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Wayne Labs

Wayne Labs

Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.

Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Articles

ARTICLES

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
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
January 9, 2020
Solar arrays aren't just for sunny southern climes; they can reduce energy bills up north, too.
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product tracking
Manufacturing News

Solving IoT supply chain communications problems

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
January 6, 2020
Food manufacturers and distributors are beginning to attach IoT sensors to shipping containers to track critical information about the temperature and humidity of the product plus ongoing location and shipper information.
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mulch film market
Engineering R&D

Novel plastic formulation decomposes naturally

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 19, 2019
A new plastic technology developed by a startup company, Radical Plastics, has created a plastic resin that—depending on composition—can have a “preprogrammed” time to return to basic nonthreatening carbon compounds.
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Sidel cobots give Nestlé a hand
Robotics

Palletizing cobots handle tea, ease workload

Nestlé needed a robust, precise and user-friendly cobotic solution—one that could handle pallet stability.
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 17, 2019
Nestlé Suisse SA in Orbe, Switzerland, a facility producing tea in capsules under the well-known brand of Special.T, was in a bind as it looked for a cobotic palletizing solution. Not only was accurate placement of cartons necessary, the robots had to work safely among people.
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pet food packaging
Pet Food

Expectations for conveniently packaged specialty pet food create challenges

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 16, 2019
In this article, we look at how the growth of consumer demands and regulations is modernizing pet food operations.
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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
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 13, 2019

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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Food Defense Plan Builder
Manufacturing News

FDA offers help with food defense plans

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 13, 2019
For processors that have either put off or need help with building an organized food defense plan, look no further than the FDA’s website.
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Krones' Botec F1 runs on Windows 10
Automation

Are you and your control systems ready for Windows 10?

Microsoft will drop support of Windows 7 in January 2020
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 10, 2019

Windows 7 to 10 upgrades may not be so difficult—so upgrade to stay secure.


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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
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 2, 2019
ERP software can provide data showing who has the product and what its status is in the supply chain.
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Wonderful Pistachios' new automated production facility
Automation

Wonderful Pistachios meets global demand with new automated production facility

Producer chooses Allen-Bradley control system over a home-brew motor control center
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 2, 2019
The choice of a control solution collaborator was straightforward for Wonderful Pistachios, which has worked with Rockwell Automation for more than 20 years.
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