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Jim Cahill
9 Dec 2019
Improved Quality with Mass Flow and Density Measurements
Tom Belling For food & beverage producers, managing the quality of each batch can be challenging when there are manual processes involved. For instance, if the raw materials are manually added, variations can cause batches to fall outside of the recipe’s specification. In a Processing magazine article, Monitoring recipe and batch quality in real-time with flowmeters , Emerson’s Tom Belling highlights these and more...
Jim Cahill
25 Nov 2019
Advancing Hygienic Measurement Instrumentation Diagnostics
Joshua Friesz For food & beverage manufacturers, hygienic processing and automation equipment is a must. Hygienic instrumentation has until recently lacked some of the functionality of instrumentation designed for rugged environments found in industries such as oil & gas production, refining, and chemicals. In a Food Engineering article, Advanced instrumentation technologies provide versatility in food and beverage...
Jim Cahill
12 Sep 2019
Beer Pipeline and Coriolis Flow Measurement Technology
Christian Grossenbacher With the end of summer and the beginning of fall comes football season here in the U.S. And what better way to start the season than a good success story about quality beer production. In a Flow Control Magazine article, Coriolis Meters Keep the Beer Flowing , Emerson’s Christian Grossenbacher shares how a Belgium brewery installs the world’s first beer pipeline with critical flow measurements...
Jim Cahill
29 Aug 2019
Overcoming Citrus Processing Level Measurement Challenges
Don Parry Just imagine that you’re an operator in a facility that makes concentrated orange juice and the production process requires you to manually check the levels of large processing tanks in the freezing process conditions. Parkas and gloves are a part of your work attire. These were the conditions as told in an excellent story told in Processing magazine, Radar Level Measurement Improves Inventory Control for...
Jim Cahill
13 Jun 2019
Conductivity Measurement for Optimized Clean-in-Place Operations
Common in the Life Sciences and Food & Beverage industries are clean-in-place (CIP) operations to effectively clean the interior surfaces of production process piping, vessels and other inline assets before the next batch is run. This short, 2:10 YouTube video, Effective Conductivity Measurement in Clean-in-Place Applications , highlights the importance of extremely tight measurement and control to avoid costly waste...
Jim Cahill
21 Jan 2019
More Sustainable Food and Beverage Production
More sustainable manufacturing means different things for different industries. For many food & beverage manufacturers, achieving more sustainable production means reducing water usage, waste, and carbon emissions. Emerson’s Melissa Stiegler shared three ways technology has helped play a role in improved sustainability for food & beverage producers. These ways include more efficient clean-in-place (CIP) operations...
Jim Cahill
21 Jan 2019
More Sustainable Food and Beverage Production
More sustainable manufacturing means different things for different industries. For many food & beverage manufacturers, achieving more sustainable production means reducing water usage, waste, and carbon emissions. Emerson’s Melissa Stiegler shared three ways technology has helped play a role in improved sustainability for food & beverage producers. These ways include more efficient clean-in-place (CIP) operations...
Jim Cahill
16 Jan 2019
Improving Quality for Food and Beverage Producers
Consumers have come to expect only the highest quality when it comes to the food and beverages they purchase. Automation has driven the variability of the products way down over the years. But even with these improvements, the average food & beverage producer takes almost a full day to respond to shipments with quality issues. The key to improving quality is to measure quality parameters on-line to address issues...
Jim Cahill
16 Jan 2019
Improving Quality for Food and Beverage Producers
Consumers have come to expect only the highest quality when it comes to the food and beverages they purchase. Automation has driven the variability of the products way down over the years. But even with these improvements, the average food & beverage producer takes almost a full day to respond to shipments with quality issues. The key to improving quality is to measure quality parameters on-line to address issues...
Jim Cahill
10 Jan 2019
Improving Food and Beverage Manufacturing Reliability
Food & beverage manufacturers are driven by consumers not only to maintain high levels of consistency with existing products, but also to develop and deliver new, experiential products. Maintaining consistency and running new production lines require reliable operations to stay competitive and deliver returns to fund new developments. Emerson’s Dennis Belanger , a reliability expert and member of the Operational Certainty...
Jim Cahill
10 Jan 2019
Improving Food and Beverage Manufacturing Reliability
Food & beverage manufacturers are driven by consumers not only to maintain high levels of consistency with existing products, but also to develop and deliver new, experiential products. Maintaining consistency and running new production lines require reliable operations to stay competitive and deliver returns to fund new developments. Emerson’s Dennis Belanger , a reliability expert and member of the Operational Certainty...
Jim Cahill
4 Jan 2019
Food and Beverage Manufacturing Production Optimization
Unlike many other industries in process manufacturing, the food & beverage industry must react much more quickly to changing consumer demands. These rapid changes challenge these manufacturers in their production practices, reliability requirements, product quality needs and sustainability goals. I caught up with Emerson’s Marcus Parsons to discuss the challenges around changing production requirements and how food...
Jim Cahill
4 Jan 2019
Food and Beverage Manufacturing Production Optimization
Unlike many other industries in process manufacturing, the food & beverage industry must react much more quickly to changing consumer demands. These rapid changes challenge these manufacturers in their production practices, reliability requirements, product quality needs and sustainability goals. I caught up with Emerson’s Marcus Parsons to discuss the challenges around changing production requirements and how food...
Jim Cahill
19 Nov 2018
Proper Valve Selection and Control Strategies in Food and Beverage Processes
Temperature control is a critical factor for many food & beverage processes. In a Flow Control magazine article, Selecting Valves for Food and Beverage Applications , Emerson’s Blake Coleman highlights the importance of the right valves and proper tuning to get optimum performance. Blake opens with what poor control may mean: …the best-case result would be lost efficiency, with worst case a completely unusable...
Jim Cahill
19 Nov 2018
Proper Valve Selection and Control Strategies in Food and Beverage Processes
Temperature control is a critical factor for many food & beverage processes. In a Flow Control magazine article, Selecting Valves for Food and Beverage Applications , Emerson’s Blake Coleman highlights the importance of the right valves and proper tuning to get optimum performance. Blake opens with what poor control may mean: …the best-case result would be lost efficiency, with worst case a completely unusable...
Jim Cahill
15 Oct 2018
Better Data, Better Beer
At the recent Emerson Exchange conference in San Antonio, Emerson’s Laura Chemler developed a presentation with a Chief Technology Officer at a brewing company to share how data from flow meters helped produce the highest quality beer. This CTO is obsessed with data—collecting data, observing trends in the data, figuring out what the data can tell besides pressure or temperature in tanks. Laura presented this case...
Jim Cahill
15 Oct 2018
Better Data, Better Beer
At the recent Emerson Exchange conference in San Antonio, Emerson’s Laura Chemler developed a presentation with a Chief Technology Officer at a brewing company to present how data from flow meters helped produce the highest quality beer. This CTO is obsessed with data—collecting data, observing trends in the data, figuring out what the data can tell besides pressure or temperature in tanks. Laura presented this...
Jim Cahill
13 Apr 2018
More Efficient and Consistent Cheese Production
While the snow continues to fall in the U.S. upper Midwest, the cheese producers will be gathering next week at the International Cheese Tech Expo . More than: …3,500 cheese industry leaders, suppliers, marketers and more will gather to share information about the latest in cheese technology, new products, whey opportunities, product safety, marketing and additional issues affecting our industry. As consumers...
Jim Cahill
13 Apr 2018
More Efficient and Consistent Cheese Production
While the snow continues to fall in the U.S. upper Midwest, the cheese producers will be gathering next week at the International Cheese Tech Expo . More than: …3,500 cheese industry leaders, suppliers, marketers and more will gather to share information about the latest in cheese technology, new products, whey opportunities, product safety, marketing and additional issues affecting our industry. As consumers...
Jim Cahill
11 Apr 2018
Reducing Operating and Energy Costs in Craft Beer Production
Recently in a post, Optimizing Wort Sugar Concentration in Craft Beer Brewing , we highlighted the important role of measurement and control in the front end of the beer brewing process which converts malt into wort. Let’s continue down the production path through the fermentation process. Past the lauter tun, which we discussed in the prior post, is the brew kettle—the heart of the beer-making process. What comes...
Jim Cahill
11 Apr 2018
Reducing Operating and Energy Costs in Craft Beer Production
Recently in a post, Optimizing Wort Sugar Concentration in Craft Beer Brewing , we highlighted the important role of measurement and control in the front end of the beer brewing process which converts malt into wort. Let’s continue down the production path through the fermentation process. Past the lauter tun, which we discussed in the prior post, is the brew kettle—the heart of the beer-making process. What comes...
Jim Cahill
29 Mar 2018
Optimizing Wort Sugar Concentration in Craft Beer Brewing
In the U.S, a craft brewer or beer-maker, is defined as small, independent and traditional. A Fortune article highlighted the growth in craft brewing in the United States: As of the end of 2017, there were 6,266 craft breweries operating in the U.S., more than double the total from 2013—and a 16% increase from 2016. Just under 1,000 opened in 2017 alone (with 126 going out of business). This increasing competition...
Jim Cahill
29 Mar 2018
Optimizing Wort Sugar Concentration in Craft Beer Brewing
In the U.S, a craft brewer or beer-maker, is defined as small, independent and traditional. A Fortune article highlighted the growth in craft brewing in the United States: As of the end of 2017, there were 6,266 craft breweries operating in the U.S., more than double the total from 2013—and a 16% increase from 2016. Just under 1,000 opened in 2017 alone (with 126 going out of business). This increasing competition...
Jim Cahill
29 Mar 2018
Optimizing Wort Sugar Concentration in Craft Beer Brewing
In the U.S, a craft brewer or beer-maker, is defined as small, independent and traditional. A Fortune article highlighted the growth in craft brewing in the United States: As of the end of 2017, there were 6,266 craft breweries operating in the U.S., more than double the total from 2013—and a 16% increase from 2016. Just under 1,000 opened in 2017 alone (with 126 going out of business). This increasing competition...
Jim Cahill
27 Sep 2017
Advantages of Ultrasonic Welding for Packaging Applications
Today on the final day of PACK EXPO 2017, Emerson’s Mike Mediana presented on the topic, Migrating from Traditional Package Sealing Technologies to Ultrasonics in Flexible Packaging Applications . Mike’s presentation focused on how consumer preference is driving the increasing demands for flexible packaging in the medical, consumer product, and food and beverage industries. He shared how ultrasonic sealing technology...
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