Control Engineering

OCTOBER 22, 2023

If you are curious how digital transformation might be right for your business, this article is for you. For process manufacturing, digital transformation—the base of “Industry Manufacturing 4.0”—is Your manufacturing company suffers inconsistencies, time crunches, and other setbacks from outdated systems.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Farmer Brothers embarked on their Industry 4.0 After implementing the new MES platform, schedules could be generated multiple times per day as needed based on changing conditions and priorities, which in the past was too time consuming to do. Can you please give a brief description of the project?

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Automation market: While numerous industries are experiencing difficulties due to economic challenges, the Bundy Group team sees no signs of slowing automation market growth over the next few years. In a June 2022 report , HFS pointed out that “COVID-19 was a wake-up call for firms that had not yet implemented Industry 4.0”

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Control Engineering

APRIL 20, 2023

Topics of emphasis included artificial intelligence and machine learning, carbon-neutral production, energy management, hydrogen and fuel cells and Industrie 4.0. Many of the larger booths not only had food and beverages, they had a decent variety of both and encouraged people to sit down and have meetings and build a connection.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Kuntz cited a food and beverage manufacturing that was looking to reduce machine downtime. That’s easier said than done with a major skills gap in manufacturing, which is being made because the tenure rate for a manufacturer has dropped. Before COVID, it was down 20%. It got much worse, Kuntz said, during and after the height of the pandemic.

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Canadian Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

CAMBRIDGE — ATS Corporation has amended its articles in accordance with the Business Corporations Act to change its legal name from “ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.” ” to “ATS Corporation.”

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

in 2021, with non-automotive companies in sectors such as metals, food and beverage, plastics and rubber and others accounting for 58% of the total demand. The lab features an array of ABB robots and software to provide students with the experience and knowledge of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing technologies.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The automation and process control system integrators discuss case studies that show the benefits of in-depth data analysis in this partial transcript from the April 21, 2022, RCEP PDH webcast (archived for 1 year), “ Just enough industrial data analysis? Related data analytics articles. This has been edited for clarity.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 18, 2022

For mid-sized food and beverage facilities, unplanned downtime costs around $30,000 per hour. Let’s consider pneumatics maintenance in food and beverage processing, where compressed air is heavily used to actuate auxiliary and hygienic valves through discrete pilot valves or valve systems. That’s where predictive maintenance comes in.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Courtesy: Weidmuller Migration opportunities hold universal applicability, given that PLCs are used across many industries. Petrochemicals, oil, gas, food and beverage, pulp and paper, steel — there’s not a machine in the world that doesn’t have a PLC, or a controller of some type.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 20, 2022

RF: We’ve leveraged our 30+ years of experience to build a framework that allows users to deliver the data and build their own work instructions, to link to their own knowledge management capabilities, e.g., articles or manuals from their OEMs. Essentially it comes from the customers.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Aligning the project with the strict requirements for highly regulated industries like pharmaceutical manufacturing and food and beverage processing required deep experience and knowledge in this area. Fulfilling the promise of Industry 4.0 . The promise of Industry 4.0

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