayne Labs

November 19, 2015

While the trend for large manufacturers is to automate a new plant in its entirety, small and medium-sized food and beverage processors rarely have the funds to automate their plants, turning them into lights-out facilities. Even some tier-one processors may find areas in certain operations where it may not make sense to over-automate.

Green Series

Sustainable stars in food manufacturing

Five facilities are recognized for projects or programs that improve environmentally friendly efforts in food and beverage product manufacturing operations.

Debra Schug

November 12, 2015

On April 15 of this year, PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network presented the 2014 Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards (SEMA) during Food Engineering’s Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference in Clearwater Beach, FL.

Conveyors & Belting

Advantageous connections

Economic conditions, technological innovations and food safety mandates are changing the designs of conveyors and conveyor belting.

Jaan Koel

November 5, 2015

Conveyors and the belts that run on them, whether they are polymer, metal, hybrid or fiber, connect raw material reception, processing, packaging, palletizing, accumulation, final delivery and a myriad of other things.

How the FIT Development Program can keep technicians in the food and beverage industry

November 2, 2015

In this video, Gerald Lessard, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of West Liberty Foods, discusses the major challenges of retaining technicians and how the FIT Program can help enhance plant productivity as well as keep technicians in the food and beverage industry throughout their careers.

Discover how the Industrial Metaverse is transforming the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry by enabling companies to design, simulate, and optimize operations in a fully virtual environment.