Presentations

• The Challenges of Implementing a Global Safety Program [PDF]
• Rockwell Automation in the Food & Beverage Industries [PDF]
• Enabling Water Optimization in the Beverage Industry with Monitoring, Automation and Control [PDF]
• Realizing the Impact of Safety on Productivity [PDF]
• The Business Value of Industrial Intelligence for the Food and Beverage Industries [PDF]

Automation Fair 2011

Food & Beverage Industry Forum

Wednesday, November 16 • 1:30PM to 3:30PM • Room W194

Global markets, consumer diversity and environmental sustainability are some of the key forces driving the continual evolution of the food and beverage industry. Consolidation, diverse and changing consumer preferences, increasing government regulations and energy and raw material costs, combined with the need for corporate and social responsibility, are dramatically impacting manufacturing and business strategies. In this fiercely competitive marketplace, companies must offer an ever-widening breadth of products to meet consumer demand. At the same time, they must consistently and cost-effectively achieve optimum levels of quality in their products.

You Will Learn

• Improving flexibility in manufacturing operations
• Utilizing information to drive cost reductions
• Increasing the performance of your assets in production and packaging
• Identifying and managing opportunities for reducing energy costs
• Addressing sustainability issues at your facility
• Implementing systems that address governmental regulations

Who Should Attend?

The Food and Beverage Forum is designed for management and operations personnel. If you have responsibility for, or contribute directly to, the financial, production, energy or overall efficiency of your plant, and want to hear how you can optimize your plant's operations, this forum is for you.

• Plant managers
• Operational and production managers
• Manufacturing directors
• Engineering managers
• QA, Engineering, Maintenance and Operations
• IT managers

Agenda

• Realizing the Impact of Safety on Productivity

  Scott Kluegel | Corporate Engineering Manager, Malt-O-Meal

  Malt-O-Meal's previous relay-based safety solution made it difficult to comply with new machine safety regulations. Learn how standardizing on an integrated safety solution helped improve worker safety, simplify installation and troubleshooting, and reduced downtime. Also hear how Malt-O-Meal leveraged its partnership with Rockwell Automation to conduct a machine-based risk assessment as step one of the design process.

• Enabling Water Optimization in the Beverage Industry with Automation and Control

  Tom Lindley | Beverage Industry Development Manager, Nalco Corporation

  Many beverage industry manufacturers strive to reduce their facility's Water Usage Ration (WUR). As they make progress toward their WUR goals, it is becoming more and more difficult to find and take advantage of water reduction opportunities. This often requires reduce, recycle and reuse of more challenging water streams. Learn how to maintain a high level of process capability by leveraging automation and control technology to manage the water streams that result from these tactics.

• The Challenges of Implementing a Global Safety Program

  Craig Torrance | Global Senior Manager; Health, Safety and Well Being, PepsiCo

  International safety standards continue to evolve and reshape how safety professionals at global and multinational companies work to achieve compliance. Learn how PepsiCo harmonized its corporate safety system across all divisions and plants worldwide regardless of location.

• The Business Value of Industrial Intelligence for Food and Beverage Manufacturers

  Chet Namboodri | Global Director; Manufacturing Industry Solutions and Marketing, Cisco

  Your CEO cares about profitable growth, market transitions, leading innovation, risk management, and global governance and controllership. Food and Beverage plants, factories and machines consist of billions of sensors, actuators, controllers, drives and other industrial devices that automate and control the manufacture of products, are now EtherNet/IP-enabled, increasingly more intelligent and communicating via standard networks. Through example Food and Beverage case studies, learn how network convergence across the distributed management of global supply chains has enabled Industrial Intelligence – the ability to use the business context-rich intelligence from those controllers and other industrial devices to better address those CEO business values in very tangible ways:

  • Increase customer and market responsiveness while mitigating supply chain and operational risks
  • Optimize industrial asset utilization and lifecycle
  • Enhance industrial safety, cyber and physical security
  • Boost product and service quality, along with compliance to increasingly fragmented global requirements