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Focused Manufacturing Plant Shutdowns: Hope Is Not a Strategy

How to Maximize Your Impact in a Minimal Downtime Window
Cole Krause_Burns & McDonnell
Cole Krause
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Stephen Schicker
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Daniel Sorensen
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Matthew Stagemeyer
May 22, 2025

The focused facility shutdown approach, built around comprehensive planning and meticulous project execution, transforms a potentially disruptive shutdown into a highly productive period for essential upgrades and improvements.


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10 Ways a Smart Boiler System Can Improve a Manufacturing Plant

Simon Soloff
May 6, 2025

In today’s production environment, energy efficiency has become a crucial factor for manufacturing facilities aiming to reduce operational costs.


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Bearing Solutions for Food and Beverage Conveyance

Tips for selecting bearings for new conveyors, maintaining bearings in existing equipment.
Jake Wenzel
Jake Wenzel
April 29, 2025

Here's a look at the types of bearings used in food and beverage conveyance and details to consider when selecting bearings for new conveyor builds and maintaining existing ones.


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New Open Source and AI Tools Make Keeping Track of Machine Programming Easier

Change management, aka version control, can be a challenge when all you want to do is get the packaging machine back up and running after a line change.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
April 8, 2025

Keeping track of your PLCs’ programming is easy as long as you don’t have to change it. When you do need to make program changes, the ability to keep track of them is easier with modern tools and AI.


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Exploring the Role Food-Grade Lubricants Play in Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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John Sander
March 24, 2025

Food-grade lubricants, specifically designed for use in food processing and handling equipment, are essential components in preventing contamination and ensuring smooth operations.


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How Does Your OT Cybersecurity Stack Up? Tips and Techniques for a Safer and More Secure Operation

While protection from hackers can be complex, many IT and OT managers aren’t following the basics.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
February 13, 2025

Poor cybersecurity practices can result in disastrous consequences, though many incidents occur through simple mistakes or forgotten equipment settings. We point out some methods to help alleviate the human error that can result in disaster.


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Using Data

Using Data to Drive Predictive Maintenance Strategies

Food and beverage manufacturers are discovering that machine learning is a vital ingredient in moving to predictive maintenance strategies. Larger food companies have the jump on digital transformations, but smaller companies are starting small and increasing spending to start the journey.
Grant Gerke
Grant Gerke
February 10, 2025

Food and beverage manufacturers are discovering that machine learning is a vital ingredient in moving to predictive maintenance strategies. Larger food companies have the jump on digital transformations, but smaller companies are starting small and increasing spending to start the journey. 


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AI

Planning for AI-based Automation Systems

Artificial intelligence, coupled with machine learning, promises to improve plant operations from sensor level to the enterprise, but adoption has been slow with some overzealous starts.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 12, 2024

A well-thought-out strategy can maximize the benefit of having the right sensors in the right place with the right controls.


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November 22, 2024

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Clear Comfort Introduces New AOP Water Treatment Systems

November 19, 2024

Clear Comfort says its newest AOP systems enable facilities to achieve higher cycles of concentration, reducing the need for makeup water, chemical use and blowdown.


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