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e-commerce packaging
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Keeping up with the e-commerce expansion

Tom Egan , PMMI
January 24, 2020
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As consumers demand greater convenience, e-commerce sales continue to rise. According to the 2019 Internet Retailer Top 1000 Report, consumers spent $517.36 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2018, up from $449.88 billion spent the year prior. Even when the final sales takes place in a store rather than online, the first step to most purchase decisions starts at the search bar.


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Subfreezing Dryer
Engineering R&D

Novel compressed air drying system leaves out the desiccant

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Wayne Labs
January 22, 2020
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Typically, in food applications where compressed air may come in direct contact with food, regenerative desiccant dryers are able to dry the air to ISO 8573 Class 1-2 requirements.
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Viking Masek saves energy with solar array
Energy savings

Packaging machine company turns toward the sun

Solar power helps Viking Masek save some big bucks
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Wayne Labs
January 9, 2020
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Solar arrays aren't just for sunny southern climes; they can reduce energy bills up north, too.
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DogStar Kitchens
Pet Food Series

Tomorrow’s pet food plant: What it takes to stay competitive

Plants of the future will rely on automation to produce consistent safe quality pet foods
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Wayne Labs
December 13, 2019
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What does the modern, competitive pet food plant of the future look like? What are its key design considerations to make it fast, efficient and safe (e.g., product flow, building, internal and external environmental considerations, waste streams, automation, equipment, etc.)?


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manufacturing processes
Editor's Note

Identifying and documenting workarounds for process challenges can help prevent failures

Casey laughman0031
Casey Laughman
December 13, 2019
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Whether it’s water efficiency, packaging, food safety, material flow or anything else you can think of, there is always a point in the process that creates challenges, and that point is usually a headache for processors of any size.
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Prestage Farms pork processing facility
Fab Food Plants

How Prestage Foods of Iowa built a state-of-the-art pork processing plant

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Sharon Spielman
December 9, 2019
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Producing more than 1.4 billion pounds of pork and turkey annually, the Prestage Farms family of companies employs more than 2,700 associates and is affiliated with more than 470 farm families across the U.S.
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VDG
Innovation

White paper: The evolution of the drum motor

Drum motors have seen numerous design improvements over the decades
Alexander Kanaris
December 2, 2019
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The drum motor belt drive design entered the conveyor industry in the early 50’s as a unique drive for belt conveyor applications.


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Kevin Beasley, VAI, Inc.
Automation

ERP software helps keep bad product from consumers

Today’s cloud-based ERP software can track products in near real time
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Wayne Labs
December 2, 2019
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ERP software can provide data showing who has the product and what its status is in the supply chain.
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collaborative robots
Tech Update

Why be liable for workplace injuries if robots can do the job safely, efficiently?

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Wayne Labs
November 22, 2019
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Robots in picking, packing and palletizing applications have performed some new feats—thanks to clever system integrators who have given them sensitive touch, better grips and keen vision.
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water sustainability
Sustainability

Reduce, reuse, recycle can help processors meet water usage goals

Sharon spielman authors
Sharon Spielman
November 18, 2019
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Although potable fresh water may seem like an endless resource, it is becoming scarcer as the population continues to grow and as the climate continues to change.
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