Increase Asset Performance and Food Safety with Modern Technologies

The maintenance function at food & beverage producing companies has evolved from primarily doing repairs to preventive maintenance, resulting in increased uptime. New technologies, like internet of things (IoT) sensors, make it possible to further improve overall equipment effectiveness and food safety. Monitoring the condition of assets in ways that historically required human touch-points provide operators, technicians, and engineers with the situational awareness that they need to not only identify issues in real-time, but proactively identify potential equipment impact.

Join this panel discussion to:

• Learn how the maintenance function can be part of a holistic approach of food safety and a safe workspace by implementing automation to maintenance processes
• Understand how critical Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) such as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) can become more real-time and by implementing condition-based maintenance
• Hear how food & beverage producing companies are utilizing condition-based approaches to gain a competitive advantage
• Q&A with industry experts and Lopez Foods, an Infor customer

Speakers

Kevin Price, Technical Product Evangelist, Infor

Kevin has been in the enterprise asset management software industry most of his professional career in product management and product strategy capacities. For more than 23 years, Kevin has been globally responsible for product management, product marketing and strategy functions for Infor EAM, Infor MP2, iProcure, Spear Technologies, and Energy Performance Management product families and has launched over 80% of it from an idea on a white board to the world-leading and award-winning solution set that it is today.

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Mikael Bengtsson, Industry Principal Director – Food and Beverage, Infor

Mikael Bengtsson is the Infor Industry & Solution Strategy Director for Food & Beverage. His focus is to provide thought leadership in how technology can address current challenges within Food & Beverage and provide business benefits to Infor customers. Mikael has more than 22 years of experience from business and technology consulting and with a special focus on the Food & Beverage industry.

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Aaron Beasecker, CIO, Lopez Foods

Aaron Beasecker is the CIO at Lopez-Dorada Foods. In his nearly 30 years of IT experience in the manufacturing industry, he has implemented and maintained numerous software solutions including various ERP applications, multiple enterprise asset management systems, product lifecycle management and several custom developed applications. In addition, Aaron has led manufacturing performance enhancement projects across multiple organizations.

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