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For forward-thinking manufacturing, engineering and operations professionals, the OpX Leadership Network is a catalyst for transformative solutions and best practices to improve operational excellence in today's "do more with less, faster" environment.

The OpX Leadership Network ensures CPG manufacturers and OEMs/suppliers are well-connected and well-prepared to solve common operational challenges, make smarter decisions and achieve operational excellence.

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Remote Equipment Access

The Remote Equipment Access: Options Analysis provides a common understanding of the relative pros and cons of various common industry methodologies for remotely accessing equipment installed in manufacturing facilities. The goal is to enable safe and secure remote equipment diagnostics and assistance. This work product is not intended as a how to guide; it is designed as a discussion tool to consider the approaches available to enable remote access to equipment.

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Worker Safety Readiness for the CPG Industry

The primary focus of the document is to provide worker safety readiness assessment tools in two key areas: commitment to a culture of worker safety and commitment to a worker safety plan. The free resource includes subject matter expertise from members of the OpX Leadership Network’s Worker Safety Solutions Group, as well as guidelines to evaluate electrical safety, ammonia safety and machine safeguarding.

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RFP Template for CPG Industry

As a companion document to the RFP Guidelines, this RFP Template is a working document in an Excel format that allows users to record key information to convey to internal team members as well as external bidders on capital equipment project requirements.

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RFP Guidelines For CPG Industry

These RFP Guidelines provide a common, systematic thought process that enables greater clarity and understanding of capital project requirements that results in better outcomes for all stakeholders involved in the request for proposal process.

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Clean-in-Place Guidelines for Consumer Products Manufacturers

Clean-in-Place (CIP) is widely used in the production of products such as food, dairy, beverages, cosmetics, personal care, pharmaceutical, nutraceuticals, pet food and bio-tech to remove soil from product contact surfaces without disassembly by circulating, spraying or flowing chemical solutions onto and over the surfaces in the processing configuration. The OpX Leadership Network has developed Clean-in-Place Guidelines for Consumer Products Manufacturers, outlining generic definitions, equipment considerations, best practices and protocols for CIP that can be leveraged across multiple process lines to drive improved operations, product quality, consumer safety and sustainability results.

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Clean-in-Place Checklist

Currently, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) does not have a mandatory validation requirement for Clean-in-Place (CIP) sanitation, but many consumer packaged goods companies are taking a proactive approach to food safety measures. To assist with this process, the OpX Leadership Network has developed the Clean-in-Place Checklist, a companion document to the Clean-in-Place Guidelines for Consumer Products, to assist companies looking to organize, develop and validate a documented CIP plan for processing equipment. The checklist document outlines major activities that should take place and helps identify any deficiencies.

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