Hygienic Equipment Design for Food-Processing Machinery

Welcome to the Hygienic Designs exhibit at Fox & Associates.

To explore this 3D exhibit, hold the left mouse button and move your mouse to look around. Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. If you are using a laptop touchpad, click and drag to look around, then use your touchpad scroll gesture to zoom.

Fox & Associates provides hygienic equipment design for food-processing machinery, including mixers, blenders, grinders, conveyors, metal detection units, weigh systems for batching, and the support equipment that goes with them. That support equipment can include elevated access platforms, cleaning platforms, guards, brackets, frames, and access structures. These support systems should follow the same hygienic design thinking as the equipment itself. If you can’t reach it, you can’t clean it.

This interactive 3D exhibit was created using SolidWorks, the same modeling software used to design production-ready equipment, fabrication drawings, layouts, BOM packages, and custom mechanical design details for client projects.

Hygienic design is not just about making equipment look clean. It is about designing equipment so it can actually be cleaned, inspected, maintained, and used on a real production floor.

Because the work is custom, Fox & Associates can design around the project’s required material specifications, whether those requirements come from the OEM, equipment supplier, plant owner, or end user. These are purpose-built, purpose-designed systems and support structures, not generic equipment pulled from another use and adapted after the fact.

Stainless steel may be selected for rigidity, corrosion resistance, washdown durability, and long service life. UHMW, which stands for ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, may be used for certain plastic wear parts, guides, guards, or conveyor-related components where a dense, durable, low-friction material is needed.

Some projects also require no tube steel. Even capped tube can become a contamination concern if someone later drills into it or fastens a sign, bracket, or accessory to it. Once that happens, a sealed hollow member can become a long hidden pocket where moisture, residue, or debris can collect. When a project calls for no tube steel, Fox & Associates can design around angle iron, open sections, formed parts, and other cleanable alternatives wherever practical.

Where tube steel is allowed, the design can call for fully sealed ends, continuous welds, and details intended to reduce hidden collection points.

The goal is practical cleanability. Equipment should give sanitation crews access to the areas that need to be cleaned without forcing them to fight the design with a toolbox every night. Guards, platforms, access panels, conveyor details, brackets, and support structures should be planned so the equipment is easier to clean, easier to inspect, and easier to keep in production.

Fox & Associates supports hygienic equipment design with SolidWorks-based layouts, custom mechanical design, fabrication-ready drawings, BOM packages, access platforms, conveyor support, and production-focused design details.

After the main project deliverables have been sent, approved, and accepted, Fox & Associates can also provide add-on production-support tools through the =FOX= Advanced Toolkit. These tools can help turn released drawing and BOM data into practical systems for purchasing, tracking, delivery planning, job-shop checklists, and project follow-through.