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Building a traceability 4.0 foundation for automation

Control Engineering

Traceability is widely used in the world of automation, and for good reason. For example, in the food and beverage industry, traceability consumes the entire supply chain from farmers to packagers and producers to retailers and consumers at the other end. foundation for automation appeared first on Control Engineering.

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Improving worker optimization on the factory floor with artificial intelligence

Control Engineering

Kuntz cited a food and beverage manufacturing that was looking to reduce machine downtime. Utilize and automate onboarding and training processes to help get workers skilled and operational faster to offset a rapidly churning workforce. Kuntz described it later as, “Think of it is overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) for people.”.

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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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Maximizing ROI: How Allen-Bradley Drives Can Save You Time and Money in the Long Run

DO Supply

The drives are essentially used to run critical operations in a competitive industrial automation marketplace, which necessitates the need to realize a significant return on investment (ROI) for these drives.

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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. SCADA is used for automation on the plant floor and ERP automates many tasks at the office level. Courtesy: Inductive Automation. Beverage maker chooses MES integration with SCADA.

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Turnkey approach for automating first-of-a-kind red sorghum extract process

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Explore the process of scaling up from an R&D environment to an automated food-grade production facility. Learn how pre-existing hardware, field devices and other equipment can be integrated into a new plant or facility. Discover how open architecture can be used to ease future scaling efforts.