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August 17, 2011 |
Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy in Real Time Mobile technologies are helping manufacturers innovate and manage today's challenges while setting the stage for ongoing improvements in customer engagement, profitability and cost efficiency in the years to come. |
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Profiting From Proactive Maintenance In addition to safeguarding production schedules, proactive maintenance adds new efficiencies and revenue potential, too. |
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You Know It's Time To Outsource Your Manufacturing Technology/Engineering Needs... A Top Ten list of reasons why outsourcing manufacturing makes sense. |
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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. |
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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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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
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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 Engineering
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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
March 1, 2008
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The Business Case for Better Maintenance It seems a stretch, but a plant's maintenance department can be a profit center. |
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. |
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February 2011
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Maintenance's New Player: The CIO Manufacturing's wealth of IT data is being parlayed into new maintenance-management strategies... |
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Managing Expectations -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Comments Given the chance to weigh in on the state of the industry, their companies and their employees, manufacturing managers reveal what you always suspected: Things are tough out there, and they're likely to only get tougher. |
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August 2008
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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. |
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March 2012
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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
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Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits. |
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
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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. |
IndustryWeek
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Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance. |
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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. |
