The Plant Management Experience
A complimentary webinar series featuring guest speakers from leading brands in food, beverage, and CPG industries
As part of the plant management team, how do you translate edicts from the boardroom – Improve operating margins, maintain compliance, protect and bolster the brand– into action at the plant level? Especially in light of new safety regulations and changing economic and competitive conditions.
The Plant Management Experience webinar series shares strategies and tactics of executives from some of the world’s top companies providing real world experience and insights you can really use!
Visualizing Hidden Information
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Eric Allen
JM Smucker Company
There are many challenges associated with integrating original equipment manufacturer (OEM) equipment into the production line and plant operations. While data visualization is never easy, displaying meaningful data to the line operator from OEM equipment often presents unique challenges. Learn options for dealing with OEM machines and finding the wealth of hidden information waiting to be exposed.
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Successfully Managing Food Safety and Temperature Integrity in Food Distribution and Warehouse Facilities
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Mark Grimes
Gordon Food Services (GFS) strikes the fine balance of sustaining food safety through temperature control while simultaneously reducing energy and logistics costs. Featured speaker Mark Grimes of GFS discusses innovative approaches, challenges, and opportunities when dealing with maintaining temperature integrity of products in food distribution and manufacturing facilities. Mark will share how he applies proven techniques and tools from the automation and IT worlds to achieve compelling business results for GFS.
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A Practitioner Approach To Packaging Line Productivity
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Mathieu Loranger, Eng.
The differing operational needs of the packaging line usually call for unique automation and configuration strategies. Variables such as product mix, production volume, container size, physical layout and line control integration – each of these variations must be considered and factored into a successful automation and visualization strategy. Learn from an experienced practitioner about key success factors and pitfalls.
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Driving Economic Profit in Food Plant Manufacturing
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Mike Ruffner,
Food Distribution Company
With 20 years of experience in lean manufacturing, operational finance, auditing for continual improvement, and compliance; Mike will discuss the relationship of revenues and opportunity costs, EP, capital investing, and budgeting process.
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Continuous Improvement: Packaging
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Jim Whalen,
Rich Products
Business strategy planning and execution requires a comprehensive understanding of the process needed to achieve sustainable results. This session covers change management actions and the enabling technology that helps one company achieve their business goals.
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Learn Secrets of Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Lars Johansen,
Chr.Hansen
Manufacturing key performance indicators measure business efficiencies and provide contextual information to empower operators and supervisors to make decisions aligned with enterprise goals. This webinar will discuss the challenges companies face when combining top-down KPIs with bottom-up data points, and how to turn them into actionable information.
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Asset Reliability —
Get Behind The Scenes
At Frito Lay
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Ed Michel,
Frito-Lay
The food and beverage industry increasingly relies on production assets to push productivity levels to new standards. A key contributor to achieving productivity targets is asset reliability. This session will provide insight into what one world-class organization is doing to achieve their productivity goals.
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Getting Real About Real-Time Cost Management
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Rudy Westervelt (retired), Kroger
The good news is that companies are hiring, as consumer confidence climbs. The bad news is that commodity and energy costs are also on the rise. This session will cover how daily management of operational activities and the use of real-time technology can make a real and positive difference in sustaining growth.
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Supply Chain Strategy: Supercharging Operational Agility
OnDemand
Featured Speaker:
Ken Campbell (formerly),
Heinz & Molson/Coors
Food, beverage and consumer packaged goods companies must link marketing, order execution and fulfillment processes to achieve better demand responsiveness. This webinar will explain the challenges management faces in striking an optimal balance between supply, make, and product delivery requirements.
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