In a Food Entrée & Manufacturing article, Achieving Sustainability Goals with Smart Automation, Emerson’s Chiara Ponzellini shares several examples of how original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) applied intelligent automation to drive operational performance improvements.
Food & Beverage
Addressing Food and Beverage Manufacturing Challenges
Four ways Emerson automation technology and expertise can enable improved manufacturing performance are by enabling greater flexibility to maximize production, reducing quality risks, increasing reliability, and improving sustainability.
Precise Cuts in Food Manufacturing
Emerson’s Mehdi Taki shares the secrets of precise cutting in food manufacturing processes in a Kennedy’s Confection article, Cutting Solution Offers Accurate Portion Control and Reduced Waste.
University of Kentucky Improves Blending Processes with Automated Density Measurements
The James B. Beam Institute at the University of Kentucky is a training facility for students and researchers looking to learn more about the bourbon industry. To support students and researchers in their learning, JCS Process & Control Systems, a builder of...
Time Sensitive Data From Anywhere, Anytime – Tereos Case Study
Read this case study about how Emerson helped Tereos with improved visibility and security to critical machine health with monitoring through data analytics.
How to Understand and Use a Great Tool: Instrumentation Diagnostics
In a Process Instrumentation article, Emerson’s Kelly Albano looks at a powerful but often underutilized tool, instrumentation diagnostics, and shows how you can use them to improve operations. Recently, while loading some software onto my computer, I saw a message at...
Micro Motion™ G-Series: Precision in a Compact Package
Over many years working with end users who are trying to solve challenging flow measurement problems, I’ve often suggested that a Coriolis mass flow meter is exactly the technology solution needed, but in some cases an alternative is preferred for a variety of...
FEI Foods Increases Production to Meet Worldwide Demand with Movicon.NExT™ Platform
Hello everyone. I’m Ajay Rana and recently, in an article in Food Manufacturing, I had the opportunity to talk about an interesting case study with FEI Foods, Europe’s largest producer of ready-to-eat rice and grain pouches, based in South Wales, UK. I think it has...
Food and Beverage Manufacturer Integrates Islands of Automation with Connext™ Platform
Connecting highly disparate machines that exist in separate operating entities in a manufacturing plant could save many companies substantial time and money, but pressing production schedules and the status quo of existing procedures often hold them back. A large food...
Choosing the Right HMI is Critical in Food Processing
In the food processing industry, users choose human machine interfaces (HMI) based on their potential to make operational performance improvements, which generally means the HMI needs to be easy to use. Ease of use supports increased operator efficiency and...
Edge Control Technology Eliminates Downtime During Critical Sugar Harvest
Like many other industries, food and beverage companies are often “rock and a hard place” enterprises. They need technology upgrades, but have such tight margins, every proposed change must be justified with precise ROI. One such company is Raceland Sugar, a major...
Increasing Efficiency in Sugar Production
Sugar can derive from two different plant sources: sugar beets and sugar cane. The first ones are harvested in mid to late autumn when sugar content peaks. The leafy beet tops are sliced off and the roots are lifted out of the ground with special harvesting equipment....
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