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Food Engineering July 2, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins |
5th Annual Replacement Parts and Components Survey: Processors Take a Cost-Driven Approach The role of purchasing managers in the spare parts and components process clearly is growing. |
Food Engineering July 1, 2005 Joy LePree |
2005 Replacement Parts and Components Trends Survey: Speed It Up! Food processors speak out about the importance of faster replacement parts delivery, offering a recipe of actions that suppliers could take to make them more satisfied customers. |
Food Engineering July 1, 2009 Kevin T. Higgins |
Replacement Parts Survey: Processors Remain Cautious in an Era of Uncertainty More than a third of industry professionals surveyed for the 2009 Replacement Parts and Components Trends Survey say their programs have been disrupted, with potentially serious consequences down the road. |
Food Engineering July 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
6th Annual Replacement Parts and Components Survey Information sources for spare parts may be more fragmented than ever before, but the growing importance of the World Wide Web is clear. |
Food Engineering September 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
The State of Food Manufacturing From recall readiness to raw material and energy costs, Food Engineering readers weigh in on issues affecting workers and the workplace for food manufacturing. |
Food Engineering October 1, 2005 Kevin T. Higgins |
State of Food Manufacturing: Period of Polarization Emerges The middle ground is shrinking as processors gravitate to one extreme or another in their approach to food and beverage manufacturing. |
Food Engineering October 4, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins |
State of Food Manufacturing Materials issues are emerging as defining factors in today's food and beverage industry. |
Food Processing August 2005 Mike Pehanich |
MRO strategies mean money in the bank Redundant purchasing and poor inventory management have cost companies millions of dollars for generations. But there are mountains of savings waiting to be found in maintenance, repairs and operations costs. |
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 July 1, 2005 Joyce Fassl |
Summertime--and the living's not so easy While there still may be Internet doubters among our readership today (34 percent do not use the net for ordering parts), the need for rapid spare parts delivery surely drives the 50 percent jump in Internet usage. |
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? |
Food Engineering October 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Packaging Trends Study With customers demanding less material waste and manufacturing looking for ways to trim transportation costs, the trend toward sustainable packaging is gathering momentum. |
Food Engineering July 2, 2007 Joyce Fassl |
Renewed commitment to employee training may be the ticket For decades, plant worker training issues have continued to plague the industry. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 Nick Zubko |
Getting More from MRO Knowing the capabilities of maintenance, repair, and operations suppliers can help manufacturers keep costs down. |
Food Processing October 2008 Dave Fusaro |
Supply Chain Pains Who's managing whom? In a year of unprecedented pressures, our exclusive joint survey finds a tug of war between food processors and their suppliers. |
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 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. |
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. |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment performance. |
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Steve Mehltretter |
Consider This -- Making MRO Inventories Play by the Rules Well-managed maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) inventory can reduce costs and improve service levels. |
Food Processing February 2007 Dave Fusaro |
2007 Readers' Choice Awards: Service Trumps Products Food industry's best suppliers of ingredients, equipment and services in this fifth annual Readers' Choice Awards. |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine. |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2005 Tonya Vinas |
IW Value-Chain Survey: A Map Of The World A 2005 Value-Chain Survey sets benchmarks for global manufacturers in procurement, new product development, supply-chain planning and logistics. |
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 February 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance. |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2001 John Teresko |
Maintenance's New Player: The CIO Manufacturing's wealth of IT data is being parlayed into new maintenance-management strategies... |
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. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2002 Jill Jusko |
Procurement -- Not All Dollars And Cents Despite the downswing in the economy, manufacturers continue to strive for collaborative procurement partnerships... |
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 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 September 5, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins |
Packaging Trends Survey: The Year of Living Sustainably The sustainable packaging bandwagon is gathering momentum, and most food and beverage companies are on board. |
Food Processing August 2008 Bob Sperber |
Predictive Maintenance Environment in Food Processing Plants Provides Early Warning System Maintenance is moving from preventive to predictive mode with condition monitoring, maintenance system upgrades and the promise of easier integration. |
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 David Blanchard |
Partnering on the Supply Side Supply distributors need to provide more than just logistics services. |
Food Processing January 2013 David Phillips |
2013 Manufacturing Trends Survey: Labor, not Energy, the Concern in 2013 While economic uncertainty remains, respondents expect more growth. |
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 January 2009 Dave Fusaro |
Collective Wisdom on Outsourcing Our joint survey on contracting-out production, R&D and other functions finds a lot of mixed feelings. |
Food Engineering December 1, 2006 Joy LePree |
Annual Salary & Job Satisfaction Survey: Life is Good, But it Could be Better Food and beverage workers find their jobs satisfying, but say there's room for improvement. |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2003 Tonya Vinas |
It Starts With Parts Manufacturers find outsourcing of equipment parts often the first step in improving MRO strategy. |
Food Processing January 2007 David Feder |
Annual Manufacturing Survey: Labor pains Food safety remains the top concern in our sixth annual Manufacturing Trends Survey, with labor issues and energy also topping the worry list. |
Food Processing March 2005 Dave Fusaro |
Annual Manufacturing Trends Survey: I need YOU The leading concerns in the food industry involve labor. With safety still the top issue, many companies are creating new positions. Number two is recruiting enough workers to match an anticipated increase in production. Following those are automation, plant security and energy costs. |
IndustryWeek July 20, 2009 David Blanchard |
Use Nontraditional Metrics to Measure Your Distributor A distributor's involvement in your operations is a clear indication of its value. |
Food Processing May 2009 David Feder |
38th Annual R&D Survey: Surprise! More New Product Development Forget the economy. Survey respondents say they're working more on new products than on safe line extensions. |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2003 John Teresko |
Digging For Gold Enterprise asset management (EAM) delivers much more than a maintenance solution. The EAM approach also facilitates the use of asset performance data to support corporate decision-making and business performance. |
Food Processing January 2012 Bob Sperber |
2012 Manufacturing Trends Survey: Can Production This Year Top 2011? Processors can't get a break from uncertain markets, rising costs and changing safety standards, but they continue to grow and keep optimism high. |
Food Processing February 2007 Dave Fusaro |
Editor's Plate: Who are the best suppliers? What if you could draw upon the collective wisdom of 400 or so food industry professionals? Then you'd really have some insight. |
Food Processing February 2008 Lloyd Snyder |
How to launch a new manufacturing line Consulting engineers can be great allies in expanding or changing your process, but only you can impress on them the unique needs of your company and your plant. |
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 May 2010 David Feder |
2010 R&D Survey: Recovery in Development After two years of economic limbo, our annual R&D Survey shows things might just be picking up as promised. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jonathan Katz |
Census Of Manufacturers -- Drifting Apart Manufacturers are moving farther away from their partners and, in the process, becoming less integrated. |
Food Processing October 2007 David Feder |
36th Annual R&D Survey: The recipe calls for marketing Annual survey finds marketing playing a much bigger role in every step of the food product development process. |