Food & Drink

  • Puratos increases uptime

    Puratos, headquartered in Groot-Bijgaarden (Belgium), is a global producer of bakery, patisserie and chocolate ingredients. Last year the maintenance department of Puratos started an improvement process together with a team of Mainnovation, the process resulted in a improvement of asset reliability and inter-departmental transparency.

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  • ConAgra Foods boosts maintenance performance with VDM

    ConAgra Foods is a multi brand food producer with over 40 manufacturing sites in the USA, a turnover of 12 billion dollars per year and the ambition to become a global top 10 market player.

    In 2009 ConAgra started a structured and company wide improvement program called the ConAgra Performance System (CPS) to improve business performance and shareholder value by standardizing...

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  • VDM improvement prject at Leaf

    Leaf België Production NV is a manufacturing site and part of Leaf International, a leading sugar confectionary company in Europe. Leaf is active in Lean Manufacturing and required that they maintenance process was linked to this.

    Following a VDM audit Mainnovation advised to implement a new organization model, including the extra function of 'Reliability Engineer'. This...

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  • IFF

    IFF is a global leader in the production and sales of aromas and flavors. In 2002, Mainnovation was asked to launch a cost reduction program within the technical service of the European Production facilities in Tilburg, Netherlands. However the VDM Audit showed clearly that there was more economic value to be created by investing in maintenance instead.

    Together with the...

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