On February 28, during the Board of Director's meeting, the gavel was passed to Paul Rainey.  Please join ASB staff in welcoming Paul as the Society's 2018-19 Chairman. Paul and his Program Chair, Trent Wanamaker, have already started planning BakingTech 2019!

Please let us know your experience at BakingTech 2018!  For those who attended the annual ASB conference in Chicago, you were sent the following survey: BakingTech 2018 Post-Meeting Survey

Please let us know what went right and what went wrong. This information will be used by the BakingTech 2019 Planning Committee and the MarketPlace Committee to address any issues prior to next year's conference. The deadline for completing the survey is Friday, March 16th.

When: March 28-29, 2018
Where: Hilton Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, CA
Cost: Registration Deadline March 13th

• $1,295 for Professional & Young Professional members
• $995 for new ASB members (members as of 01/01/18)
• $995 for members who attended BakingTech 2018
• $995 each when registering 4 or more participants from the same company
• $1,795 for non-member

Audience: Plant Managers, Plant Engineers, Maintenance Managers, Operations Managers, Maintenance supervisors and Planner/Schedulers.

Overview: The simplest maintenance strategy is to execute run to failure maintenance (also known as "run to fail"). In this strategy, assets are deliberately allowed to operate until they break down, at which point reactive maintenance is preformed.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand what leads to reactive maintenance and tactical strategies for getting out of run to fail.
• Each attendee should expect to leave the workshop with a strategy plan which they build from the ideas shared and learned during the workshop.

The Sanitary Design Workshop is a unique educational opportunity presented by experts who are “in the trenches”- employed in processing facilities.

Engineers, sanitarians & plant managers will come away with practical and proven approaches to cleaning, sanitary design, equipment layout, and personnel requirements that utilize verifiable, economically sound, and HACCP supported processes. The workshop includes equipment design demonstrations using photos and prototypes, and the introduction of a process for continuous improvement. 

Workshop Content 

• Equipment design demonstrations using prototypes and photos
• Case studies reviewing applications in the field
• Hands-on demonstrations
• Discussion of what the FSMA means for sanitary design
• The GMA Principles of Design checklist
• A Toolkit for equipment and plant design