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Novolyze Food Safety And Quality Platform

Solution Helps Ensure Food Safety and Quality Standards Compliance

Provides insights to identify priority pathways for improvement

ThinkIQ’s cloud-based platform takes into account contextual data across the supply chain.

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.

The out-of-box functionality of the TrakSYS MES platform provides monitoring, measuring, reporting, and analytics to run manufacturing operations more effectively.

MES Provides Insight Needed in Competitive Distillery Sector

The Bourbon Trail is facing tight margins and market erosion, making the insights from Parsec’s TrakSYS software particularly helpful. But the food and beverage industry overall could benefit from capabilities in OEE, track and trace, and more.

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.

ParityFactory software gives GoldRiver Orchards real-time insights on its walnut inventory, providing a much better idea of what is available to sell.

Automated Control Gives Walnut Processor Real-Time Insight Into Inventory

Switching over from manual recordkeeping to digital tracking has provided the producer with a more accurate view of walnut quantities, qualities, and a host of other attributes that were previously difficult to monitor.

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Extending Machinery Life With MaaS

The latest research details the key technologies needed for successful predictive maintenance on machines and machine components.

Pod Pack now operates 14 packaging lines producing half a dozen formats with contract packaging customers including all the big national brands, local regional brands, hospitals, schools, foodservice, and anywhere else you can imagine.

Coffee Pod Co-Packer Realizes Perks of ERP System

Between limiting downtime, speeding up throughput, and a host of soon-to-be realized improvements via ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software data harvesting, Pod Pack is making the most of its new ERP system.

ACC Announces Smart Start Program

Automated Control Concepts (ACC) announces a new initiative—Smart Start—designed to help manufacturers begin the journey to digital transformation and information-based decision-making.

Microsoft's Power Platform is designed to democratize advanced analytics, bringing the technology to companies of all sizes.

Understanding Analytics Software for Industry

From knowing the difference between basic and advanced analytics to applying the technology to address operations ranging from production to human resources, understanding analytics is fast becoming critical to the manufacturing and processing industries.

Beckhoff Twin Cat Cloud Engineering Software

Software Provides Foundation for IoT-based Automation Strategies

Ithaca Beer Co. upgraded to a semi-automated brewing process using the FactoryTalk Craft Brew platform from Rockwell Automation to produce 25,000 barrels of beer a year. Photo courtesy of Rockwell Automation.

Ithaca Beer Co. upgrades to a semi-automated brewing process

A standardized yet customizable control platform gives the craft brewery better visibility into its operational efficiency while offering flexibility to fully automate its production in the future.

With the craft beer industry becoming more mature, Deschutes’ process optimization efforts should help create better margins. Image courtesy of Deschutes Brewery.

Deschutes Brewery’s new ERP creates one source of truth

Besides the manufacturing/production software options, Deschutes currently uses the food safety compliance, warehouse/inventory, purchasing and reporting analytics within the ERP platform.

System integrator ECS Solutions created a procedural and equipment view for JTM Food Group’s operators, based on ISA-88 standards. Image courtesy of ESC Solutions.

New plant cooks up manufacturing flexibility with automation

JTM Food Group’s greenfield plant in Ohio features advanced automation to optimize its batch processing applications and meet changing consumer demands.

Jeffrey Barach explains how blockchain may be a more thorough, accurate and timely solution for traceability in the food supply chain.

Blockchain for food: A solution for supply chain transparency issues?

The shared, immutable ledger database is in the spotlight as a potential tool to improve transparency and better facilitate recalls.

Polytron's live, in-booth case study demonstrated real-world OEE improvement at a bottling plant.

Line simulation IDs OEE improvement opportunity

Polytron used its platform at ProFood Tech to demonstrate a case in which OEE metrics were improved in a real-word bottling application.

Sealed Air’s SEE Smart Service digital portfolio features a dashboard like this one.

Sealed Air: Smart analysis of packaging equipment

Sealed Air’s SEE Smart Service digital portfolio relies on the Device Control Link cloud-enabled technology that monitors, manages, reports, and analyzes data from interconnected sources on packaging equipment.

Profinet, based on Ethernet technologies, integrates existing fieldbus systems. Source: PI North America

New technologies extend the life of legacy networks

Neither Ethernet nor fieldbus have all the answers for industrial applications. Suppliers and industry groups are working on ways forward that take into consideration the needs—and limitations—of the present.

New PET line for water runs at 20,000 bph.

Turnkey line for PET

Tousnina Sarl, a water bottler in Algeria, recently installed a turnkey line for PET bottles that runs at 20,000/hr.

iFix 6.0 features enhanced security and alarm capabilities, as well as new HMI/SCADA application development capabilities.

New HMI/SCADA release highlights GE Digital’s new path

The release of iFix 6.0 shows GE Digital’s continued support for and development of its existing technologies as the company reorganizes around new technology groupings designed for cross-industry use.

Matt Harrison, head of cultivation at TILT Holdings, checks the grow room, which holds more than 300 plants.

An automated approach to emerging markets

Technology suppliers are delivering cost-effective and customizable control products for sub-markets like craft beer and cannabis that need consistent quality and repeatable processes, as well as business model scalability.

Joyce Fassl, Editor-in-Chief, explains how optimizing data use can solve many of the industry's biggest problems.

Actionable data collection remains as the holy grail

Strategic decision-making depends on a single, reliable infrastructure that unifies data silos and a single source of operational insights.