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Controls technology advances in small increments, and every few decades, the changes justify a complete overhaul.

Efficient packaging lowers costs and improves the bottom line.

This tool for the food and beverage industry will help processors find the right integrator.

Keeping equipment running around the clock and a shortage of skilled maintenance people put the squeeze on processors.

Be it ever so humble, overall equipment efficiency is the focus of a growing number of plant automation projects, adding another component to the continuous improvement tool kit.

Hormel’s Progressive Processing plant is built for the long haul. A quarter century had passed since Hormel Foods had commissioned a new production facility. In designing its Dubuque plant, engineers aimed to create a facility that would be contemporary for the next 25 years.

Teaching packaging machines to communicate. Thanks to open standards, packaging machine controls communicate up and down the line and with MES and ERP systems to provide key performance data.