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Non-Contact Technology for Accurately Measuring Volume in Bins, Tanks and Silos

Accurately monitoring inventory in bins, tanks and silos has been revolutionized with acoustics-based, non-contact 3DLevelScanners that accurately measure the level and volume of powders, granules and...

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Reducing Contamination Risks of Compressed Air in Food Plants

The objective of this technical paper is to benchmark published Good Manufacturing Practices as they relate to compressed air use in a food processing facility in both a HACCP and/or Global Food Safety...

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Washing Down Drives Without Washing Away Profits

Food manufacturers and processors may be spending unnecessary time cleaning and sanitizing certain power transmission drive systems, leading to lower productivity levels and reduced profits.

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Meeting Today’s Fresh Food Challenges

Delivering fresher foods with software that won’t expire. Read how today’s food and beverage companies are meeting that challenge.

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Six Key Reasons to Convert to Hygienic Internal Gear Pumps for Food, Pharma...

Which pump is best for my food plant? It depends! The advantages and disadvantages of various hygienic pumping technologies are discussed, with special emphasis on positive displacement pumps.

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Chocolate Handling Tips for Food Processors

Whether you are making chocolate liquor from cocoa beans, enrobing cookies in white chocolate, or metering a special dark blend into ice cream, you can benefit from some of these tips on handling...

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EdgeWave Pharmaceutical Sector Cyber Security Guide

As part of the healthcare industry, pharmaceutical manufacturers are obligated to comply with HIPPA rules designed to protect sensitive patient health information (PHI).

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EdgeWave Food and Agriculture Sector Cyber Security Guide

Regulated food and agriculture sector facilities, producers, processors and distributers of all sizes are expected to have voluntarily adopted and implemented a functional food defense plan by 2015.

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Manufacturing Cyber Security Guide

Our world has been radically transformed by digital technology – smart phones, tablets, and web-enabled devices have altered the way we manage production and do commerce. At the same time, technology...

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How Food Manufacturers can Reduce Waste and Save Money with ERP

A recent report identified the reduction of food waste as the top food industry trend of 2014, and the food industry’s concern with food waste should continue for many years. Efforts to reduce food...

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Are you prepared for the reshaping of the food industry safety legislation?

The act greatly extends the powers and authority of the FDA over the entirety of the food system, from farm to table. Companies need to invest in much-expanded testing, documentation, and auditing...

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Improving transparency in Food Manufacturing

Many food companies do not have a clear understanding of what transparency means, why to pursue it, what it involves, or how to improve it. This white paper outlines the key elements of transparency...

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PROACTIVELY MANAGE FOOD SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE WITH INTEGRATED ERP

This report uncovers the challenges that today’s food and beverage manufacturers face, as well as the capabilities they have enabled through ERP to improve compliance, profit margins, and customer...

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Improving the profits of orange juice packaging companies

Refractometers are used to continuously monitor the concentrations of liquids used in the food and beverage, chemical, energy, and metalworking industries, among others. Download this research study to...

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Processing Profitability

The food and beverage industry deals with narrow operating margins, rapidly changing customer preferences, and highly perishable items on a daily basis. Although current supply chain management (SCM)...

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Food Safety & Compliance with Integrated ERP Report

Food and beverage manufacturers find staying in compliance and dealing with the negative effects of non-compliance among their top pressures. Mandates such as the Food Safety Modernization Act and GS1...

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What Customers Are Really Paying For Your Products

Price affects competitive position, influences the number of units to be sold and is a critical factor in achieving an optimal product and margin mix. Tens of thousands of pricing decisions are...

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Ingredients of a Successful Pricing Project in the Food Industry

Through the 2012 acquisition of two industry leaders and continued business growth, BRF (formerly Brasil Foods) has emerged as the world’s seventh largest food company and number one in its home...

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Craving Higher Margins? Proactive Pricing For The Food Industry

Most food manufacturers and distributors feel this way. Whether it’s constantly changing commodity prices, rising energy costs, powerful customers or over-present competitors, your pricing strategy and...

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Stop Wasting Your Sales Team's Time: 5 Productivity Killers

If you tell a food manufacturer that their sales reps only spend 10 percent of their time selling the company’s products and services, it sounds like the reps aren’t doing their job. But statistics...

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Understanding the Challenges of Business Intelligence

For manufacturers of all sizes, competing in an increasingly dynamic marketplace means having the ability to understand and respond to change. To attain, sustain and further competitive standing in...

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Understanding the Challenges of Business Intelligence

For manufacturers of all sizes, competing in an increasingly dynamic marketplace means having the ability to understand and respond to change. To attain, sustain and further competitive standing in...

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Is Your ERP System Built for Your Industry?

Most ERP enterprise applications have three major components: manufacturing, distribution and finance. In the world of process manufacturing, quality management--since it is so imbedded in all the...

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Collaboration as a Key to Success in Retail

This white paper uncovers the challenges FMCG retailers and manufacturers face, the benefits of a better collaboration and the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) capabilities available to improve it,...

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The Use of Pinch Valves in Food and Beverage

One important focus of the food and beverage market is ensuring that its consumer products are created, packaged and consumed by the public in the safest way possible.  To ensure that this important...

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