Food Manufacturing - May/June 2015

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in food manufacturers, as fines, product recalls, and irreparable brand damage loom as potential fates for companies that lack the appropriate processes and technology to handle the coming turn of the screw.

What were once opportunistic and nice-to-have investments in APM technology are becoming critical to maintaining compliance and remaining competitive, with maintenance professionals taking notice.

Reliability Centered Maintenance and Condition Based Maintenance vendors are gaining ground in the F&B industries, spurred by this necessity to address increased risk. The key strength of failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and corresponding risk assessment will play extremely well in the industry going forward.

1.) Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (Io T) is never more than a passing conversation away in the manufacturing industries today, but much of the current chatter concerns future capabilities and operational visions that may take decades to come into focus.

Even though the Io T conversation is mostly forward looking, that doesn’t mean that success stories are not currently being written that leverage its technology, and one of the early places where it’s proven effective is APM. And this success will grow through 2015.

In industries from airlines to water treatment, APM professionals are using Io T-generated data to facilitate better con-dition-based and reliability-centered maintenance and achieve new levels of uptime, reductions in unplanned maintenance, and increased customer satisfaction.