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20 years of lines
Success in today’s packaging environment requires flexibility and performance. Manufacturers need predictable throughput and consistent quality with minimal risk to their contracts and staff. World-class manufacturers also have a good...
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Leveraging SAP MII for Business Information, Courtesy of Automation Signals
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...
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Digitalization Digest: Automation at the Facilities of a Condiments Manufacturer
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”...
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PDA Passes 4th Straight CSIA Audit!
Process and Data Automation (PDA) is proud to announce that we have passed the audit requirements established by the Control Systems Integrator Association (CSIA) for the fourth consecutive time!...
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Digitalization Digest: The Addition of Line Management
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...
Read MoreSCADA Improvement For Wastewater Treatment Facility
Project Summary Highlights: Hardware/Software implemented: Inductive Automation – Ignition HMI Rockwell – CompactLogix PAC Custom Control Panels Key Improvements: Obsolescence avoidance Migration planning Network design PLC programming HMI design Reporting...
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Digitalization Digest: Improving Manufacturing Processes with Effective Production Tracking
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...
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Digitalization Digest: Lines Configuration
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...
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Process and Data Automation Welcome Krones’ Digitalization Expert, Doug Brooks, to the Team
January 2021 – Process and Data Automation (PDA) is excited to officially welcome Doug Brooks, MES Project Manager, to our team. Doug has spent the past five years building the...
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Optimize Production Operations with Share2Act
Digitalization is revolutionizing the world. Share2Act is revolutionizing the beverage industry and rendering its production operations intelligent and efficient. Share2Act networks staff, machines, and IT systems, and is thus the...
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