On-Demand: Exclusively for thought-leaders in food and beverage processing facility management, Food Plant of the Future webinars are presented by Hixson, a leading design and engineering firm of food processing facilities in North America.

On-Demand: Exclusively for thought-leaders in food and beverage processing facility management, Food Plant of the Future webinars are presented by Hixson, a leading design and engineering firm of food processing facilities in North America.

On-Demand: Major food and beverage expansion projects often start with the preconception that a Greenfield plant is needed to achieve desired performance goals. This preconception is based on some pervasive myths.

On-Demand: Forward-thinking plant managers aren’t just reviving their aging plants with automation – they’re building thriving, operationally effective workplaces.

On-Demand: Food and beverage companies work hard to consistently deliver safe products because they understand that the stakes are extremely high – for the public and for their companies. The Food Plant of the Future will be driven to raise the bar for sanitary design, affecting existing plants as well as Greenfield and Brownfield projects.

On-Demand: Lots of things can wreak havoc with your production schedule – a last minute order from a key customer, bad quality ingredients from a supplier, equipment outages, even an outbreak of the flu. The key is to have a scheduling process in place that allows you to react quickly to these changes.

On-Demand: Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, and WCM, without the necessary management system, are not sustainable improvement technologies. Sustainable business improvement requires a complete system and framework to effectively manage the long term transformational processes required of these methodologies.

On-Demand: When you supply any of the mega retailers or food service companies, you probably feel that they dictate how to run your business. They squeeze your margins, impose certain business practices and make hard-to-meet demands.

On-Demand: Using cost-effective design solutions, food and beverage processing facilities can meet the rigorous performance demands required in a processing and production environment and, at the same time, focus on sustainability.

On-Demand: The need for food and beverage processors to drive down unit costs never ends. How can new/retrofitted plants be designed to optimize productivity?