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Food Engineering August 1, 2009 Richard F. Stier |
Food Safety: The well-dressed worker Proper plant attire is just one more way to help protect the food supply. |
Food Engineering June 1, 2009 Richard F. Stier |
Food Safety: Lubrication as a Line of Defense Avoid adulteration risk with proper use and storage of food grade and non-food grade lubricants. |
Food Engineering December 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier |
Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits. |
Food Processing September 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Where and how does a preventive maintenance program fit in with our normal routine maintenance program? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
Food Engineering April 2, 2007 Wayne Labs |
Savvy Maintenance Strategies For food processors, a savvy plant maintenance strategy begins with hard questions based in reality. What does it cost when a part fails in your production line? How critical is it to your business? |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance. |
Food Processing September 2009 |
MRO Q&A: How Can Plant Managers Keep up with All the Changes Happening in Every Area of Food Plant Operations? Welcome to MRO Q&A, a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. We've assembled a panel of plant operations experts to answer any question you have on plant-floor issues. |
Food Processing April 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Sanitizing, Standardizing Your Maintenance Program MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
Food Processing September 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why hasn't predictive maintenance developed faster in food & beverage plant operations? A look at the factors that must be present for a plant to have sufficient benefit from predictive maintenance to justify the investment in measurement equipment. |
Food Processing March 2005 Mike Pehanich |
Designing food safety into your plant Don't make food safety an afterthought. Carefully planning the design and materials used in your plant can help insure the safety of your food production. HACCP programs and AMI's 'Eleven Principles' are good starting points. |
Food Processing March 2012 |
MRO Q&A: Assigning Numbers to Maintenance What is a reasonable ratio of plant maintenance expense to plant sales output? |
Food Engineering September 1, 2006 Richard F. Stier |
Form fits function Choosing whether to build a new plant or renovate or expand an existing one is based on any number of necessary functions. |
Food Processing August 2010 |
MRO Q&A: What are the do's and don'ts for food industry maintenance? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
Food Processing April 2011 |
Choosing and Applying Lubricants in Food Processing Plants New additives and base stocks improve their performance. |
Food Processing September 2008 |
How Worthwhile is Lube and Oil Analysis? Answers to your questions about lubrication and oil analysis in the food processing industry. |
Food Processing September 2006 David Joy |
Guard against intentional contamination The food industry is fortunate Congress and FDA have not developed more specific requirements for food security. |
Food Processing November 2008 Dave Fusaro |
Hand to Hand Combat: The Hygiene Equation Along with the washdowns, clean-in-place systems and hazards analysis and critical control points (HACCP) programs, there is renewed emphasis on one of the basics of plant sanitation -- personal hygiene. |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine. |
Food Engineering February 1, 2005 |
Is preventive maintenance worth it? For many businesses, a planned maintenance strategy is critical. Yet nearly 68 percent of the respondents to a survey of the food and beverage industry say they allocate less than half of their maintenance budgets for preventive activities that reduce equipment failure and plant shutdown. |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2007 John Teresko |
Profiting From Proactive Maintenance In addition to safeguarding production schedules, proactive maintenance adds new efficiencies and revenue potential, too. |
Food Processing October 2007 Mike Pehanich |
Clean and mean Why do companies frequently fall short at the most important interface in the food safety scene -- the hands of their plant workers? |
Food Processing July 2006 Mike Pehanich |
Extreme makeover: Plant edition Need to give your food plant a facelift? Start with materials and designs that spell safety, cleanliness and a "spankin' new look." |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Operations: Maintenance Miscues The consequences of missed or ignored equipment maintenance can range from lost production to costly and perhaps even fatal safety mishaps. Here's what you can do to keep costly breakdowns at bay. |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2005 George Taninecz |
Thomas & Betts Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2005 Even Better: New expectations, goals and classic lean practices lead the electrical outlet and conduit box maker to world-class performance. |
Food Processing June 2006 Mike Pehanich |
Controlling moisture in the plant With once-ignored USDA requirements for condensation control compelling processors to take a closer look at humidity problems, here are some timely tips on choosing between desiccant and mechanical dehumidifiers. |
Food Engineering January 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier |
Could More Inspections Stifle Food Contamination? Inspections minimize contamination, but the key to avoiding problems is in prevention. |
Food Processing October 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why Do Good Plants Go Down? From a macro perspective the top three major shutdown threats for a food plant could be summarized as: a catastrophic event, a facility's internal operational failure or a facility's external operational failure. |
Food Processing April 2012 David Phillips |
Lubricants Make the (Food) Grade Synthetic and anti-microbial lubricants provide better service in food plants. |
Food Processing April 2010 Bob Sperber |
Meat and poultry: Make it fast, keep it safe Amid recession, recalls and regulations, plants make strides to marry safety with efficiency gains. |
Chemistry World April 12, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Veolia and Total open oil recycling plant Environmental services firm Veolia Environnement and oil company Total have opened a new plant near Le Havre, France, to regenerate used oils into engine lubricants. |
IndustryWeek December 14, 2011 |
The Next Generation of Plant Mobility Could consumer-oriented mobile devices, such as Apple's iPad, become commonplace on the plant floor? |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz |
PDAs Drive Mobility At GM Plant New Michigan plant adopts wide-scale PDA deployment. |
Food Processing September 2009 |
MRO Q&A: How Can We Limit the Associated Corrosion of Salt Brine Within Our Plant Environment? Welcome to MRO Q&A, a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. We've assembled a panel of plant operations experts to answer any question you have on plant-floor issues. |
Food Processing October 2011 |
MRO Q&A: What is Active Food Packaging's role in the Food Processing Industry? Q: What is the impact of active food packaging within the food processing industry? |
Food Engineering May 1, 2008 Steve Bjerklie |
Special Supplement: Conveyor Systems Control Plant Flow A clean, efficient conveying system establishes the overall health of the operation; a weak system can put the entire plant at risk. |
Food Processing May 2009 Bob Sperber |
CMMS Software: Will Work for Food Maintenance software starts out as a generic tool; can become a critical instrument for safety and compliance throughout the plant. |
Food Processing April 2009 |
MRO Q&A: Roofing, HVAC as a Source of Contamination How do the majority of plant managers view the threat to food safety from contamination from HVAC systems, and what they are doing to mitigate this threat? |
Food Processing December 2009 |
MRO Q&A: What Will the Recession Effect Be for Food & Beverage? There's no way of knowing for sure that this recession has ended. But every day there are more indications we're on the road to recovery. |
Food Engineering April 1, 2005 Olin Thompson |
Something broken this way comes An estimated 35 percent of indirect cost in a food plant is due to maintenance. Can you foresee upcoming equipment failures? Predictive and preventive maintenance software can help keep your plant running. |
Food Processing June 2012 David Phillips |
Food Manufacturing Facilities Design for Flexibility Smaller, more nimble food processing plants offer something different. |
Food Engineering March 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
The Business Case for Better Maintenance It seems a stretch, but a plant's maintenance department can be a profit center. |
Food Engineering April 1, 2009 Richard F. Stier |
Food Safety: The great peanut butter debacle How should companies handle lots in which pathogens are found? |
Food Engineering December 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Fabulous Food Plant: West Liberty Foods High throughput and flexible production drove much of the design in WLF's Tremonton, UT plant, which also looks to establish best practices in food safety, production innovation and automation. |
Food Processing August 2010 |
MRO Q&A: What is your method for stopping line downtime? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2007 Ralph Keller |
Continuous Improvement -- What Does Enterprise Excellence Look Like? To get an idea of how good your facility is, start by asking: Would you buy products from your own plant? |
Food Processing June 2009 Bob Sperber |
Renovate for Food Safety From leaky roofs to corroded underground pipes, old plants are slow-motion accidents waiting to happen. |
Food Processing April 2011 Pisciotta & Ramsey |
Is Your Manufacturing Plant Secure? With the new Food Safety Act, it's time to perform a physical security checkup. |
Food Processing June 2012 |
MRO Q&A: TPM as a best practice? Q: I have heard the term Total Productive Maintenance as being the "best practice" for maintaining equipment. Can you help me understand what it is and how it differs from regular maintenance? |
Food Processing August 2010 |
MRO Q&A: How and where can I benchmark downtime and uptime in the bagged salad industry? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. |
IndustryWeek February 15, 2012 Jill Jusko |
TPM Delivers a Maintenance Fix Laminations saw an opportunity to improve its maintenance activities. Total Productive Maintenance provided the solution. |