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Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.

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Plant Construction

37th Annual Plant Construction Survey: Hygienic design for safe food

Wayne Labs

June 9, 2014

As FSMA gels, processors are concerned about safe food and plants while stepping up product output with the same energy inputs.

Food safety management systems

The right tools enable long-term success

Wayne Labs

June 9, 2014

HACCP can’t do it all. A food safety management system uses several tools to promote food safety and prevent recalls. After a recall, it may be too late to save your business.

Manufacturing News

Cheap energy—but for how long?

Wayne Labs

June 9, 2014

The lower price of natural gas has unfortunately caused some users to take short-term views of energy prices.

Engineering R&D

A grain of sand, a whole lot of track and trace

Wayne Labs

June 4, 2014

Microscopic tags made of silicon dioxide (silica) can be mixed with many foods and liquids not only to trace the origin of contaminated meat, but also track and find potential fraudsters.

Food Safety

Food Safety Summit 2014 focuses on FSMA

Wayne Labs

May 6, 2014

More than 1,500 food safety professionals gathered at BNP Media’s 16th Annual Food Safety Summit (FSS) last month in Baltimore, MD to learn about the latest FSMA updates and how they will affect their companies’ businesses.

Food Safety

Semper paratus! Food defense depends on it

“Always prepared” is good advice for protecting the food supply, and it’s the law.

Wayne Labs

May 6, 2014

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” is a line made famous by the Monty Python troupe.

Engineering R&D

Making ammonia safer and more efficient in refrigeration applications

Borne out of necessity, new ammonia refrigeration technology uses 1 percent of the refrigerant quantity of previous systems and increases efficiency.

Wayne Labs

May 6, 2014

Not all refrigerated food and beverage warehouses have the luxury of being located away from people in wide-open spaces next to an interstate and a railroad spur.

A CMMS such as Bigfoot CMMS can provide a quick search on parts and supplies with drill down information on part names and numbers.

Maintenance Software

CMMS provides enhanced functionality

Wayne Labs

April 8, 2014

Maintenance staff can’t do their jobs if they spend more time on paperwork than maintenance.

Buhler Aeroglide's hygienically designed dryer has an open frame design, which uses a formed channel with a minimum surface finish of 32 Ra, 2B SS.

Sanitary Equipment Design

Wayne Labs

April 8, 2014

Depending on the application and the country, design rules and standards can vary, causing headaches for machine builders as they try to make designs more universal.

The Industrial Internet of Things enables new business models.

Manufacturing News

Talking outside the box: Are we connected yet?

The industrial "internet of things" is close at hand—or already here.

Wayne Labs

March 8, 2014

The recent ARC Industry Forum, held in Orlando FL, described an “industrial Internet of Things” (IoT) as being close at hand. In fact, many of the technologies are already here, but some still need work to provide the services and security industrial operations need.

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