Processing's Weekly Mixer: How AI helped Cargill avoid 41 food safety incidents
Welcome to the latest installment of Processing's Weekly Mixer, which highlights recent content from EndeavorB2B brands relevant to process manufacturers.
This week's entry features content from Food Processing, Pharma Manufacturing, Automation World, Chemical Processing and Plant Services, as well as this week's content from Processing.
How AI helped Cargill avoid 41 food safety incidents
From Food Processing: The company’s top food safety officer shared a panel discussion at the recent Food Safety Summit.
Dave Fusaro writes:
Artificial intelligence-assisted technologies helped Cargill avoid 41 food safety incidents in the past year a half, Cargill’s top food safety officer told an audience at this week’s Food Safety Summit.
A November 2020 recall of locust bean gum – “the most expensive recall of my 25-year career” – helped push Cargill into developing its own Cargill Hazard Alert System, said Sean Leighton, global vice president of food safety, quality, and regulatory at the giant meat and ingredients company.
He was speaking on a panel discussion, “Leveraging AI for food safety: From strategy to impact,” that opened the Food Safety Summit on May 12. Other speakers were from McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, FDA, North Carolina State University and University of Illinois.
“How do you react to something that hasn’t happened yet?” Leighton said was the central question in putting AI to work to prevent food safety incidents.
Read the entire article HERE
Can CDMO-to-CDMO collaboration simplify drug development?
From Pharma Manufacturing: As drug development grows increasingly complex, CDMOs are exploring new ways to streamline the path from early-stage formulation through commercial manufacturing. Rather than operating in isolated segments of the development lifecycle, some outsourcing partners are beginning to form more integrated collaborations designed to reduce handoffs, improve coordination, and simplify the client experience across multiple stages of manufacturing.
In this episode of Off Script, Pharma Manufacturing spoke with David Leroux-Petersen, CEO of Corealis Pharma, and Jean-Baptiste (JB) Agnus, CCO of the CDMO division at Bora Pharmaceuticals, about the emerging role of CDMO-to-CDMO collaboration through the lens of a new partnership between their companies. The conversation explores how integrated outsourcing models can help reduce development risk and accelerate timelines, what operational alignment looks like across organizations with complementary capabilities, and why client-centricity, governance, and transparent communication are essential in complex manufacturing partnerships.
Listen to the episode below.
From paper chaos to control: Solving the hidden risks on the factory floor
It's 2 am. A customer has flagged a potential contamination issue. Your quality manager is on the phone trying to reconstruct what happened on Tuesday's shift, using handwritten logs.
This isn't a worst-case scenario. For manufacturers still running paper-based processes, it's a foreseeable one.
Walk into many manufacturing facilities today, and you'll still see clipboards, log sheets, and spreadsheets holding together critical production and quality processes. Operators record data by hand. Supervisors chase paperwork at the end of the shift.
Paper-based processes are familiar, low-tech, and 'good enough’.
Until they're not.
Behind the simplicity of paper sits a growing layer of operational risk that many manufacturers underestimate, until it's exposed by an audit, a quality issue, or a product recall.
Read the entire article HERE.
Perceptual invariants: The hidden key to operator expertise
Maintenance myth busting: How plants separate reliability facts from fiction on the factory floor
My podcast co-host Joe Kuhn has told me many times, when he walks into almost any plant and asks about reliability, he hears all the right answers. Kuhn has spent many years as a plant manager and now works as a consultant, and he’s heard it all.
We have a PM program. We have a system for tracking work. There are KPIs, dashboards, and reports that suggest everything is under control. But when he steps onto the shop floor, the story often changes. Many facilities believe they’re running effective maintenance and reliability programs, yet they’re not getting results.
Joe and I often talk about the gap between what dashboards report and what technicians actually experience on the shop floor. This is where myths take hold, so the Ask a Plant Manager podcast is here with a reliability reality check. Listen to the podcast audio here.
What happens when we put reliability and maintenance assumptions to the test?
The following five scenarios break down some of the most common beliefs and misnomers in maintenance and reliability, separating myth from reality—and exposing where even well-intentioned programs can go off track.
Read the entire article HERE.
