Articles by Wayne Labs

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.

Leafy greens have had a checkered past in terms of food safety — it’s been suspected that pre-harvest irrigation water may have spread E. coli and Salmonella to these vegetables.

Artificial intelligence-powered PLM can make accurate projections about planning new products, introducing them to the market and looking at all the factors a processor might miss in execution.

Over-reacting or not, several consumer groups and clinicians — backed by new data — want phthalates out of the food supply. But is it a doable and practical task?

Food safety and quality are synonymous and need to fit into the same QC program.

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

Cobots can work safely among people and relieve them of the drudge work nobody wants to do—like cartoning and palletizing.

With the rushed production schedules at plants, having key process information is not the only data needed, but key device data allows scheduled maintenance.

While the vocabulary doesn’t have to be large, each machine should know about stops and starts upstream and downstream.

Industrial heat pumps provide chilling and freezing, and reclaim the heat energy lost in chilling to save money on heating water for cooking and cleaning—but is retrofitting possible?