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Cinnamon and sugar aren’t so sweet when they cause combustible dust fires and explosions in food manufacturing plants. This white paper addresses the effective, efficient ways to comply with OSHA’s combustible dust NEP for food environments. Readers will learn: OSHA approved ways to collect combustible dust What to look for in an Explosion-Proof (EXP) vacuum Explosion-proof vs. Intrinsically Safe Filtration and Spill Response options Register for this white paper as a step toward a safer food manufacturing environment. Request Free!

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When the Dust Settles: Combating Combustible Dust in Food Manufacturing

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Combustible dust fires happen in manufacturing plants across the U.S. everyday. Although they don’t receive as much media hype as explosions, these fires can cause hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and injury. This white paper helps manufacturers learn more about combustible dust hazards and ways to handle combustible dust in your manufacturing plant in order to comply with OSHA’s NEP. This white paper addresses: The grass roots effort to combat combustible dust How combustible dust fires occur Steps to reduce and eliminate hazards in your plant environment Register for this white paper today to take a step toward a safer plant environment. Request Free!

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Fired Up: Combustible Dust Raises Explosive Issues

In this economy, insurance organizations are looking for ways to drive more connected experiences with customers by focusing on increasing sales productivity. The white paper, based on key findings from a 2008 CustomerThink survey of sales professionals and business managers, outlines the key factors that thought leaders say contribute the most to sales productivity. It addresses the critical role technology plays in the process, and outlines best practices for sales and IT leaders to use to drive value, realize efficiencies, and ultimately improve their bottom line. Request Free!

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Improving Sales Productivity: An Opportunity for Sales and IT Leadership

Building on its long tradition within the multivalue and multi-dimensional database market, Database Trends and Applications now addresses the full range of enterprise information issues, including operational, transactional and analytical systems. Request Free!

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Database Trends and Applications

Are you looking for specific information about virtualization and how it can impact your business? Perhaps few of your peers in this midmarket class of enterprises have reached a high level of experience in virtualizing, and you need a dollars-and-cents rationale before considering beginning the virtualization process. Given hard experience adopting new technologies, you also need assurance that you can engage in virtualization without severely interrupting business. To get some detailed and informative insights, read this IDC paper, which addresses these concerns and presents how virtualization improves business. Request Free!

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Virtualization and the Midsize Organization: How Much Does It Help?

This Aberdeen paper offers practical insight for Process Manufacturers as well as addresses: How best-in-class process manufacturers bring the asset online quickly during the commissioning process, and how they maximize asset effectiveness, availability, and reliability during the operation process. How effectively managing an asset’s lifecycle can have a big impact on the success of process manufacturers—specifically in reducing maintenance costs and unscheduled asset downtime, and achieving higher overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). In a case study, how Brewster Cheese, the largest manufacturer of Swiss cheese in the United States selected a solution to standardize processes across all their plants. Three strategic areas that companies in process industries are missing out. Written by: Aberdeen Group; Sponsored by: Infor Request Free!

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Best Practices in Asset Management for Process Manufacturers