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Seven tips for FSMA compliance in plant automation

Here's how automation can improve compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)...

Automation can improve compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Here are some tips from food company managers that may help you improve your own technology choices:
 
1. Lock it down. Design and install food safety systems that are locked down to prevent human bypass and that navigate through garbage-in, garbage-out temptations while remaining extremely user friendly.
 
2. Give operators the right tools. Food safety often hinges on the proficiency of operators and other plant-floor personnel to work efficiently with equipment. Well-written procedural documentation is an invaluable teaching aid in compliance as well as productivity. Likewise, all automation should be user friendly, from controls to software and recordkeeping systems.
 
3. Involve QA/QC. Involve quality personnel (and others) in engineering reviews and meetings. They may catch something engineers, operations, and maintenance personnel on a project team might miss.
 
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