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Practical engineering knowledge, guidance and resources for people working in UK food manufacturing.
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Food-Grade Lubrication: Getting H1, H2 and the Lube Route Right
How to choose, store, apply and control lubricants in a UK food factory so they protect both the machine and the product, and pass BRCGS scrutiny.
Planned Maintenance: The Unsung Food-Safety Control
Why planned maintenance is a food-safety control as well as a reliability tool: the legal duty, the cost of downtime, foreign bodies, washdown water ingress and sustainability, plus five practical steps to get it right.
The 24-Hour Breakdown Review: Turning Failures Into Action
A repeatable breakdown-review structure that separates immediate recovery from root-cause learning and ensures corrective actions are actually closed.
PPM Optimisation: Remove Work That Does Not Prevent Failure
How to challenge inherited preventative-maintenance tasks and redirect engineering hours toward work that genuinely protects reliability.
Building a Critical Spares Strategy That Actually Reduces Downtime
A practical method for deciding which spares must be held, which can be sourced quickly and which should never be allowed to become a single point of failure.
