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In the face of coming regulations, as well as forecasts calling for increases in food production and decreases in food waste, the task at hand for food and beverage processors appears to be a monumental one.

 GE built the new Predix Cloud using its Predix software. 

For some time, industrial manufacturing companies have been looking for ways to bring together the seemingly divergent needs of enterprise networking systems and the real-time requirements of plant floor communications systems.

 The new designs offer ways for OT and IT to deploy a converged plant-wide Ethernet. 

 Features found at the show this September include the Brand Zone, Processing Zone and Reusable Packaging Pavilion. 

If run to failure is no longer an option, food and beverage processors have alternative ways to keep their equipment running at peak performance levels; they can plan maintenance schedules based on OEM suggestions.

 Four lanes of pneumatically actuated clamping devices and blade stops control the traffic of four rows of product and merge them to one lane for delivery to a palletizing system. 

 The five-year forecast predicts a healthy compound annual growth rate, with increased spending in the food and beverage industry.