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April 18, 2012 |
Plant Managers Assume More Profit-Driving Responsibilities In today's fast-paced, globalized economy companies are seeking plant managers with a strong business sense.   |
Food Engineering
August 3, 2006
Joyce Fassl |
Editor's Note: In search of the next winner Which outstanding new plant construction project, major expansion or highly renovated facility will be the next Plant of the Year? |
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
October 2010 |
MRO Q&A: How To Measure Maintenance in Financial Terms Most of the financial ratios used today to measure operational outputs are meaningless to plant-level management groups. |
Food Engineering
November 1, 2005
Joyce Fassl |
Look back to see forward As they did in 1995, today's processors see the need for greater automation and feel the push from consumers. However, a few things have changed the way we do business. |
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
November 2011 |
MRO Q&A: Building a Successful Energy Cost Savings Program How can I build a successful energy cost savings program and get all areas within the organization working together on this critical effort? What have others organizations found to be the quickest items for results? |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Bridging The Great Divide Plant operations depend on their companies' IT departments to help operations run smoothly, but too often there's a general distrust between the two organizations because of cultural differences. Like a marriage, the healing begins with communication. |
Food Engineering
June 1, 2009 |
Plant of the Year Honored Celebration Foods received Food Engineering's 2009 Plant of the Year award during a special presentation on April 28 in Sarasota, FL. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Things We Learned in the Storm Manufacturing success requires relentless pursuit of operational excellence and a committed, engaged work force. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2007
Kevin T. Higgins |
Outsourcing Engineering Refining Priorities for New Age Engineers The balancing act that engineering teams must master is outsourcing nonessential jobs while retaining the personnel and talent necessary for innovation. |
Food Processing
June 2013
Chris Bacon |
Smart Technology Helping Food Plant Operators Improve Communication All your employees have smartphones, so use them for training, SOPs and more. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Novartis biotech plant for Singapore The new plant, which will make drugs through cell culture, will be located with the Novartis production plant at Tuas. |
PHONE+
Mike Rosen |
Producing ROI for Manufacturers Given the potential operational downsides related to an inefficient or outdated communications system, your sales pitch to manufacturing companies must begin and end with ROI. |
Global Services
January 1, 2008
Todd Lefkowitz |
Answering Services Call Regardless of the IT infrastructure outsourcing option a customer organization chooses, one of the most important elements in the partnership is the communication on managing risk, optimally using technology and enhancing efficiency. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Snap-on Power Tools: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Staying Power: How do you create an 'enduring manufacturing footprint' in a hard-hit North Carolina town? The lean way, of course. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Cat's Virtual Value Stream Company takes advantage of economic downturn to revamp workflow at Illinois plant by utilizing digital planning systems. |
Food Engineering
June 1, 2005
Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automation & Manufacturing 2005 Conference and Expo: Information Abundance Shifting markets are impacting production demands in food processing, says keynote speaker at Food Automation & Manufacturing 2005 Conference and Expo. |
Food Processing
December 2006
Mike Pehanich |
Processor of the Year: Discipline born of necessity The $4.5 billion Keebler acquisition not only taught Kellogg lessons in manufacturing efficiency, but how to look to employees for ways to cut plant costs. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2007 |
Global automation infrastructure needed A new study suggests there is a paradigm shift in the design, selection and deployment of process automation systems -- from automation software to plant floor control hardware, to the use of more international automation standards and practices. |
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. |
National Defense
March 2007
James F. O'Bryon |
Defense Dept. Needs More Technical Expertise, Says Chief Weapons Tester Despite decades of acquisition reforms, major military procurement programs continue to experience cost growth and technology readiness problems. Often the wrong decisions are made because the government lacks enough technical expertise to oversee complex programs. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
IEC Electronics Corp.: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 IEC Plant Rises From the Dead: Almost out for the count, circuit-board assembly operation reinvents itself. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2006 |
Dreyer's takes home the trophy Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream's Bakersfield, CA, plant honored as Food Engineering's 2006 Plant of the Year. |
Food Engineering
June 1, 2005 |
Plant of the Year embraces best practices, technological innovation The Bell & Evans poultry processing plant in Fredericksburg, PA, was honored as Food Engineering's 2005 plant of the year. The plant's centerpiece is a multi-phase air-chill system that replaces conventional immersion chilling. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2008 |
Plant of the Year has Italian flair Barilla's new pasta plant in Avon, NY, was driven by logistics. |
Food Processing
December 2011
Bob Sperber |
2011 Processor of the Year H.J. Heinz Co.: A Global Standard for Local Performance Heinz Global Performance System defines quality, teamwork and management best practices for 81 plants worldwide. |
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. |
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 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. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2009
Joyce Fassl |
Editor's Note: A New Tradition in Sustainability Food and beverage manufacturers continue to uncover innovative ways to be environmentally friendly as they increase efficiency. |
IndustryWeek
December 15, 2010 |
Avery Dennison Office Products de Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.: IW Best Plants Profile 2010 Opening Room for Growth: Avery Dennison's Tijuana plant gains significant volume by freeing floor space through lean planning. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007
John S. McClenahen |
Factory Of The Future Get a glimpse now of manufacturing tomorrow. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2006
Jonathan Katz |
Operations Intelligence: A Loose Link Too few manufacturers are tying operations to their financials. |
IndustryWeek
January 19, 2011 |
Safety in 30 Days A month long mentoring program has had a big impact on safety at Snap-on's Murphy, N.C., plant. |
IndustryWeek
April 18, 2012 |
Deliver Higher Productivity with Smarter Workforce Practices With the effective cost of labor evening out between China and the U.S., manufacturers must find other ways to improve productivity and reduce costs. One way: leverage production personnel. |
Food Processing
February 2012
Bob Sperber |
Software Puts Your Plant on Fast-Forward New automation software lets you 'TiVo' your process, while Johnsonville Sausage finds a neat trick to make SAP data more usable in the plant. |
Food Processing
September 2007 |
Kraft's cost-cutting model Kraft Foods successfully integrates a process control improvement project to increase packaging effectiveness, first-pass quality, overtime reduction, giveaway reduction and raw material inventory. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2006
John Teresko |
Partnership Pays Off The New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. experiment today employs 5,000; produces Pontiac Vibe and Toyota Corolla, Tacoma. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2003
Traci Purdum |
Back To Basics Auto supplier leverages internal expertise to retain world-class processes |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2001
Peter Strozniak |
Rising To The Challenge More plants struggle to adopt lean-manufacturing techniques, learning valuable lessons along the way... |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2009 |
General Cable Corp. - Altoona Plant: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 Competing With the World: With savvy market moves and a passion for continuous improvement, the General Cable Altoona plant is meeting the competition head on and winning. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2007
Brad Kenney |
Process, Unplugged An increased potential for savings is driving a growth market in wireless systems in the field of process manufacturing. |
Chemistry World
March 28, 2014
Phillip Broadwith |
Grangemouth will switch to shale gas feed by 2016, says Ineos Chemicals manufacturer Ineos is advancing its investment plan to revive profitability at its plant in Grangemouth, UK. |
IndustryWeek
October 20, 2010 |
Five Plant Capacity Lessons Learned Many companies are growing back volume without adding employees. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2007
Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automation & Manufacturing 2007 Conference and Expo Challenges abound for food and beverage processors, but creative solutions were the order of the day at this annual conference. |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2008 |
Plant Openings & Expansions Kraft Pizza Company breaks ground on Little Chute, WI, plant... Stellar completes construction of meat processing plant in Seminole, OK... Ottens Flavors purchases Philadelphia plant... Hormel Foods is constructing a new production facility in Dubuque, IA... |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Ford Plant Restarts Engines With Skilled Training Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 used lean manufacturing and new cultural practices that helped the plant gain a new engine. |
IndustryWeek
March 16, 2011 |
Show Us Your Operational Excellence Enter your manufacturing plant in IndustryWeek's 2011 Best Plants competition. |
IndustryWeek
November 18, 2009 |
Excellence in Action Tours: Best Practices on Display Photo highlights from two Excellence in Action plant tours |
