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Equipment Round Up: Motors and Drives

Rev up your processing engines as we take a look at the latest motors and drives available for the food processing industry.
Post Date: 07/09/2010
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Equipment Round Up: Conveyors

Our May equipment Round Up focuses on conveyors and conveyor systems.
Post Date: 05/10/2010
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Equipment Round-Up: Instrumentation & process control

November's equipment round-up features instrumentation and process control equipment, including coriolis solutions, industrial computers and microprocessor-based controllers truck.
Post Date: 11/19/2007
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Risky business: Counterfeit and fake parts

The savings can be short-term when replacing OEM parts and assemblies with ones of questionable origin.
Post Date: 11/15/2007
Author: Bob McDougall, Contributing Editor

Tips to avoid counterfeits

With the growth of counterfeit parts, there are a number of practices that management, plant and maintenance personnel can take to avoid them.
Post Date: 11/15/2007
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From the WWFE Floor: The importance of using OEM replacement pump parts

Managing Editor David Feder discusses the importance of using OEM replacement parts for pumps with Bill Rice, integration manager for SPX Process Equipment Corp.
Post Date: 11/02/2007
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Web Seminar: Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy
The Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, associated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, offers a web-based seminar featuring speakers from Bendix Commercial Vehicles, Ernst & Young and the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.
Post Date: 10/29/2007
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Clean and mean

Employee hygiene goes ‘hand in hand’ with food safety.
Post Date: 10/09/2007
Author: Mike Pehanich, Plant Operations Editor

Five steps to better hygiene

Ecolab offers these five measures to increase the hygiene levels of plant personnel:
Post Date: 10/09/2007
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Equipment Round-Up: Material handling

October's equipment round-up features material handling equipment, including pallet dispensers, a vacuum gripper system, floor and paddle scrapers, and a pantographic reach truck.
Post Date: 10/09/2007
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Equipment Round-Up: Lubricants

September's equipment round-up features lubricants, including heat transfer fluids, white mineral oils, new gear oils, and synthetic lubricants made especially for canning.
Post Date: 09/20/2007
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Wire, cable and connectors are crucial

As the use of wire and connectors increases with added networking functions and interoperability — and decreases, as networks simplify — cabling has become forever crucial in industrial networking applications.
Post Date: 09/18/2007
Author: Jim Montague, executive editor, Control Design, and Jill Russell, managing ...

Electrical connectors withstand rigors of harsh environmments

A carton and plastic packaging systems manufacturer and a packaging machinery manufacturer each had various problems with the electrical connectors they were using. Learn how they improved operations by changing connnectors.
Post Date: 09/17/2007
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The changing fortunes of food manufacturing

The food industry may not be ready for lights-out automation, but some next-generation manufacturing models are taking hold.
Post Date: 09/07/2007
Author: Mike Pehanich, Plant Operations Editor, and Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief

Kraft’s cost-cutting model

Many Top 100© processors have been cutting fat from their manufacturing as part of formal manufacturing initiatives for a decade.
Post Date: 09/07/2007
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Just a touch of automation

Brown & Haley improves productivity 10 percent while keeping manual packing with machines found at Pack Expo.
Post Date: 08/20/2007
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Keeping the Air Out

Adding ingredients under vacuum and other solutions to mixing and blending challenges.
Post Date: 08/20/2007
Author: Mike Pehanich, Plant Operations Editor

Equipment Round-Up: Motors & drives

July's equipment round-up features motor and drive equipment, including a adjustable speed drives, soft-start motors, motors equipped with internal coders, and aseptic servo modules.
Post Date: 07/17/2007
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Detecting foreign matter

Advances in detection technologies are helping to make the food supply safer than ever. Plus, these machines can do other things, as well.
Post Date: 07/16/2007
Author: Mike Pehanich, Plant Operations Editor

Equipment Round-Up: Metal detection

June's equipment round-up features metal detection equipment, including a fluorescent laser sorter, free-fall detection equipment, vertical detectors, and hygienic separators.
Post Date: 06/14/2007
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