Field Reports
Pasta and potatoes, presto!
New rotary continuous cooking and cooling system processes more than 3,000 lbs. of pasta and potatoes per hour.
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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
Food Safety
HACCP software: Get with the program!
From HACCP forms generation to automated track-and-trace systems, affordable software tools make FSMA compliance easier for small and medium-sized processors, and can reduce the potential of recalls.
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Best Practices
Automation tales from the trenches
Best practices in setting up and implementing automation systems go a long way to making a processor more successful than its peers.
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Manufacturing News
Energy savings and innovation key drivers at IBIE 2013
Key drivers in both equipment and software design included compliance with food safety regulations, energy savings and innovation.
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Manufacturing News
New poultry, hog inspection protocols under fire
The Government Accountability Office says there is insufficient data to verify the quality or safety of food these programs could deliver.
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Field Reports
Inspecting one jar at a time
The all-seeing X-ray eye can do it faster and better than the human eye, fulfilling this processor’s motto, “Filled and Inspected One Jar at a Time.”
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Field Reports
Krispy Kreme scales up doughnut production
Producing more than one million doughnuts per week requires consistent, accurate weighing of ingredients.
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Field Reports
Brewery’s pump doesn't need valves
Combined with a flow meter, the positive-displacement pump accurately meters yeast flow.
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Field Reports
Raisin processor gets double duty from rinse water
Not only does the processor avoid high charges from the public treatment facility, it also sells concentrated sugar water to distilleries.
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Packaging
Top shelf test
New package audit shows how design helps or hinders spirits makers.
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