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Food Engineering December 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier	Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits.
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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 Processing September 2009	MRO Q&A: How Can Plant Managers Keep up with All the Changes Happening in Every Area of Food Plant Operations? 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 November 2009	MRO Q&A: Where can I access a maintenance and sanitation SOP? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants.
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 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 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.
IndustryWeek August 17, 2011	Five Common Lean Maintenance Missteps How to avoid the five most common mistakes made by manufacturers on their journey to lean maintenance.
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 August 1, 2007 John Teresko	Profiting From Proactive Maintenance In addition to safeguarding production schedules, proactive maintenance adds new efficiencies and revenue potential, too.
Food Processing July 2010	MRO Q&A: What's a Large, Older Plant to Do? Every facility has just two basic elements to offer: location and people.
Food Processing August 2010	MRO Q&A: How and where can I benchmark downtime and uptime in the bagged salad industry? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants.
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 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.
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.
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.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment performance.
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IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Jonathan Katz	Leveraging Lean Designs Think flow and flexibility when designing or relocating to a new facility.
IndustryWeek February 15, 2012 Jill Jusko	TPM Delivers a Maintenance Fix Laminations saw an opportunity to improve its maintenance activities. Total Productive Maintenance provided the solution.
Food Processing July 2012	MRO Q&A: What is the standard for how much work can be done in a normal shift? The honest answer is "it depends." You can go out to the web and find theoretical "wrench time" values in different types of industries, but they can only be used as guidelines.
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 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 March 2012	MRO Q&A: Assigning Numbers to Maintenance What is a reasonable ratio of plant maintenance expense to plant sales output?
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.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	ATS Crosses The Border Machine maintenance outsourcing provider Advanced Technology Services Inc. could provide some relief for Mexican plants seeking skilled labor with the establishment of its first international office in Monterrey, Mexico.
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.
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Delegate It! You can avoid many distractions in your advisory practice by applying the rule of the four D's to every task, in this order: Drop it, defer it, delegate it, and do it.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Culture Counts 'When you embark on lean, you're not just trying to engage the hands of your employees. You want their hands, their hearts and their minds,' Mike Fitzgerald, director of lean and reliability services for Advanced Technology Services Inc. asserts.
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 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?
The Motley Fool June 4, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Spend a Little, Save a Lot It's easy to neglect regular maintenance on things like your home and your car. But even though paying for upkeep is a constant drain on your checkbook, that slow trickle of money will hopefully prevent an avalanche of costs from crashing down on you.
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?
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Food Engineering July 1, 2009	Facility overhaul provides improved equipment maintenance Key factors in the selection included application specificity, longevity and maintenance.
Food Processing October 2012	MRO Q&A: Legislation on Food Plant Maintenance Issues Where can I find information on legislation on food plant maintenance issues?
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IndustryWeek July 1, 2002 John Teresko	Factories Of The Future -- Plant-Floor Strategy The most crucial investment for the factory of the future will be made not in hardware or software, but in understanding how manufacturing technology provides new options to power business success.
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IndustryWeek April 15, 2009 John Teresko	Maintenance Outsourcing As a Global Strategy Last year, Lockheed Martin selected a single source for comprehensive global maintenance services. Shouldn't you?
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