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Johannes Kohne, technical manager for Emsland Frischgeflügel, keeps an eye on the performance data of all vacuum pumps from the large screen in his office.

Digital Services Save Maintenance Time and Cost for Chicken Producer

With connected information from its new Busch Vacuum Solutions system, Emsland Frischgeflügel is saving 70% on maintenance costs.

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New Tools for Digitalization of Your Packaging Line

Casa Sauza CEO trains on data analytics

Casa Sauza Automates Tequila Production in Mexico with Industry 4.0

Digital Transformation

CPGs to Spend $23.8 Billion on Digital Transformation by 2030

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Two Key Areas of Cybersecurity Vulnerability in Manufacturing

Predictive Maintenance

Predictive Maintenance: A Tale of Two Technologies

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Predictive Maintenance Pain Points in Packaging Machinery

With demands caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, West Liberty Foods had to shift more of its production from bulk food service packages to smaller retail packages for consumers.

COVID-19 Provides a Push for Digital Innovation

Transformation Trends

Moving Automation Up the Line

According to a new report by PMMI Business Intelligence, OEMs and suppliers should assist manufacturers to identify new automation projects that lie outside the traditional end-of-line packaging and palletizing.

September 9, 2020

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Compressed Air Measurement Helps Reduce Energy Use

Installing Festo’s E2M energy efficiency modules helped medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers tackle their environmental footprint, not only saving money but using the data to provide predictive maintenance as well.

August 18, 2020

Festo Life Sciences Plant

Data & Analytics

Bosch Updates Industry 4.0 Software to Digitalize Manufacturing

Along with its launch of the second release of the Nexeed Industrial Application System, Bosch has rolled out a ‘Manufacture #LikeABosch’ campaign to raise awareness for industrial digitalization.

June 19, 2020

Bosch’s new ‘Manufacture #LikeABosch’ campaign playfully shows how digitalization is improving production and logistics.

New Technologies Feed the Hunger for Information

Trying to keep up with productivity, quality, safety, sustainability, and other industry demands, food and beverage plants are turning increasingly to the innovations found in today’s sensor instrumentation.

May 19, 2020

Image-based scanners are displacing standard laser scanners, providing the capability to read 2D barcodes, which can be much smaller than traditional barcodes. Photo courtesy of Cognex.

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The Significance of Global Standards in the Supply Chain

Purdue Polytechnic's Smart Learning Factory, with a finished setup after recent installations.

Purdue University Prepares Students for the Factory of the Future

Humanoid robots, also referred to as general-purpose robots, use AI to perform the tasks they’re given to do.

Humanoid Robots and the AI That Drives Them

My Unilever App

Unilever Digitally Connects Employees in the Plant