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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 September 2009	MRO Q&A: Any Insights on Moisture Related Issues? 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 December 2011	MRO Q&A: Linking Health and Safety to Productivity How can I link my operation's health and safety measures to our performance and productivity measures to create a clearer picture for management of how these two measurement groupings are interrelated?
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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 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 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 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?
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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 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 Engineering December 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier	Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits.
Food Processing March 2012	MRO Q&A: A Reasonable Figure for Maintenance Downtime Downtime numbers are as unique as the process you are trying to run. The most important facet of downtime is getting everyone affected in agreement of the reasonable expectation.
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 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?
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine.
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 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?
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.
Wall Street & Technology April 27, 2004 Larry Tabb	Finding Value in an Ever-Efficient World I recently attended a conference at which a presenter discussed a new view of operational management. An organization should treat the operation as a life cycle with developmental, nurturing and maturity stages.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance.
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 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 March 2012	MRO Q&A: Assigning Numbers to Maintenance What is a reasonable ratio of plant maintenance expense to plant sales output?
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 Processing May 2005 Mike Pehanich	How to retrofit an aging plant Food processors looking to retrofit aging facilities to get more out of their capital budgets should heed these "rules of retro" before they bring their plants into the 21st century.
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.
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Food Processing September 2011 Greg Flickinger	How Snyder's-Lance Transformed its Plant Into High Performance Work System Snyder's-Lance developed a culture of continuous improvement at the Charlotte manufacturing site to deliver the numbers with near-zero capital investment. You can, too.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2009 Jonathan Katz	The 'Soft Side' of Lean Companies may be losing half their potential savings from lean programs when they overlook the need for leaders who are capable of implementing continuous-improvement plans.
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 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.
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.
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 2013	MRO Q&A: What Is a Good Volume of Capital Projects? My maintenance guys really love working on capital and improvement projects, but I am getting behind on my PMs and I am over my budget because of the projects. Any suggestions on changes I can make?
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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.
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Food Engineering February 1, 2005 Richard F. Stier	It's a food plant, not a garage Many food plant operators and managers hear "plant safety audit" and think about the processing area. But one of the most common problem areas is actually the shop and/or maintenance department. Here are some guidelines to make sure yours passes muster.
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Food Processing January 2012	MRO Q&A: The Pros and Cons of Using a Contract Maintenance Service Given the right situation, contracting for maintenance services can be very effective in allowing you to focus on your main competency: making food.
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 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?