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Joe Snyder Talks Shop on Behrend Talks Radio Series

In a recently aired Business Spotlight Behrend Talks interview, Process and Data President, Joe Snyder, gives a revealing look into PDA’s history, Joe’s personal path to entrepreneurship, the importance of being located on the Penn State Behrend campus and becoming a part of Krones. This interview, which aired on January…

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Bridging the IT/OT Gap

In a December article in Control,  Scott McCausland, PDA digitalization services manager discussed the need for cybersecurity on the plant-floor and how it really catalyzed when data acquisition (DAQ) devices and historians began to evolve. Similar to most cybersecurity efforts, PDA deploys defense-in-depth layers that make users secure enough based…

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Network Assessment: Line Specific

You are constantly dealing with: Demand for equipment connectivity Obsolete and aged equipment Disconnected equipment ISA-95 Model standards The necessity for smart manufacturing You need a solution that offers: Outputs like; status quo network scan, full inventory documentation, traffic scan summaries. and recommendations. In-plant, physical tracing of port-to-port connections including;…

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Give Yourself Peace of Mind with our Plant Support Agreement

Plant Support Service Agreements from Process and Data Automation (PDA): Offering a Spectrum of Services to Our Customers There are many advantages to Plant Support Services Agreements from PDA, however only at the point you need support, do you realize just how beneficial it is to have access to a…

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Digitalization Digest: Issue 1 – Network Review and Upgrade

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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Plant Support Service Agreements: Part 3

WHO: Food Manufacturer PROBLEM: Corporate Sales at the Food Manufacturer landed a big contract that required them to re-work one of their rooms. The project had a very aggressive timeline to finish and their normal sales cycle was not fast enough. HOW WE SOLVED IT: PDA was able to re-work…

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PDA is Ignition 7.9 GOLD Certified

Process and Data Automation (PDA) is proud to announce we have recently been Ignition 7.9 GOLD Certified. Ignition by Inductive Automation is the industry’s only server-centric industrial automation software platform with unlimited licensing, built for connecting industrial devices, databases, and business data together in one central location. Now, with the…

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PDA is Officially Sepasoft OEE Downtime Certified

Process and Data Automation (PDA) is proud to announce that we are officially Sepasoft Downtime certified. “This comes as a result of years of successfully working with these products. This certification is validation of the dedication of both parties to the success of joint projects”, PDA President Joe Snyder commented.…

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Plant Support Service Agreements from Process and Data Automation (PDA): Offering a Spectrum of Services to Our Customers Part 2

Part 2: Training can be part of our Service Agreement? Yep. When talking about the advantages of our Plant Support Service Agreement, employee training is often not thought of as part of service – but one of our clients discovered that training was their major need. PROBLEM: A frozen food…

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PDA’s expertise on Plant Digitalization leveraged in Food Engineering 2-Part Series

In a recent 2-part Digitalization series for Food Engineering Magazine, Scott McCausland, Digitalization Services Manager, offered his expertise on planning for digitalization in manufacturing plants. This two-part series takes the reader through the process of becoming a digitalized plant with experts weighing in on how to best navigate the journey. Part of that journey is a solid…

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