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Industrial Heat Pumps: Sustainable Energy Solutions for Now and the Future

While natural gas is abundant and relatively cheap now, it may not be in the future —and industrial users need to be ready with alternative sources for heating.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
May 13, 2025

Industrial heat pumps create more heat energy than the electrical energy they consume, making them efficient and potential replacements for boilers burning petroleum products, decreasing carbon footprints.


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Planning Tips for Conveying Systems and Lines

Creating efficient conveying systems begins with knowing what you want to accomplish, then enlisting the help of system integrators and suppliers — you may find that you can do things you hadn’t thought possible.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
April 14, 2025

Creating efficient conveying systems begins with knowing what you want to accomplish, then enlisting the help of system integrators and suppliers — you may find that you can do things you hadn’t thought possible.


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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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Track and Trace

Are You Ready for FSMA’s Section 204(d) Food Traceability Rule?

FDA’s FSMA Section 204(d) rule requires traceability for critical high-spoilage foods, which have been known to carry foodborne illnesses. If you’re not prepared for the new rule, your competition will be.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
March 19, 2025

FDA’s FSMA Section 204(d) rule requires traceability for critical high-spoilage foods, which have been known to carry foodborne illnesses. If you’re not prepared for the new rule, your competition will be.



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Food safety testing

Food Safety Testing: Do it Right and Avoid Costly Recalls

Food safety testing is not only required by regulating bodies, it helps prevent contaminated product from getting out the door, harming people and your business.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
March 6, 2025

Food safety testing is not only required by regulating bodies, it helps prevent contaminated product from getting out the door, harming people and your business.


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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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FDA and EPA Announce First Registered Pre-Harvest Agricultural Water Treatment

Finally, a safe and effective water treatment for pre-harvest agricultural water for leafy greens.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
February 11, 2025

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.


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AI

Get a Leg Up: Let AI-Powered PLM Reveal Secrets You Need to Succeed

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.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
January 17, 2025

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.


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Plastic water bottles

Phthalates, Packaging Materials and Food Contact: Still a Problem?

While several phthalates have been ruled out of packaging materials, phthalates in food and beverages remain, but are permitted levels safe?
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
January 14, 2025

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?


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Quality Control

Quality Control, Safe Food Rely on People and Technology

Quality control of food products goes hand-in-hand with safe foods, yet there have been a number of food safety incidents over the past year.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 19, 2024

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


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