process control | Food Engineering

AI

Planning for AI-based Automation Systems

Artificial intelligence, coupled with machine learning, promises to improve plant operations from sensor level to the enterprise, but adoption has been slow with some overzealous starts.

Wayne Labs

December 12, 2024

A well-thought-out strategy can maximize the benefit of having the right sensors in the right place with the right controls.

Artificial intelligence built into vision systems

AI: Behind-the-Scene Partner in Process Applications

Rather than apply AI/ML in one big fell swoop, why not choose applications that use AI to make them more efficient and build from there?

Wayne Labs

June 7, 2023

AI is a must to improve process quality, save energy and maintain equipment.

Sustainable, “Plug-and-Play” Shrimp Farming Sets up Anywhere Food Engineering

Shrimp farming comes with complications from contamination to environmental impacts. Atarraya has create d an alternative method to farming shrimp through automated aquaculture. The company’s Shrimpbox aims to be a modular and scalable solution to traditional shrimp farming.

Wayne Labs

November 8, 2022

This shrimp farming technique saves the ocean and other fish species.

Plant Operations

Today’s Connected Plant: A Unified Machine for Making Food

A concept by a 20th century architect points toward today’s digital transformation—bringing all systems in a plant together as a single integrated tool.

Wayne Labs

October 24, 2022

Connect process control with building management controls to save energy, improve efficiency.

AI in process control

A process is only as good as the technology behind it

Kristen Kazarian

June 6, 2022

AI use in food processing is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 45% between now and 2026, promising improved safety and food quality, according to HUB Risk Services. But AI in food processing is not without risk.

Product Focus: Energy Management

ABB Sugar library

March 8, 2022

The company’s Ability sugar application library provides precise control of all applications and detailed process data that helps benchmark operational costs such as energy use.

Process Control

Your window to the process: Clear view or obstructed?

Today’s process control software is tasked to keep machine interfaces easy to configure for both engineers and operators

Wayne Labs

March 7, 2022

Chances are, you’ve probably been using the same HMI, MES or SCADA program for some time in your operation, and you’ve been through several version upgrades too. Providers of these products work hard to make their software backward compatible with equipment and operating systems as well as create new features users want.