Food Manufacturing

Just-in-time maintenance via mGuard remote service

Machine operators such as NestlÃ© and Unilever expect 100 per cent system availability. Therefore, machine builder Big Drum Engineering sees demand-oriented maintenance and fast troubleshooting via remote service as key to this increasingly critical success factor. In providing these, the company places great emphasis on safety and security.

24th September 2015

igus e-chains help keep frost at bay

The seemingly simple bag of peas can, in addition to being a bag of tasty foodstuff, be used to provide handy relief of pain and inflammation from sports injuries. But have you ever wondered how the food processing industry can freeze peas individually?

4th September 2015

Tsubaki chain delivers trouble-free service for over 8 years

Maintaining food production lines requires expertise and specialist products to ensure efficient and reliable operation. For a popular chocolate manufacturer, there was one production line that was experiencing chain elongation and contamination of the chain lubricant that was causing loss of production. Switching to Tsubaki Lambda Lube Free chain resulted in considerable savings in maintenance costs as well as improved production reliability.

27th August 2015

Bürkert valve expertise delivers a premium shower experience

Trying to find the perfect shower temperature before getting in is a morning ritual for many of us, while avoiding the temperature fluctuations when a cold tap is turned on are a frequent aggravation. However, for those in the market for a premium showering experience, these worries can be washed away thanks to the use of valve technology from Bürkert, which has been integrated into a shower control system to provide the ultimate in active temperature and pressure control.

7th August 2015

NSK bearings deliver large saving for fish processor

Interrupting a continuous manufacturing process occasionally because of a bearing failure can be irritating, but when the failures become more frequent the costs in lost production start to mount up. For one large producer of fish products, repeated bearing failures on a heat exchanger unit demanded attention, which led to NSK delivering a huge annual saving through the installation of improved bearing technology.

4th August 2015

PLC/HMI unit provides easy, consistent control for craft brewer

Unitronics has supplied a Vision1040 all-in-one PLC/HMI to Twisted Vine, a craft brewer in the USA, to improve control over the brewing process and deliver a consistent, delicious end result.

30th July 2015

Rotech's customised offline coding system overprints pouches

When Nash Tackle suddenly found itself under pressure to include nutrient and ingredient declarations on all of its fishing baits, product feeding and coding specialist Rotech came to the rescue with a flexible offline system capable of overprinting pouches with different data.

24th July 2015

Pumping peanut butter made easy using MasoSine SPS200

Faced with a failing progressive cavity pump when trying to transfer peanut butter from the grinder to a holding tank, a reputable food plant in Pretoria, South Africa, has found a far more reliable and cost effective option in a MasoSine SPS200 process pump from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group.

23rd July 2015

WEG motors drive efficiency in gas compressors

Gas compression is commonly used across a range of industries where refrigeration is required, including food processing and pharmaceuticals. In such contexts, this technology can play a key role in enhancing productivity and energy efficiency. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that ensuring the smooth running of gas compressors is top of the agenda for global manufacturers such as Mayekawa. The company turned to WEG technology to equip its latest packaging compressor units with reliable and highly efficient motors.

14th July 2015

Bürkert hazardous area-rated pneumatics in whisky bottling plant

The combination of Bürkert's AirLINE Ex 8650 valve islands and Siemens intrinsically safe SIMATIC ET 200iSP distributed I/O system is providing a safe, compact and modular pneumatic control system for a global drinks company in Scotland. The equipment has been used in replacement Ex-rated control panels at the company's bottling plant in Glasgow: the fastest whisky bottling plant in the world.

9th June 2015

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