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On-the-job fatalities have declined by a third over the last 20 years, but there’s no room for complacency for industry leaders who consider workplace safety a continuous improvement mission.

Of the six prestigious award winners, Frito-Lay was the only manufacturing plant.

The use of variable frequency drives also improves operational efficiency throughout refrigeration infrastructure.

A McDonald’s supplier designs a high-volume bakery that boosts automation to new levels and recasts the role of production floor workers.

The project also includes detecting fraudulently marketed seafood.

Technology combining a refrigerating plant and a downstream heat pump saves energy.

Retail success stories involving aseptic products have been modest, but the technology is finding a growing niche in nonrefrigerated distribution.

Adding oxygen and removing nitrogen and other dissolved gases from a grow-tank can be a cost-prohibitive process for fish farmers, but new oxygenation technology significantly changes the cost equation.
 

New step-by-step approach provides road map for innovation success.

Be it ever so humble, overall equipment efficiency is the focus of a growing number of plant automation projects, adding another component to the continuous improvement tool kit.