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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 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.
Food Engineering September 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins	The State of Food Manufacturing From recall readiness to raw material and energy costs, Food Engineering readers weigh in on issues affecting workers and the workplace for food manufacturing.
Food Engineering October 1, 2005 Kevin T. Higgins	State of Food Manufacturing: Period of Polarization Emerges The middle ground is shrinking as processors gravitate to one extreme or another in their approach to food and beverage manufacturing.
Food Engineering October 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins	Packaging Trends Study With customers demanding less material waste and manufacturing looking for ways to trim transportation costs, the trend toward sustainable packaging is gathering momentum.
Food Processing August 2005 Mike Pehanich	MRO strategies mean money in the bank Redundant purchasing and poor inventory management have cost companies millions of dollars for generations. But there are mountains of savings waiting to be found in maintenance, repairs and operations costs.
Food Engineering October 4, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins	State of Food Manufacturing Materials issues are emerging as defining factors in today's food and beverage industry.
Food Engineering July 1, 2005 Joyce Fassl	Summertime--and the living's not so easy While there still may be Internet doubters among our readership today (34 percent do not use the net for ordering parts), the need for rapid spare parts delivery surely drives the 50 percent jump in Internet usage.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jonathan Katz	Census Of Manufacturers -- Drifting Apart Manufacturers are moving farther away from their partners and, in the process, becoming less integrated.
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 July 22, 2009 Steve Mehltretter	Consider This -- Making MRO Inventories Play by the Rules Well-managed maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) inventory can reduce costs and improve service levels.
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 March 1, 2007 Traci Purdum	Vendor-Managed Inventory: Size Matters Vendor-managed inventory works best when money talks.
Food Processing October 2008 Dave Fusaro	Supply Chain Pains Who's managing whom? In a year of unprecedented pressures, our exclusive joint survey finds a tug of war between food processors and their suppliers.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2009 Nick Zubko	Getting More from MRO Knowing the capabilities of maintenance, repair, and operations suppliers can help manufacturers keep costs down.
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 Engineering July 2, 2007 Joyce Fassl	Renewed commitment to employee training may be the ticket For decades, plant worker training issues have continued to plague the industry.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2005 Tonya Vinas	IW Value-Chain Survey: A Map Of The World A 2005 Value-Chain Survey sets benchmarks for global manufacturers in procurement, new product development, supply-chain planning and logistics.
Food Processing January 2013 David Phillips	2013 Manufacturing Trends Survey: Labor, not Energy, the Concern in 2013 While economic uncertainty remains, respondents expect more growth.
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.
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IndustryWeek October 1, 2004 George Taninecz	Partially Made In China Most U.S. industries are making China a cog in their supply chain -- even while many manufacturers in those sectors are losing sales and profits to the Chinese.
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 Engineering September 5, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins	Packaging Trends Survey: The Year of Living Sustainably The sustainable packaging bandwagon is gathering momentum, and most food and beverage companies are on board.
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 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.
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IndustryWeek February 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance.
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.
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IndustryWeek April 1, 2004 George Taninecz	Faster But Not Better Improved manufacturing times don't always result in comparable cost reductions.
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, 2001 John Teresko	Maintenance's New Player: The CIO Manufacturing's wealth of IT data is being parlayed into new maintenance-management strategies...
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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 September 1, 2003 Tonya Vinas	It Starts With Parts Manufacturers find outsourcing of equipment parts often the first step in improving MRO strategy.
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 November 1, 2007 David Blanchard	Special Report: Manufacturing in China: Taming the Dragon A look at the current state of manufacturing operations in China.
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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 Engineering September 1, 2005 Kevin T. Higgins	Food Plant of Tomorrow For half a century, the US food industry pursued the goal of the most food at the least cost, and its plants delivered on that goal. But today, identity preservation, waste solutions, new consumer tastes and other considerations are shaping a new breed of food plants.
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