Plant Design/Management

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Spare Parts Know-How

Does intent align with outcome?

Phillip Slater

August 12, 2019

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Over the 30-plus years of my career, I have learned to ask one question whenever someone suggests a new idea or action to implement: For what purpose?

Cordray's Corner

The importance of organizational work-life balance

Dr. Joe Cordray

August 9, 2019

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It is very important that owners and managers of small meat processing plants not only have personal work-life balance but that they also cultivate organizational work-life balance for their employees.

Farm to Plate

Conducting a hazard analysis for animal wellness

Elaine Vanier

August 8, 2019

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This article describes the process of utilizing a hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) plan to identify, balance and mitigate key threats to animal wellness.

How Old Wisconsin Sausage attracts and retains employees

July 29, 2019

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Andy Hanacek talks to Angela Casper at Old Wisconsin Sausage (a division of Carl Buddig & Company) about how the plant attracts, retains and treats its employees in the Sheboygan, Wis., region.

Processing Tech

Room for improvement in meat & poultry worker safety

A greater focus on worker safety by meat and poultry processors has led to declines in injuries and accidents, but more can be done.

Richard Mitchell

June 11, 2019

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Meat and poultry plants are becoming increasingly safer environments for workers in all positions.

Cordray's Corner

Achieving Personal Work-Life Balance

Dr. Joe Cordray

June 5, 2019

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Owners and managers of small meat plants need to be concerned with two types of work-life balance; personal work-life balance and organizational work-life balance. This article addresses personal work-life balance as it relates to the small meat plant owner or manager.

Spare Parts Know-How

To improve spare parts management, the walls between departments must be demolished

Get above the silos

Phillip Slater

May 9, 2019

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Your maintenance and reliability team will know better than anyone the impact a spare-parts shortage has on the business. No spare often equals no production, so there is sometimes an attitude of "the more the merrier."

Guest Column | Ag Advocacy

Don't take a vacation from plant security this summer

Casey Kinler

May 8, 2019

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Summer vacations are on everyone's minds, but one vacation you don't want to take is a vacation from plant security. Animal rights activists don’t take a break from activism, so plants shouldn't take a break from security.

Cordray's Corner

A well-planned breakroom improves company culture

Dr. Joe Cordray

April 19, 2019

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There are several ways that you can transform your company's culture from an abstract concept into a daily positive experience by strategically designing and stocking your breakroom.

What recent poultry plant construction means for industry

April 16, 2019

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In this exclusive video Q&A from IPPE in Atlanta, Will Sawyer, CoBank, discusses the blitz in poultry processing construction and expansion and what it means for the rest of the industry.

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Does intent align with outcome?

The importance of organizational work-life balance

Conducting a hazard analysis for animal wellness

How Old Wisconsin Sausage attracts and retains employees

Room for improvement in meat & poultry worker safety

Achieving Personal Work-Life Balance

To improve spare parts management, the walls between departments must be demolished

Don't take a vacation from plant security this summer

A well-planned breakroom improves company culture

What recent poultry plant construction means for industry

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