What is food grade? Food grade means that the material is either safe for human consumption or it is okay to come into direct contact with food products. What does NSF 51 Food Equipment Materials certification mean? NSF 51 Food Equipment Materials certifications establishes minimum health and sanitation requirements for materials used in the making of commercial food equipment. Food, beverage and drinking water contact materials must not contaminate food nor make food equipment difficult to clean and sanitize. NSF tests and certifies a variety of plastic materials and resins for food contact end use. Plastics resins suitable for evaluation by the NSF for food contact certification include Coatings Silicone Nylon (PA) Acetal (POM) Polyethylene (PE) Polypropylene (PP) Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) What does food safe mean? Food safe means that a food-grade material is also suitable for its intended use and will not create a foo...

  The cloud computing industry is one of the fastest growing today. In fact, according to Gartner’s latest worldwide public cloud services revenue forecast, revenue for global public cloud services is forecasted to reach $411.4 billion by 2020. The great news is that with the growth of the cloud computing industry comes the growth and diversification of job opportunities in the space. But, what exactly are these cloud developer roles? And what type of knowledge is essential for succeeding in them? There are a variety of cloud platforms out there, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to name a few. As a cloud professional, you are expected to be knowledgeable on them all and understand how to implement the benefits of such platforms to your organization’s cloud computing strategy. A cloud software developer designs and develops secure cloud applications, services, and products. This can include everything from back-end, front-end, web application, full-sta...

PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) was developed by AIAG   and it is an important part of the comprehensive Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) approach. There are five phases to APQP; PPAP is triggered in Phase 4, Product & Process Validation. The basis for the make-up of a process control plan is included in the APQP manual. [3]  The APQP process is defined in the AIAG's APQP manual, which is part of a series of interrelated documents that the AIAG controls and publishes. These manuals include: The failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) manual The statistical process control (SPC) manual The measurement systems analysis (MSA) manual The production part approval process (PPAP) manual How APQP Works In APQP, quality isn't an end in itself. The goal is to ensure that your company delivers a top product that will make your customers happy. If you apply APQP to the new product line y...