Food Engineering

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2022 November

The November 2022 issue of FOOD ENGINEERING features the Fabulous Food Plants: From Berry Farming to the Deep Freeze, Be Prepared For Food Safety Interruptions, and much more!

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Facility Innovations

Americold’s facility in Dunkirk, N.Y., was built with LEED certified energy efficiency in mind, and Oishii’s vertical strawberry farm is opening doors for a different variety of vertically farmed produce.
Derrick Teal
Derrick Teal
November 14, 2022

For our coverage of Fabulous Food Plants this year, we decided to do something a little bit different in honor of “plants,” aka flora. When we think of food plants, we almost immediately think of processing facilities, but there’s so much more to food production than the processing plant. So, seeing how plant-based foods are altering the ways consumers think about protein, we decided to alter the way we think about food plants.


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Feature Articles

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Integrating Operations Technology with Building Management Systems 101

When it comes to integrating automated systems within a facility (or with the facility itself), everyone has to start somewhere.
Derrick Teal
Derrick Teal
November 15, 2022

Nearly every industry is full of acronyms. LEED, USGBC, IMP, SIP, ICF, AIA, BIM, CAD, P.E. and ASHRAE are the construction-related acronyms I was able to prattle off without really thinking about it. But keeping straight what they stood for when I first started out took a little bit more time, let alone understanding which was which.


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Smartphones on the plant floor: BYOD or company issued?

Smartphones and other devices make accessing IT/OT systems on the plant floor easier, but the use of personal devices may cause security and legal problems.
Wayne Labs
Wayne Labs
November 22, 2022

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.


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Be Prepared For Food Safety Interruptions

“If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.” (Attributed to Murphy)
Wayne Labs
Wayne Labs
November 9, 2022

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


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Alternative protein products can benefit from phosphates

Achieving a Full Sensory Experience

According to a white paper by Innophos, mechanical processes alone aren’t enough for plant-based alternatives to fully replicate the sensory experience of animal-based protein.
Derrick Teal
Derrick Teal
November 11, 2022

There’s no doubt that the plant-based alternative-protein market is growing. While profitability varies from producer to producer, as a whole the market is growing. Markets and Markets says in one report that the global plant-based meat market is projected to increase from $4.3 billion in 2020 to $8.3 billion in 2025, growing at a CAGR of 14.0%.


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Departments

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maintaining production capacity
Plant Operations

Disruptions are a Reality: Plan Ahead

Having contingency plans for your facility, before disaster strikes, is essential to maintaining production capacity and negating devastating effects of natural disasters, epidemics, supply-chain crises, and other potential disruptions.
Richard F. Stier
Richard F. Stier
November 21, 2022

There are many who believe Murphy is a constant companion of food processors around the world. This is the Murphy as in Murphy’s Law and, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” This may seem rather pessimistic, but it is a fact of life especially for those who are long-time members of the industry.


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Freezing & Cooling
Plant Operations & Engineering

Tech Update: Freezing & Cooling

Several freezing solutions are available to meet specific applications.
Wayne Labs
Wayne Labs
November 23, 2022

From impingement freezers to automated freezer distribution centers, the goal is to produce and maintain quality products with minimal energy inputs.


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Plant Operations

Reducing Manufacturing Plant Downtime

Remote alarm notification software more critical than ever.
Cody Bann
November 17, 2022

Moving from an automated plant to a smart factory is a leap forward but well worth the effort to enable a fully connected and flexible system—one that can use a constant stream of data from connected equipment and production systems to learn and adapt to new demands.


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Products

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R.A Jones Launches New Multipack Speedup Kit

October 10, 2022

The Orbi-Trak TC-6 speedup kit for Meridian XR machines is designed to allow beverage and food manufacturers to run a variety of canned product configurations at a reported surge speed of 345 cartons per minute.



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New Ductless Workstation

October 10, 2022

The MicroFlow II is a Class 1 ductless carbon filtered workstation equipped with activated carbon filtration, for fumes, odors and non-hazardous chemical vapors.


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