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Pepsi Adopts Real-Time Digital Technology Tool for a ‘Quick-Win’

Food and beverage companies are seeking quick wins and ‘proof of technology’ projects that lead to increased efficiencies while also focusing on digital strategy roadmaps so manufacturers can scale.

Grant Gerke

June 12, 2024

Food and beverage companies are seeking quick wins and ‘proof of technology’ projects that lead to increased efficiencies while also focusing on digital strategy roadmaps so manufacturers can scale.

TECH FLASH

AIOE releases OEE Opportunity Calculator to track productivity gains

OEE is a commonly adopted KPI, and companies should continue to look for productivity improvement opportunities even after its adoption.

Shane O'Halloran

February 26, 2014

Understanding the relationship between OEE and improvement is essential.

Manufacturing News

Practice makes perfect, especially when it comes to food safety

Employees need feedback on how well they're doing their jobs.

Wayne Labs

December 5, 2013

Procedures should be explained and performance evaluated according to an objective, predefined measurement system.

Manufacturing News

Making sense of all that big data

For most processors, traditional daily reports are compiled too late to be useful.

April 9, 2013

“Terabytes of data are spinning on our servers,” Dex Dutson, process control manager with ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston told attendees at ARC Advisory Group’s World Industry Forum held in Orlando in February.

TECH FLASH

Keeping key performance indicators in context

Treating key performance indicators as isolated values is a common mistake.

Shane O'Halloran

March 26, 2013

To get the most out of KPIs, incorporate them into the rest of your operation’s analytics.

Manufacturing News

Packaging lines got you down?

Tips to maximize packaging line uptime

March 6, 2013

When your packaging line seems to be down half the time—or when operating, it seems to be inefficient—it’s time to take a closer look.

Tech Update: Packaging Machine Controls

Wayne Labs

December 5, 2011

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.