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Improving efficiency through algorithmic production scheduling

Control Engineering

What types of automation, controls or instrumentation were involved? The second phase included incorporating additional assets such as packaging lines, flavor line, grinders, dump stations and sack line.

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Benefits of integrating a MES system with SCADA

Control Engineering

Connecting layers of the manufacturing process is a crucial step in building a more effective operation and automation system. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), manufacturing execution systems (MES) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) are three of the most important levels of the manufacturing process.

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Platinum ERP Solutions from BusinessHub

Manufacturer's Monthly

Image: BusinessHub BusinessHub aims to empower manufacturers with tailored enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, focusing on modernisation, scalability, and deep industry expertise. Additionally, they seek improved inventory visibility to enhance planning and procurement processes.

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Increasing production with less capital

Control Engineering

A beverage manufacturer looked to improve production, but needed insights on from a digital data platform to help put together actionable insights. Gathering data about a facility’s operations enabled a beverage manufacturer to understand what was really at the heart of their issues in the facility. Learning Objectives.

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How data is making a flour mill run smarter and leaner

Control Engineering

Interstates developed a complete control system, drawing packages, network design and implementation, data collection and enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration for a flour mill. The goal was to improve product quality, maximize equipment and employee efficiency, all through automation and data collection.

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Best Practices for a Successful MES Strategy Part 1: Understanding Your Business Drivers

Polytron

Our Solution: Performance Management Lack of a Real-Time Schedule Connected to Your ERP Your Challenge: You print your daily production schedule every morning from your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and hand it to your operators.

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Industrial data analysis case studies, effectiveness

Control Engineering

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? A large food and beverage manufacturer had such a problem.