The monitor is blank, except for the icons that tell me: “Start designing!” Reruns of this episode have been experienced by engineers, designers and operations personnel.
As a child, I would always ask for an Erector Set for Christmas. Those familiar with an Erector Set know that, with enough imagination, one could build anything.
Conveyors are the arteries and veins of a plant which serpentine through rooms, transporting products between processing and packaging lines and into waiting trucks. The implementation of conveyors has dramatically improved the means in which product is transported. Totes, tubs, carts and lugers have been replaced by these simple yet critical pieces of equipment.
Protein plant of the future? You may be thinking, “I can’t worry about a future plant when I am focusing on my current plant’s operations.” But without forward thinking NOW, your protein plant of the future may be a boarded-up building surrounded by a weed-infested parking lot, or an over-built mega-structure burdened with fixed overhead costs and no workforce.