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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
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Peanut butter was laced with Salmonella due to poor plant conditions and neglect
Food Safety

Food Safety at the Crossroads

The recent peanut paste recall-largest ever in terms of supply chain-points to the urgency of food safety today
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
March 1, 2009
The recent peanut paste recall-largest ever in terms of supply chain-points to the urgency of food safety today.
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Weigh belt feeders improve ingredient weighing accuracy

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
February 1, 2009
Smart weigh belt feeders from K-Tron helped Kar Nuts get its more than 30 blends of salted nuts and trail mix products on spec with 0.5% accuracy. Source: K-Tron.Kar Nuts
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Banner Engineering photoelectric and proximity sensors count the bottles (left) while Banner’s SureCross wireless node (right) stores and sends the data

Tech Update: Wireless networks provide critical measures

Applications are vast as the imagination can create
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
February 1, 2009
Applications are vast as the imagination can create.
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Poultry Processors Uncover New Ways to Reduce Costs

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
January 1, 2009

Market pressures, sustainability and food-borne illness issuses are driving the push for increased efficiency.


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Tech Update: Process Control

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
January 1, 2009
Citect Ampla MES software allows Ahold Coffee Company to improve overall equipment effectiveness while improving planning and production processes.
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Tech Update: Clean-in-Place

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 1, 2008
This CIP system provides automated cleaning to a bakery oven.
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Cover Story: Soup's on at StockPot

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
December 1, 2008
StockPot’s new state-of-the-art facility in Everett , WA facilitates the preparation of soup just the way Mom used to make it.
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Feature Article: Rising Energy Costs Modify the Site Selection Landscape

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
November 1, 2008
Energy costs, logistics, sustainability and workforce issues cause processors to rethink location, location, location.
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Tech Update: Thermal Processing

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
October 1, 2008
Basic equipment adjustments improve product quality and energy savings.
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X-ray cabinet inspection system

Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
August 1, 2008
Eriez’s model XR-21 series cabinet inspection system identifies contaminants, scans for missing or broken products and detects packaging voids.
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