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Beak & Johnston collaborates with Fortude to boost facility’s manufacturing capabilities

AU Manufacturing

Beak & Johnston has previously adopted Infor M3 at its Andell Park Facility but has partnered with Fortude for the Greenacre plant rollout to tap into the firm’s deep domain expertise and strong implementation track record in the food and beverage industry.

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Improving efficiency through algorithmic production scheduling

Control Engineering

Explore strategies for gaining stakeholder buy-in on MES platform upgrades. Production scheduling insights A Farmer Brothers facility in Northlake, TX adopted a new manufacturing execution system (MES) for the purpose of production schedule optimization. Brandon Brock , senior system architect, Polytron.

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IMTS / Hannover Messe Chicago Recap

Gary Mintchell

. • ABB helps businesses of all sizes embrace the flexibility afforded by robotics to efficiently adapt production to satisfy their customer’s most pressing needs, especially as reshoring becomes a prominent means to address ongoing supply chain backlogs. For more information. For more information. For more information.

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

Control Engineering

Project background After several years of product development, the RedLeaf Biologics team had reached a point where extract from their unique red sorghum plant was commercially and economically viable for various markets, including food, beverage and cosmetics. This did require swift attention and decision turnaround times.

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Leveraging real-time data across the enterprise

Control Engineering

Manufacturers have many crucial systems that need to talk with one another. The traditional manufacturing stack includes human-machine interfaces (HMIs), supervisory controls and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, manufacturing execution systems (MES) and ERP layers.