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Nourished’s 3D-printed Supplement Stacks Deliver Personalized Nutrients
Based on a consumer questionnaire, ingredients are printed in stacks on in-house developed tech to offer a bespoke 28-day supply. The resulting colorful, customized gummies are packed in home-compostable wrap in a letterbox-friendly carton.
Robotics
Over 50% of CPGs to Increase Cobot Spending
Robotics
Industrial Cobot Technology Comes to Palletizing Operations
Automation
CPG Cobot Use Expected to At Least Double in Next Five Years
Process Instrumentation
Digital Recorder Replaces Cumbersome Paper Charts
Take Five
Mark Anthony Brewing Constructs $490 Million Facility to Meet Growing Eastern U.S. Market
As the fourth largest brewer in the U.S., the company’s new 1.3 million-sq.-ft. facility in Columbia, S.C., can produce 6 million barrels of finished product and package 80 million cases per year, with a packaging speed of almost 1,000 barrels per hour.
Software
How to Tame an Unpredictable Supply Chain
Supplies are being disrupted both coming and going for food and beverage manufacturers. Shifting philosophies, combined with a range of digital technologies, could help make operations more predictable and resilient.
Sponsored
Bulk Bag Filling: Increase Bulk Material Packaging Efficiency
Move beyond constraints of build-to-order machine manufacturers. See how engineered-to-application bulk bag filler design and construction increases bulk material packaging efficiency and accuracy.
Controls
OEM's Head-to-head Pneumatic vs. Servo Test Shows CPGs Savings
Stacking equipment manufacturer Forpak devised a test to see how incumbent pneumatic actuators stacked up against newer mechatronic servo technology, specifically on a frozen food stacking and laning application. These are the results.
Automation
Automating Your Plant Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
An automation roadmap identifies the key steps that help define the process of developing your automation strategy and includes a formal decision-making process on how to proceed properly.
Automation
Wago Inline Splicing Connectors Provide Slimmer Design
Offer greater flexibility
Security
Hackers Shift Focus to Packaging and Processing
Pervasive new technology increases entry points for cyber attacks. Discover cybersecurity solutions at PACK EXPO International (Oct. 23-26; McCormick Place, Chicago).
Process Instrumentation
Ashworth Monitoring System Minimizes Production Downtime
Allows access to multiple spiral/plant locations
Software
The Workforce Undergoes Its Own Digital Transformation
Tools that will help manufacturers tap into and transfer knowledge across the organization.
Automation
Automation Doesn’t Have to Require a Complete Overhaul
Small changes can make big improvements to the efficiency of your operations.
Automation
Force Control Industries Offers Made in America Industrial Clutches and Brakes
This family-owned company designs, manufactures, inventories, and services industrial clutches and brakes. It has been manufacturing domestically for over 50 years, supplying cost-effective Buy American Act-compliant industrial products.
Robotics
Bosch Rexroth AMR Improves Safety and Productivity of Manufacturing Facilities
Can automate material handling applications without additional external infrastructure
Security
New Industrial Control System Security Threat
The U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency issues new alert about attacks targeting ICS/SCADA devices.
Robotics
Stäubli Robots Transform Cheesemaking
The company’s specialized hygienic robots for cheese production to be showcased at CheeseExpo 2022
Automation
Digital Transformation of the Industrial Workforce
The tools that help Pretium Packaging, Covestro, and J.M. Smucker Company tap into and transfer tribal knowledge on the factory floor.
Automation
4 Ways to Ensure Your Data Lake Doesn’t Become a Data Swamp
To make data lakes work for time-series data, it’s important to add good metadata, ensure the ability to connect your analytics platform to your data lake, and take steps to improve data lake performance for data analysis.
IIoT
Moving Maintenance From Preventive to Predictive
The technology is available to provide the kind of maintenance know-how that will keep operations humming along. But the average plant will need to overcome some hurdles to realize the benefits.
Robotics
High-Speed Pick & Place is Washdown Ready
The Orics DS Series robot is constructed from stainless steel, designed to withstand harsh washdown water and steam environment in the food, chemical, and medical industries.
Robotics
Kuka Robots Are Designed for Hygienic Food Processing
Meet all safety and hygienic requirements
Controls
Amway’s Energy Drink Meets Skyrocketing Demand Through Digital Thread
The PlantPAX control system from Rockwell Automation is enabling greater operator efficiency, real-time troubleshooting, simplified data analysis, and increased manufacturing flexibility, among other improvements, through increased connectivity.
IIoT
Wago Computer Is Built for Powerful, High-end Applications
Offers low latency control, a high level of determinism, and simplified north/south connection with cloud-based services
Software
User-Defined Continuous Improvement Software
SafetyChain’s plant management platform is a personalizable suite of software delivered as a service that addresses data capture and visualization as well as worker task direction from receiving and processing to regulatory compliance.
