Articles by Wayne Labs

“One-up, one-down” should be good enough for supply chain members, but regulatory bodies need to see the big picture.

A well-defined maintenance strategy for industrial equipment and machinery is essential for preventing potentially catastrophic incidents, ensuring safety, and improving efficiency.

Mobile devices keep operators informed wherever they happen to be, improving their response time to upsets and changes.

With climbing utility prices, even a little energy savings improves the bottom line.

Implementing blockchain technology needs some more time to gestate.

Minimizing software incompatibilities will take some organization and planning.

Beyond the normal process measurements needed to check that production is on track, analytical instrumentation can track important variables that can keep difficult-to-control processes on track.

It wasn’t that long ago that a guru was needed to plan production for products based on manually recorded sales and inventory levels.

If you’ve ever played “Whac-A-Mole” on the boardwalk or at an arcade, you can get a sense of the frustration that both food and beverage processors and architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) firms are feeling in today’s economy—fix one problem, another pops up.