Articles by Wayne Labs

A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) can help food and beverage facility owners plan and schedule assets and labor to optimize overall plant efficiency and minimize downtime.

As Food Engineering searches for a new editor-in-chief, this month the editor’s note is under construction, so to speak.

Driving a conveyor head roller with a drum motor, which features a motor and gear box within the roller housing, is not a new concept.

1990: Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of water due to benzene contamination. The brand never recovers its prior status.

We thought we hit a peak when 2014’s total reportable food and beverage plant construction projects numbered 635. But, the number of construction projects recorded in 2015 is 9.29 percent greater and is the highest number in the last 10 years.

Remember the early days of data acquisition/collection systems?

Cooling systems designed and operating without regard for an entire facility’s different cooling needs can be big energy wasters.

John Bergida, president/founder of Frosty Cold, had an idea for a chemical powder that could plunge water from room temperature to below freezing in seconds while maintaining a slurry state.

Yes, bacon has lately become a trend or fad, leaping its way out of the breakfast frying pan into food creations where it would have seemed an unlikely ingredient just a few years ago.