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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 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
October 1, 2002
Samuel Greengard |
Maximum Return Manufacturers such as Volvo are using asset-management programs to put the brakes on breakdowns and maximize equipment management. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Maintenance Seers Predictive maintenance tools and strategies diagnose problems before they begin. |
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 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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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
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 2013 |
MRO Q&A: When Is Condition-Based Maintenance Worth It? What can you tell me about condition-based maintenance? Is it more economical than preventative maintenance? |
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
September 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Reaching For A Smarter Factory Machine tools that not only think, but readily communicate. Those are the ambitious goals of research initiatives that not only promise a smarter factory, but are already delivering smart maintenance. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2003
John Teresko |
View Machinery As 'Functional' Is your maintenance capability able to support the growing business velocity that manufacturing technology enables? |
Food Processing
February 2011
Bob Sperber |
Plant Floor Efficiency: There's an App for...That? Key performance indicators and overall equipment effectiveness are coming to the plant floor, the front office and now your smart phone. |
IndustryWeek
June 23, 2010 |
Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2002
Tonya Vinas |
Technologies Of The Year -- Entek XM Series Rockwell Automation's asset-management solution combines machine monitoring and protection into an open-standards, distributed system. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2007 |
Manufacturing Matters, But Who Can Deliver? Mature organizations are shifting from reactive to proactive strategies when it comes to capital and human asset productivity. |
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
July 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Factories Of The Future -- Plant-Floor Strategy The most crucial investment for the factory of the future will be made not in hardware or software, but in understanding how manufacturing technology provides new options to power business success. |
Food Engineering
December 1, 2008
Richard F. Stier |
Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Making Machine Tools Smarter The new challenge for machine tools is mass customization. Now with a shortened time to market and greater product variability, an added challenge becomes one of making the first part correct. The solution: making the machine tool smarter. |
Food Processing
February 2010
Bob Sperber |
Plant Upgrades on a Budget ... With Quick Paybacks Whether your food and beverage manufacturing budget is slowly rebounding or your big projects are still on hold, lots of upgrades can be accomplished quickly to offer both rapid returns and long-term gains. |
Food Engineering
July 18, 2006
Kevin T. Higgins |
Standardization: The next frontier Standardized parts could lower costs and inventory requirements, but food-plant maintenance teams aren't interested in just rock-bottom options. |
Food Processing
June 2011
Bob Sperber |
Modular Automation Allows for Food Manufacturing Flexibility From the PC to the Internet revolution, standard, modular software objects are the key to easier manufacturing agility and integration. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
June 23, 2010 |
Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment performance. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance. |
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 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 Engineering
October 1, 2005
Wayne Labs |
Process Control Performance Management If you've been waiting to update your control technologies just to satisfy the government, you might want to rethink your goals in terms of maximizing your profits. Manufacturers that have already updated now have the edge. |
IndustryWeek
August 17, 2011 |
Five Common Lean Maintenance Missteps How to avoid the five most common mistakes made by manufacturers on their journey to lean maintenance. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
Jill Jusko |
OEE: The Heart of the Matter Measuring overall equipment effectiveness can help a plant do more of what it does best: making products. |
Food Engineering
April 2, 2007 |
Redefining Process Control The new, connected world of supply chains is redefining the way food processors do business, and it's also redefining the expectations of process control systems to meet new business demands. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2005
Doug Bartholomew |
Operations: New Ideas For Smooth Systems A move to outsourcing and a shift toward enterprise resource planning software for maintenance applications are among the key trends taking place in the market for maintenance, repair and operations software. |
Food Processing
November 2012 |
MRO Q&A: Decreasing Downstream Delays Too many times we have to throw away product because of the effect of downstream delays. Do you have any ideas on how to decrease these? |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Machine Life Prognosticator Georgia Tech engineering instructor develops sensor-based predictive maintenance model. |
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 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. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2007
John Teresko |
PLM's MRO Opportunity PLM can manage inventory, procurement to maintenance. |
Food Processing
March 2012
G. Keith Diepstra |
Leading for a Culture of Improvement The improvement culture in the food industry is weak, because leadership in the food industry has a weak understanding of improvement. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2009 |
Tech Update: Process Control The need to get information from the plant floor on a real-time basis is an important issue |
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 2008 |
How Worthwhile is Lube and Oil Analysis? Answers to your questions about lubrication and oil analysis in the food processing industry. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008 |
IT Solutions Technology solutions for all aspects of business. |
Food Engineering
April 4, 2006
John Blanchard |
Giant steps in plant floor control Factory floor control and information systems play a critical role in plant floor performance and manufacturing responsiveness. |
IndustryWeek
June 23, 2010 |
Culture Counts 'When you embark on lean, you're not just trying to engage the hands of your employees. You want their hands, their hearts and their minds,' Mike Fitzgerald, director of lean and reliability services for Advanced Technology Services Inc. asserts. |
IndustryWeek
February 15, 2012
Jill Jusko |
Six Keys to an Effective Lubrication Program Following these steps will help drive down equipment failures. |
