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Sierra Nevada Brewing saves megabucks in energy costs
California brewer saves hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs by augmenting solar power with micro-turbines powered by natural gas, along with a giant one megawatt-hour battery to store power for off-peak use.
Sanderson Farms expands market reach with new facility in North Carolina
The plant will eventually process 1.25 million birds every week, enabling the company to expand its deboning market target by 12 percent.
PMMIU’s Risk Assessment Workshop scheduled for April 2 – 3
This special workshop will be held in Chicago just prior to the inaugural ProFood Tech show.
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Achieving Capital Project Excellence with Factory Acceptance Tests
Discover the value of Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) and best practices for performing them in this webinar. Jose Rios, Senior Engineering Director at NBTY, explains how his company benefitted from FAT work during a recent implementation, and how using a comprehensive FAT checklist can pay off long-term for CPGs.
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Leveraging OEE to Boost Plant Efficiency
Learn how leaders at Land O'Lakes and GlaxoSmithKline boost performance of processing and packaging lines by using industry best practices and tools from PMMI's OpX Leadership Network—including an OEE calculator. Speakers share how they used the calculator to unify internal stakeholders around identification and prioritization of improvement efforts.
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Schneider Electric invests in immersive technology
The company’s acquisition of MWPowerlab S.r.l. expands virtual and augmented reality capabilities across Schneider Electric’s simulation and enterprise asset management portfolio.
Automation + jobs: Not a zero-sum equation
The advance of automation is eliminating some jobs. It’s also creating others. The disconnect between these two realities is not that good jobs in industry no longer exist, but that the requirements have changed.
Packaging
Dropping water weight
A complete line approach recognizes the roles that lightweight and safe packaging, quality equipment, line design and smart automation play in meeting the challenges of the bottled water market.
HPP baby food in a pouch is So Good
New So Good Baby refrigerated fruit and vegetable purees in a flexible, windowed pouch use HPP to preserve the flavor, nutrients and color of the products while providing a 60-day shelf life.
Smaller, safer and renewable packaging to take center stage at interpack 2017
Improved barrier and MAP functionality innovations will also be on display at the Düsseldorf, Germany expo.
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Conveyor belts withstand tensions up to 400 lb. at 100,000 cycles
Ashworth Omni-Grid 360 Weld grid-style spiral/turn-curve conveyor belts feature buttonless welds that have no surface imperfections or crevices.
Centrifugal pump designed for the food industry
Alfa Laval LKH centrifugal pump meets the requirements of sanitary product treatment and chemical resistance.
Performance management solution pinpoints manufacturing bottlenecks
Built on the TrakSYS software platform, the Parsec real-time OEE performance management solution collects and aggregates data from multiple sources.
Case packer has coupled design
Cama North America IF292 Monoblock case packer features a small footprint and erects, top loads and closes RSC cases.
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