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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.
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Amway’s Energy Drink Meets Skyrocketing Demand Through Digital Thread
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Wago Computer Is Built for Powerful, High-end Applications
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Krones Combines its Digitalization Activities
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IDEC 7-in. HMI Uses Smartphone-type Glass Touch Panel
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Operational Success: Productivity Under Pressure
Multifunctional equipment and changeovers, as well as the use of predictive process analytics, can make the difference in achieving operational excellence during challenging times for food and beverage manufacturers.
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Alfa Laval Gateway Leverages Digitalization to Optimize Hygienic Processing
Detects issues that impact future performance to improve asset management
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Your recipe, automated to perfection
Whether it's storing, sifting, metering, weighing or transferring, Shick Esteve is your complete flour reclaim and ingredient automation systems provider.
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Web-based Portal Provides Boiler Room Operators With Real-time Information
Data available via computer, laptop, tablet, or mobile device
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Counting Down the Top 10 Articles of 2021 – No. 8: Wearable Technology Bolsters Worker Safety
Join us as we look back at ProFood World’s most popular articles of 2021. Coming in at No. 8 is an article that came from sister publication Automation World and its coverage of wearable technologies at PepsiCo.
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Three Ways Artificial Intelligence is Changing Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence can aid in remedying some of the pain points in manufacturing, such as maintaining consistent product quality, need for predictive maintenance, and demand for actionable insights from sensor data.
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Wiliot Debuts its “Sensing as a Service” Platform
Wiliot showcased its platform and IoT Pixel technology at PACK EXPO Las Vegas that brings actionable intelligence to reusable packaging in support of more sustainable, transparent supply chains.
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FDA Announces Low- or No-Cost Food Traceability Challenge Winners
Companies respond to the challenge with source to store, farm to fork, and more localized traceability solutions.
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Will the Future of MES and SCADA Be More Closely Mixed?
The growing overlap in functionalities between MES and SCADA are likely to continue with tighter integration in pursuit of a single pane of glass.
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Handheld HMI Is Small and Lightweight
Features an ergonomic design for long duration and fatigue-free use
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Can Operations Technology Be Secured and Managed With IT Tools?
Find out how operations technology devices can be discovered, secured, and managed with the same kinds of tools used by IT, with an eye toward downtime avoidance and change management for asset management and cybersecurity.
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Beverage Manufacturers Turn to Dynamic Machines and Automation to Meet SKU Expansion
Manufacturers are being pressed on all fronts to expand offerings in the beverage market, and they are turning to OEMs and suppliers to offer solutions at all points in the manufacturing process.
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Smart Manufacturing Platform Transforms Poultry Processing
U.S. government-funded CESMII is using ThinkIQ’s intelligence platform to drive smart manufacturing in a pilot project at a chicken rendering plant. The findings could help improve efficiencies across all kinds of energy-intensive industries.
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Automation Investment Expectations for the Batch Manufacturing Industries
In this second installment in our series covering automation investment expectations for 2021, suppliers highlight ongoing pandemic, supply chain, and labor issues driving near-term interest in specific technologies.
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Two Key Areas of Cybersecurity Vulnerability in Manufacturing
By better understanding operational weaknesses, manufacturers can guard against future threats. Read about two key areas that require assessment.
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Wearable Technology Bolsters Worker Safety
PepsiCo’s use of Kinetic’s Reflex wearable device has had a definitive impact on both worker safety and company culture.
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Automation Trends in Food Processing and Packaging: Remote Access
Remote access and augmented reality are two technologies that have seen increased usage in the food industry – particularly since the start of COVID-19.
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IoT Service Platform Puts Eyes on Critical Assets
The launch of Flowserve’s RedRaven platform provides remote monitoring and optimization of flow-related equipment and devices, enabling predictive maintenance for a number of industries.
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Predictive Maintenance 101
What does it mean, and why is it important? Learn more from a new PMMI Business Intelligence report.
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Automation Trends in Food Processing and Packaging: Remote Access
Watch part two of this three-part series on top automation trends impacting food processing and packaging today.
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COVID-19 Provides a Push for Digital Innovation
As food and beverage manufacturers scramble to keep workers safe and shelves stocked, many have moved forward with automation and digital transformation initiatives that might have only been on the radar before the pandemic.
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Making Sense of the Industrial Analytics Market
As organizations continue to see the value in industrial analytics, making sense of the sheer amount of data produced can be a difficult task. Finding the right product and developing a proper workflow is important to get long-term use out of the system.
