Smartphones on the plant floor: Bring your own device (BYOD) or use company-owned devices? This question no doubt conjures up a multitude of things—good and bad—for personal devices on the plant floor, for example, connecting people with equipment and company data and providing workers with actionable information on the process and maintenance to make good decisions.

Be prepared for food safety interruptions and ensure you have a well-documented contingency plan.

This shrimp farming technique saves the ocean and other fish species.

In the last few years, it seems that hurricanes, tornadoes and resultant flooding have become stronger and stronger. Maybe chalk it up to a warming planet, which amplifies the power of these storms.

Connect process control with building management controls to save energy, improve efficiency.

Known for its industrial line of printers, Videojet has extended networking options for users who need wireless connections but are squeamish about connecting their printers via just Wi-Fi—or Ethernet cabling—to internal plant or enterprise networks.

The problem with a single article describing what’s new in saving energy is that by now we know where most of the energy waste is, and we’ve probably already fixed those issues—picked the low-hanging fruit.

With today’s crowded Wi-Fi bands, cellular may offer a real advantage.

The path toward an easy-to-use, plug-and-play sensor network is finally seeing the light of day.

Residual and potentially dangerous chemicals in food and drinking water have been in the news lately (see this month’s Manufacturing News for an update on PFAS) as one such report found that 80% of urine samples drawn from children and adults in the U.S. contained glyphosate. FOOD ENGINEERING has also had its share of news on heavy metals in food and baby food. Why are we seeing so much contamination?