18 | Plant & Works Engineering www.pwemag.co.uk April/May 2024 Maintenance Matters Plant & Asset Management maintaining specific processing conditions, like heat exchangers or refrigeration systems. CBM for food safety Food safety problems can have many root causes. A significant number of incidents reported to the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), which is established by the European Union to ensure a high level of food safety and protect public health, are caused by contaminations with extraneous material. Such material includes metal pieces coming from broken equipment, grease or detergent remnants. In fact, heavy metals represented the fourth most often notified hazard category in the RASFF from 1980 to 2016. Contamination is arguably the biggest risk to any food and beverage manufacturing firm. As a result, these companies should be looking at new technologies, like IoT sensors, to ensure food safety as well as improving overall equipment effectiveness. Monitoring the condition of bearings and metal detection equipment that impact food safety eliminates the risk of metal parts ending up in the food. As mentioned above, an advanced and very welcome development is the use of sensors, which trigger timely cleaning to avoid contamination risks. Calling upon the support of parts suppliers, food manufacturers can source these sensors in their journey in making CBM, or predictive maintenance for that matter, a reality. These tools allow you to identify where the choke points are in your food and beverage production lines proactively, rather than reactively. As, after all, these efforts are geared towards helping maintenance engineers recognise gross defects before a catastrophe, like contamination, strikes. *Tom Cash is director of Siemens parts supplier, Foxmere For further information please visit: https://foxmere.com/en Name: Company Name: Address: Post Code: Tel: Total Number of Copies @ £ p+p Total £ Drives S & S Hyd H/B Pne H/B Ind Mot Comp H/B H/B Air QUANTITY QUANTITY Hydraulics & Pneumatics There are now 6 of these handy reference books from the publishers of the Drives & Controls and Hydraulics & Pneumatics magazines. Published in an easily readable style and designed to help answer basic questions and everyday problems without the need to refer to weighty textbooks. We believe you’ll find them invaluable items to have within arms reach. From the publishers of QUANTITY QUANTITY QUANTITY 2-5 copies £4.30, 6-20 copies £4.10, 20+ copies £3.75. QUANTITY PRACTICAL ENGINEER’S HANDBOOKS HYDRAULICS INDUSTRIAL MOTORS SERVOS AND STEPPERS PNEUMATICS COMPRESSED AIR INDUSTRIAL ELECTRIC DRIVES PLEASE ALLOW UPTO 28 DAYS FOR DELIVERY $&! -!.5&!#452).' -%$)! ,4$ 4HE (IGH 3TREET 4ONBRIDGE +ENT 4. "% Postage and Packaging: 1-3 copies: £2.99 4-6 copies: £4.99 7 or more copies: £6.99 If you would like to obtain additional copies of the handbooks, please email info@dfamedia.co.uk or call us on 01732 370340. Alternatively you can return the completed form below to: Engineers Handbook, DFA MANUFACTURING MEDIA LTD, 192 The High Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1BE #HEQUES SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE TO $&! -ANUFACTURING -EDIA ,TD AND CROSSED ! # 0AYEE #OPIES OF THE HANDBOOKS ARE AVAILABLE AT a PER COPY $ISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR MULTIPLE COPIES
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