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ISA’s program will focus on industrial operations, a point of focus for many food and beverage processors.

A modular energy management system can keep a facility’s cooling costs under control.

Improving asset utilization and innovation while managing risk will allow industry leaders to thrive.

The 2014 event will be held February 10-13 in Orlando, FL.

 Predictive and preventive maintenance tools help to reduce unplanned downtimes of critical equipment.

 Technologies must be properly applied after careful planning to ascertain where and what to automate. 

Production is king, so maintenance personnel are lucky to get an hour per month on the equipment for fine-tuning, says JBT FoodTech’s Hanssen. “Yet you cannot run this way profitability, so food and beverage companies have to build in the time for preventive and predictive maintenance. Maintenance and production work more closely together,” continues Hanssen.

The guide covers five steps in the journey to data-driven wisdom.

A combined organization could more comprehensively address field communications and intelligent device management.