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When you buy an RTE meal today, most often it’s not in an aluminum tray. If you’re conscientious about recycling, you probably think, "here’s another unrecyclable piece of plastic"— because once you heat it in the microwave, you can’t clean the tray well enough to recycle it. What’s the solution? Well, there’s the old standby—aluminum.

It is estimated that electric motors account for 45 per cent of global electricity demand. That’s not surprising when you consider that they’re used to drive everything from pumps and fans to compressors in industries as varied as industrial, commercial, agricultural and transport.

Associated Milk Producers Inc. has announced a recall of dry whey powder due to the potential for Salmonella contamination.

Land O’Lakes has selected Beth Ford as president and CEO of one of America’s largest food and agricultural cooperatives. Ford will officially take over on August 1, to replace the retiring Chris Policinski.

Former Food Engineering editor Charles Morris Jr. passed away July 12 at the age of 84.

The Food Processing Suppliers Association has announced the creation of new membership groups that are designed to offer members opportunities to network and collaborate with other professionals in their areas of expertise.

Moving to a web-based CMMS implementation has the potential to save money for companies that are self-hosting the systems internally, but robust security is a necessity.

In Part one of this article, published in the July 2018 issue of Food Engineering, we looked at the costs of reactive maintenance strategies, preventive maintenance (PM), risk-based PM strategies—and whether any form of PM could provide the depth-of-maintenance knowledge as that of a predictive maintenance (PdM) system. In the second part of this article, we’ll look at TPM, integrating CMMS and EAM systems with ERP systems, training and manpower issues and IIoT integration.