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How digital pneumatics add fast conversion flexibility to food packaging systems
Coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, artificial sweeteners, non-dairy creamer, even spice mixes, nowadays, and more food items are packaged in small, low-cost sachets for take-out, delivery, or for airline and hospital meal trays.
How Surveillance Solutions Can Keep Food and Beverage Manufacturing at the Forefront of Their Operation
There’s no time for downtime in a food and beverage production facility. No matter the cause, interruptions may have deep financial implications.
Manufacturing Best Practices for Preventive Maintenance
How much preventive maintenance should you be doing?
Slippage of Rolling Elements in Ball and Roller Bearings
There is often a discussion about minimum load in bearings to prevent skidding.
However, the issue is more complex than a simple relationship with the applied load to the bearing.
VIDEO: The Skilled Labour Shortage is a Myth
At the recent Maintenance and Reliability in a Changed…
Canadian Dairy Market Aims for Compliance and Meeting Market Demands, Aided by Hygienic Design Solutions
The Canadian dairy sector was influenced by two major trends in 2020: The COVID-19 crisis and the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA).
OPINION: New 2021 Trends in Food and Beverage Industry Brought by COVID-19
EDITOR’S LETTER from June 2021 issue of Food and Beverage Engineering and Maintenance.
Standardize Maintenance and Ensure Safety and Compliance with a CMMS
One of the most common reasons an organization
with multiple plants and locations implements a computerized maintenance management system
(CMMS) is to standardize maintenance operations
and workflow processes.
EMC – Being Competitive in the Food Industry Today
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC), our Food and Beverage…
Repairs, Service, and Ramping Up After COVID-19
Many companies are struggling to get back to normal as COVID-19 concerns are reduced, then raised again.
VIDEO: Future of Manufacturing
At the recent Maintenance and Reliability in a Changed…
How to Improve Long-term Reliability of Heavy Equipment
The strategies to improve equipment reliability have always been a subject of key interest within the community of reliability engineers.
How to Streamline World Class Maintenance and other Equipment Improvement Activities
There are many equipment improvement programs available for maintenance departments with the purpose of improving equipment reliability. Many of these programs fail to produce the improvements they promise for a number of reasons.
OPINION: Maintenance is all-encompassing
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK (June 2021 issue of MRO Magazine)
Digitalization, Operations Technology, and the Importance of Data Quality
The subject of data quality is not a particularly exciting one, and this is likely why it is often overlooked or just pushed off to the side.
VIDEO: Bearing Lubrication and Health Insights Made Simple
At the recent MRO/DE Expo, the on-demand MRO stream…
VIDEO: Effective Asset Management
Discussion on how effective asset management starts with good assets.
MRO Quiz: Troubleshooting power transmission coupling problems
Power transmission couplings connect two shafts that turn in the same direction on one centerline.
Three principle types exist; rigid, flexible and special purpose.
Lightning Strikes with Electric Ford F-150
Electric vehicles are nothing new, they have been around much longer than many people realize. Innovators who have tried to make electricity work in a vehicle, have usually come up against a number of prohibiting factors, with cost usually being on top, but another major factor being consumer adoption.
Talent Canada Addresses How Organizations Can Overcome Hate and Inspire Societal Change
Talent Canada, a national media brand that looks at…
CanREA’s Operations Summit focuses on flexibility issues
The Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) hosted a one-day…
PEMAC’s Lunch and Learn Webcast: Women in Engineering
PEMAC has observed International Women in Engineering Day by…
VIDEO: The Collection and Value of Machine Generated Data
At the recent MRO/DE Expo, the morning keynote was…
VIDEO: Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Examples of Great Results and Why Planning and Scheduling Work.
PEMAC GTA Chapter on Demystifying Machine Learning
PEMAC Asset Management Association of Canada GTA Chapter hosted…
Five Things You Need to Implement a Precision Maintenance Program
Precision maintenance can be used as a process improvement strategy. A strategy that will
pay dividends.
Did the ISO 55000 PC251 miss a word
The PC251 team that developed the asset management – management systems standard 5500X may have missed the one word that is essential for achieving sustainable asset management.
Bearings and Value to Production Facilities
Let’s use an example of a mining/cement operation to illustrate the value that bearings bring to production facilities.
Asset Management – What is it and where did it come from?
Over the last few years, a new term has become more popular in the world of maintenance and reliability and its asset management.
Interview with Andrea Descargar from Green City Plastics Inc.
MRO’s associate editor, Maryam Farag, spoke with Andrea Descargar, Director of Global Supply Chain Development, Green City Plastics Inc., as part of Women in Manufacturing’s Conversations with Industry Leaders series.
