Food Processing - September 2007 - (Page 36) MANUFACTURING MODELS companies are building their engineering ranks back up and expanding their core. “It’s being done quietly,” he continues, “and not everyone is doing it, of course. It’s a subtle shift.” Cherok sees no processor clearly “on the leading edge” today when it comes to answering the challenge of being simultaneously lean, agile and effective with its use of combined staff and third-party talent, but he sees more of a balance than in past years. Automation and information Ambitious labor reduction coupled with precise process control and maximum yield are core manufacturing goals across the industry, and have been for some time. The difference is that today some plants are realizing those goals. Automation and information technology are filling the gap, which accounts, in part, for the diminished emphasis on line teams and growing emphasis on alliance teams. In some highly automated plants, there aren’t – or soon won’t be – enough operators devoted to a line to even call a team. But even these automation and information investments need strong proof of payback, particularly in light of high-profile systems failures, such as the one Hershey suffered a few years back during its critical Halloween production season. Batch software standardization is a slowly growing component of food plant automation, but its early adopters say the payback is New Zealand Milk Products’ Whareroa facility collects plant-floor data for better control of the process via Rockwell Software’s RSSql industrial transaction system. cal and mechanical capability. It also has strengthened engineering capability at each of its plants. Each facility has an engineering director responsible for projects and maintenance. Other companies, too, may be swinging back to greater staff control of engineering. “In the ’80s and ’90s, many cut their engineering staffs but kept processing and packaging engineers,” says Greg Cherok, Cincinnati-based business development manager for Lockwood Greene/CH2M Hill (www.ch2m.com). “Now many 36 • FOOD PROCESSING SEPTEMBER 2007 WWW.FOODPROCESSING.COM http://www.ch2m.com http://www.pacificozone.com http://www.cleanrental.com http://www.pacificozone.com http://www.cleanrental.com http://www.foodprocessing.com
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