Practical resources built for food manufacturing engineering
The AFME Resource Library brings together practical templates, tools and working documents designed to support engineers across food and drink manufacturing. Here you will find resources covering maintenance and reliability, engineering audits, asset management, CAPEX and projects, health and safety, food safety and compliance, utilities and energy, automation and controls, engineering management, and people development.
Resources are intended to be practical — documents that can be downloaded, adapted and used in real engineering environments.
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Practical engineering templates, audits, PM tools, maintenance regimes and management documents for food manufacturing.
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AFME-MR-01 PPM Task Card Template
A template for writing planned maintenance tasks that are specific, measurable and worth doing, with a worked food-factory example and blank task cards. Many food sites run PPM schedules copied from OEM manuals years ago, with tasks such as check conveyor that give no limit, no method and no record of condition. A good task card states exactly what to check, what is acceptable, what to do if it is not, and how the job is done safely and hygienically.
AFME-MR-02 Common Root Cause Analysis Techniques
A practical, plain-English guide to finding the real cause of breakdowns, defects, foreign-body incidents and near misses in food manufacturing, so they are fixed once instead of again and again. It explains six of the most widely used root cause analysis techniques, when to use each one and how to carry it out step by step, and shows how to turn causes into strong, lasting actions that stand up to BRCGS, retailer and HSE scrutiny.
