Food & Beverage

• Sterilizing Canned Foods and Beverages: Hydrostatic Cookers

  Sterilizing Canned Foods and Beverages: Hydrostatic Cookers If your company is in food and beverage manufacturing, you know the requirements of in-can sterilization. This is usually done in high volume operations with a continuous cooker process using either a hydrostatic (vertical) cooker or a rotary (horizontal) Cooker. Here is a profile of the Hydrostatic Cooker […]

  Read MoreBrad Walbolt / 3D Laser Scanning / Food & Beverage Engineering / Industrial automation engineering / Manufacturing Operations Management / Improvement / Management / bwalbolt /

• Food Manufacturing Case Study: Leveraging a Virtual Environment for an HMI Migration

  Food Manufacturing Case Study: Leveraging a Virtual Environment Many industrial manufacturers requiring plant management system upgrades due to outdated and unsupported platforms are migrating to virtualized environments. Here’s how Matrix Technologies executed a successful migration to a virtualized environment for a large food processing facility. The Advantages of Virtualization Manufacturing systems are increasingly using virtualized […]

  Read MoreMike Dunstan / Food and Beverage Manufacturing / Rockwell Solution Partner / ThinManager / Virtualization / Wonderware System Integrator / Improvement / Management / HMI's / Upgrades / bmcdaniel / mdunstan /

• HTML5 is Here: What Industrial Manufacturers Need to Know

  HTML5 is Here: What Industrial Manufacturers Need to Know One of the newest technology buzzwords to penetrate the industrial manufacturing space is HTML5. HMI platforms are beginning to be based on HTML5. Analysis tools for MES, configuration software, and other products are touting their HTML5 compliance. HTML5 is getting a lot of attention. But what […]

  Read MoreEric Lauber, PE / Automation Integration / HTML5 / Industrial Automatoin Solutions / Manufacturing Operations Management / Manufacturing Process Control / Process Design / Upgrade / Improvement / elauber /

• Thermal Expansion and Piping Stress: Part 2, Stress Analysis and Proper Engineering Prevent Problems

  Thermal Expansion and Piping Stress: Part 2, Stress Analysis and Proper Engineering Prevent Problems This is the second in a three-part series on thermal expansion and piping stress. The first article provided a primer on the basics of the thermal expansion and contraction found in industrial facilities. This article focuses on the importance of proper […]

  Read MoreBill Schuller, PE / Oil & Gas / Pipe Stress / Piping Engineering / Process Engineer / Stress Analysis / Thermal Contraction / Construction / Manufacturing / bschuller /

• How to Achieve Higher OEE Ratings with Data Integration

  How to Achieve Higher OEE Ratings with Data Integration Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is a key barometer of productivity in an industrial manufacturing plant because it provides a single measure of how well the manufacturing process is performing. Manufacturers want high OEE ratings that result from effective use of equipment at the required speed and efficiency […]

  Read MoreJohn Lee / Industrial automation engineering / Manufacturing Intelligence / Manufacturing Operations Management / Manufacturing Process Control / Improvement / Management / Data Management / jlee /

• 10 Best Practices of Preparing for a Machine Risk Assessment

  10 Best Practices of Preparing for a Machine Risk Assessment One of the best ways to promote manufacturing plant safety is a task-based machine risk assessment. But conducting an effective assessment requires taking plant personnel away from their jobs, sometimes for as long as 4-24 hours. This is by far the most common complaint about […]

  Read MoreTim Lemoine, PE / Industrial Automaiton Engineering / Industrial Plant Management / Industrial plant safety / Industrial Safety / Industrial Safety Service / Machine safety / Manufacturing Operations Management / Manufacturing plant safety / Risk Assessment / Safety / Improvement / Upgrades / tlemoine /

• Thermal Expansion Creates Piping Stress: Part 1, What You Need to Know to Prevent Problems

  Thermal Expansion Creates Piping Stress: Part 1, What You Need to Know to Prevent Problems This is the first in a three-part series on thermal expansion and piping stress. This article provides a primer on the basics of the thermal expansion and contraction found in industrial facilities.  The second article focuses on the importance of […]

  Read MoreBill Schuller, PE / Oil & Gas / Pipe Stress / Piping Engineer / Piping Stress / Process Engineer / Stress Analysis / Thermal Contraction / Thermal Expansion / Construction / Manufacturing / bschuller /

• Vision System Inspections: A Simple Approach to a Successful Project

  Vision System Inspections: A Simple Approach to a Successful Project Important Front End Evaluations Implementing proper technique and evaluation on the front end of an industrial automation engineering project produces better results and helps accomplish your goals at completion. This is especially true in food and beverage manufacturing and the consumer packaged goods industry. To determine […]

  Read MoreKevin Overmyer / Effective Lighting / FEED Study / Field Study Application Studies and Testing / Product Orientation / Proper Camera and Software Development / Prototype Systems / System Recommendations / Manufacturing / Packaging Process Improvement / Software / Vision Inspection Cameras / kovermyer /

• Using 3D Laser Scanning for Industrial Plant Design, Part 2: 5 Crucial Benefit Drivers

  3D laser scanning tools can collect substantially more information, safely, more accurately, and in a greatly reduced timeframe. Part 2 of “Using 3D Laser Scanning for Industrial Plant Design: An Engineer’s Guide” explores the benefit drivers of this powerful technology.

  Read MoreMark O'Connell, PE / 3D Laser Scanning / Engineering Services Provider / Industrial automation engineering / Manufacturing Operations Management / Multidiscipline Engineering / Construction / Manufacturing / Planning / 3D Scanning / mroconnell /

• Retrofitting an Aging Control System for Automated Storage and Retrieval

  A major appliance manufacturer upgraded their automated manufacturing process for an overhead storage and delivery system. The control system manages loading, storage, and unloading loops.

  Read MoreEric Tolles, PE / Automated Manufacturing Process / Batch Systems / Improvement / ControlLogix / FTView / Panelview / etolles /