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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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PDA to Exhibit at Manufacturing & Technology Industry Week Event

Process and Data Automation (PDA), a member of the Krones group, will be exhibiting at Booth #616 at the Manufacturing & Technology Industry Week event, April 1-3, 2019, in Pittsburgh, PA. PDA will be highlighting their Digitalization Group services, as they are the solution in North America for: Industrial Automation…

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Plant Support Service Agreement from PDA: Offering a Spectrum of Services to Our Customers

Part 1: Our Team is Your Team! There are many advantages of having a Plant Support Service Agreement from PDA—and we can tell them to you all day—BUT—it’s not until you need it that you realize just how beneficial the spectrum of services can be. In our ongoing three-part series,…

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Digitalization Digest: Why Integrated Systems?

Manufacturers throughout the United States are beginning to enjoy fully integrated systems.  This doesn’t just mean integrated equipment lines, rather, it includes real-time ERP connectivity, connectivity to labeling software and systems, connectivity to physical warehouse via AGV interface and control, and connectivity to the finished goods storage. As plants need…

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We’re Not Your Average DSG Team!

Process and Data Automation’s (PDA) Digitalization Group (DSG) is not your average software integration group. PDA places a lot of emphasis on training for the benefit of our customers and as such, makes sure that members of the DSG group are certified as ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Fundamentals Specialists and have…

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PDA’s expertise on Plant Digitalization leveraged in Food Engineering Article

In a January article for Food Engineering Magazine, Joe Snyder, president of Process and Data Automation offered his expertise on the future of digitalization for manufacturing plants. An excerpt with Joe's expertise on how IIoT benefits Production and Packaging: A system that is properly tuned to operate as an integrated…

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PDA is successfully CSIA certified again!

Process and Data Automation is proud to announce that we’ve received our third CSIA certification, a special distinction, following an intensive independent audit that assessed our performance against customer-centric criteria in a wide range of business, project management, and system development areas. CSIA is a worldwide organization who helps members…

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How Processors Can Guard Against Cyberattacks

In a recent interview for Food Engineering Magazine, Process and Data's Director of Data Services, Scott McCausland, shared his cybersecurity expertise. “Industrial control systems should be isolated on their own networks—independent of any extraneous business network,” says Scott McCausland, director of data services at Process and Data Automation - Data…

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Open Lab Exemplified

Engineering firm leverages partnership with Behrend Any successful business owner knows the value of a reliable supply chain. That’s true not only for materials but also for human resources. A pipeline of talent is as important to the bottom line as efficient shipping of raw materials or the right channel…

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