Often, the factors that derail future expansions are the ones nobody’s talking about. These five overlooked details can make a facility more flexible — or more fragile than expected.
Dennis Group engineers and project managers discuss the lesser-known factors that can make or break a food manufacturing plant’s long-term expandability.
If you’ve ever played “Whac-A-Mole” on the boardwalk or at an arcade, you can get a sense of the frustration that both food and beverage processors and architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) firms are feeling in today’s economy—fix one problem, another pops up.
From 2006 to 2010, 8,600 structure fires were reported at US industrial or manufacturing facilities, resulting in 11 fatalities, 230 injuries and $753 million in direct property damage, according to NFPA research.
Eliminating individual valve wiring and molded cable sets for manifold valve stacks, the Mead Fluid Dynamics Manifold PowerStrip consolidates wiring to a single home-run cable.
Providing 3 independent phases of voltage and current, the Fluke 6003A electrical power source includes measurement capabilities for DC voltage, DC resistance and frequency.
Many processors have already switched out inefficient lighting and invested in high-efficiency motors, and some have tried demand control while others have instituted real-time purchasing of energy.