New Year’s resolution: You want to improve your process, cut downtime, increase efficiency, better your product quality and make your food even safer. Who doesn’t? And today, there are all kinds of technology you can throw at these “wants,” but if you’re just flinging technology at processes and equipment without a clear goal in sight, real solutions could be elusive.
Problem is, unless your plant is new and has a single vendor providing a complete turnkey process/packaging/palletizing solution with a consistent communications infrastructure, you probably have a smattering of hardware, equipment and software scattered throughout your facility. So you’d like to get some of the existing islands of automation and equipment “talking” to each other and providing you with some useful information.