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Software
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.
March 14, 2021
ParityFactory software gives GoldRiver Orchards real-time insights on its walnut inventory, providing a much better idea of what is available to sell.
Software
Extending Machinery Life With MaaS
The latest research details the key technologies needed for successful predictive maintenance on machines and machine components.
February 12, 2021
Downtime Survey Results
Software
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.
October 20, 2020
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.
Beverage
Anheuser-Busch InBev Installs Remote Guidance Platform
The global brewer will save cost-consuming trips and support sustainable service, while reducing time for equipment repairs and overall downtime.
May 3, 2020
Anheuser Busch
Software
How serious are you about alarm management?
An Automation World reader survey detects a rising interest in alarm management best practices. It finds that, though many users are investing in new software, many are also missing the boat by giving their alarm philosophy short shrift.
October 2, 2019
Going to grayscale is catching on as a best practice in alarm management. Reserving color for abnormalities draws the operator’s
IIoT
Battle for Cybersecurity Spreads to Sensors
Even the lowest level of the Purdue model has become a target for hackers who want to attack manufacturing facilities. Automation vendors are scrambling to help users defend sensors and other intelligent devices.
August 29, 2019
Security routers and other appliances that can serve as firewalls need to be installed in industrial networks
Software
Approaching blockchain
At this point, there’s little doubt that blockchain will be widely used to verify industrial supply chain transactions in the not-too-distant future. The question is how to prepare your business for this data intensive verification platform.
June 14, 2019
Davide Picciotto of Siemens Industry speaking at the Manufacturing in America blockchain panel discussion.
Software
Putting the pieces together for a secure industry
Cybersecurity alliances are a key part of protecting the industrial sector from an increasingly coordinated and sophisticated attack base. How much can—or should—automation vendors work collaboratively for the good of all?
June 13, 2019
Cybersecurity
Software
Embedded PC features convenience and efficiency
Can serve as cost-effective, standalone controller
May 31, 2019
Beckhoff CX7000 embedded PC
Software
Control system is customized for each application
Variety of inventory strategies is available
April 10, 2019
Sterling Systems & Controls material traceability and batch validation system
Software
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.
March 11, 2019
Sealed Air’s SEE Smart Service digital portfolio features a dashboard like this one.
Software
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.
March 8, 2019
Profinet, based on Ethernet technologies, integrates existing fieldbus systems. Source: PI North America
Software
AI controller extends equipment life
Frees up employees from calculations, analyses and infrastructure upgrades
March 4, 2019
Omron Automation Americas Sysmac AI controller
Robotics
Engineering a digital transformation
L&T Technology Services rolls out “Factory D.0,” a set of technology and engineering services designed to help manufacturers identify areas within the organization that will benefit the most from digitalization.
March 1, 2019
Narayanan Ramanathan, global head of digital engineering at L&T Technology Services says, “Factory D.0 is a set of solutions we’ve developed in collaboration with smart manufacturing.”
Sustainability
High-fidelity analytics help optimize energy across process industries
KBC, a Yokogawa company, has introduced Visual MESA Multi-Period Optimizer 6 to reduce costly uncertainty in energy use over multiple time periods across generation portfolios.
March 1, 2019
Visual MESA Multi-Period Optimizer 6 allows companies to incorporate more precise forecasts into the decision-making process over various time horizons when dealing with multiple time-dependent constraints.
Processing Equipment
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.
March 1, 2019
iFix 6.0 features enhanced security and alarm capabilities, as well as new HMI/SCADA application development capabilities.
Software
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.
March 1, 2019
Matt Harrison, head of cultivation at TILT Holdings, checks the grow room, which holds more than 300 plants.
Software
Coriolis single-tube system precisely measures low flow quantities
Offers repeatability, even where process and ambient conditions fluctuate
February 26, 2019
Endress+Hauser Proline Promass A Coriolis single-tube system
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