Volumes have been written about the current and future benefits of big data. Food manufacturing plants are excellent candidates for inclusion in enormous data sets based on information generated via large scale production and packaging systems. Add utility and consumption data and it becomes easy to see the holistic, valuable…
Process and Data Automation (PDA) has implemented Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) at dozens and dozens of client sites throughout North America. They regularly use the powerful Line Management (LM) software from Krones Digital to handle order management activities, ERP integration, changeovers, materials management, and more. The PDA team recently worked…
Managing a private label manufacturing portfolio can be challenging, and those challenges are only amplified as the portfolio grows to multiple products and divisions. One consistent challenge facing the managers of such portfolios is determining the level of capital infusion the holdings require to maintain and expand operations. Protecting…
Success in private label manufacturing depends on the ability to produce accurately and effectively across a potential host of end clients and their stock-keeping units (SKUs). Feeding the “effective” side of the equation includes both accurate production and skillful arrangement of orders, and the ability for the machinery to…
An energy drink manufacturer recognized the need for integrating features of a manufacturing execution system into its new production line. After careful consideration Process and Data Automation (PDA) was hired to configure SitePilot Line Management (LM) to the new production line. LM centralizes the coordination of the entire filling and…
A company that specializes in the manufacture of very large open-die forgings as well as open-die forged products such as discs, rings, sleeves, and shafts from high quality, clean steel contracted Process and Data Automation (PDA) to install systems to determine equipment efficiencies at two of their plants, the first…
A problem, facing a large beverage manufacturer, was the installed network operating at the plant, connecting the equipment on the production line. The approach that had been adopted was a hodgepodge that had grown with the plant. This resulted in the existence of multiple lines on a single network, an…
The next entry in our Digitalization Digest, articles and thoughts regarding manufacturing plant digitalization, focuses on a project for an international manufacturer of private label food and beverages across North America and Italy for retail grocery, food service, and industrial customers. Limited production capacity, due in part to an obsolescent…
The latest entry into our Digitalization Digest consists of a project for a Pennsylvania Borough of an existing Grit Well control system that was based on a DCS system. The system was proving to be very costly and now effectively obsolete and could not be readily expanded. The system’s age…
Network Review and Upgrade for a Chemical Company The first entry in our Digitalization Digest (articles and thoughts regarding manufacturing plant digitalization) consists of an Ethernet modernization planning project for a chemical company located in the southeastern USA. The company has seven distinct site locations on a campus that employs…
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