custom deboning

9 Reasons a Custom Deboning System is Better

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When it comes to equipping your deboning operation with the necessary sanitary equipment, you want the best bang for your buck. Go too cheap, and the equipment is likely to break down or wear out on you quickly. Spend too much, and the higher ups are going to question your budgetary decisions. You need to find the right balance of longevity, durability, and assimilation into your operation, as well as cost, wait time, and delivery.

Finding the right equipment to fit that bill is near impossible. Do a quick Google search for deboning equipment, and you’ll find pages upon pages of results – and there’s no guarantee that you’ll find what you need in the first few pages. Who has time for that?!

There should be a better way to find the deboning equipment you need.

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Ergonomic Risks in Poultry Deboning

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A standard poultry deboning operation includes six main tasks – each with it’s own ergonomic and safety risks. While ergonomic risks exist in any processing operation, due to the constant and repetitive motions involved in manning processing work stations, poultry deboning has a number of safety risks as well – from the use of knives, trimmers, and pullers.

Knowing the typical ergonomic risks associated with a poultry deboning line can better prepare you to invest in equipment and proper training to lower those risks and keep your employees safe. Here are just some of the ergonomic risks listed out by deboning task:

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3 Basic Principles of a Deboning Room

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When it comes to setting up your deboning room operation, there are three basic layouts that are most often used. Each layout offers its own advantages, based on the goals you are trying to achieve with your processing line, and can be combined to create a multi-functioning deboning room.

Here are the three basic room layouts, along with the advantages and benefits of each layout:

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Monmouth College Visits Fusion Tech

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On Tuesday, February 10, Fusion Tech played host to the Midwest Entrepreneurs class at Monmouth College. Dan Bentz, General Manager at Fusion Tech, gave the class of 20 or so students a tour of our facilities, showing them our multiple shops, office areas, and design and drafting department.

The students in Professor Terrance Gabel’s class learned about Fusion Tech’s history, services, competitive advantages, and the lessons learned along the way of starting and operating a growing manufacturing company. Dan highlighted two main lessons for the students:

  • Never burn bridges as an entrepreneur
  • Grow your business by serving your current clients well and developing new clients

It was a great experience for the Monmouth College students to see our facilities and shop in action, and a great opportunity for Fusion Tech to continue investing in the next generation of manufacturing.

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1 Affordable Way You Can Decrease Smokehouse Cook Time

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Time is money. That statement is especially true when it comes to the amount of time your product spends cooking in your smokehouse.

The longer your smokehouse cook time, the higher your energy and operating expenses will be. Not to mention, when your processing operation revolves around product cooking in your smokehouse, everything else gets affected – cooling, further processing, packaging, and shipping. Saving even 45 minutes of cook time would yield immense benefits to your whole operation.

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9 Obvious Signs You Need to Rebuild Your Smokehouse

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A smokehouse or dehydrator is the central component of any cooking operation. Everything else – from further processing to packaging – revolves around the time your product spends in the smokehouse. There isn’t much you can do until your product is fully cooked.

Cooking your product to get the right flavor, consistency, and temperature takes time – and if your smokehouse isn’t functioning at high efficiency, it could be taking more time than necessary. The longer it takes, the more money it’s costing you. As the old adage states, time is money.

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9 Benefits of RockWool Insulation in Smokehouses

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One of the biggest components of our smokehouse rebuild service is updating the insulation in your oven. Insulation has a big effect on the efficiency of your smokehouse. High quality insulation will help keep your smokehouse at the proper temperature for even cooking, giving you a quality finished product, while a low quality and cheaper insulation, or improperly installed insulation, will allow heat to dissipate, costing you energy and money.

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Save Money with a Smokehouse Rebuild

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If your food processing operation includes a smokehouse, you likely know the frustration – and money dump – that comes when your smokehouse is functioning less than optimal. It costs you time, money, and productivity. Not to mention the waste of unevenly cooked product. And, up until now, the only option available to fix the situation was to purchase a whole new smokehouse.

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conveyor safety

12 Simple Ways to Improve Conveyor Safety

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Conveyor safety is essential in a food processing facility.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 39,100 people operated conveyor belts in 2012. These people make sure product loads and unloads correctly, grab product off of a moving conveyor, and align product correctly on the belt.

It’s rare to find a medium-to-large sized food processing facility that does not have people working near conveyors. They are an essential part of any efficient processing plant.

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conveyor maintenance

6 Actions You Need to Take to Ensure Longer Conveyor Life

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Conveyor systems are the backbone of any processing operation – moving product along the processing line from one workstation to the next.

When working correctly, your conveyor system keeps your line moving efficiently. But when a conveyor slows down, or breaks down completely, the whole line comes to a screeching halt – and costs you time, resources, and ultimately, money.

The goal in any food processing facility is to keep your conveyors running efficiently for as long as possible.

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