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Through digitalization, we are in a profound transformation process that is changing the way we communicate, work, and learn. Where the possibilities change, the demands on learning and teaching also do.
Challenges and Strategies Shaping Traceability in Food and Beverage Packaging
Authenticity is essential in the food and beverage packaging industry. Food allergies, as well as expired or contaminated foods, can cause serious illness and possibly death, so consumers need to know that the products they’re purchasing are safe.
Automatic Self-Cleaning Scraper Strainers Filter Smallest Particles to Largest Debris
Unlike backwash systems, scraper strainers reliably resist clogging and fouling when faced with micron-sized particles, oversized solids, and high solids concentration. To enable its use as cooling water, industrial facilities such as power, processing, and manufacturing plants prefilter raw water from rivers, lakes, gulfs, and coastlines to remove organic, aquatic, and other solids.
Endress+Hauser Achieves New High in Patents, Honours Company Innovators
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of patents granted Endress+Hauser Group worldwide reached a new one-year high last year of 738, or 61 more than 2019. The company’s intellectual property portfolio is more extensive than ever.
Standards for Individualists, or: What Exactly Suits My Machines?
One of the most significant challenges in today’s manufacturing technology is the question: How do I serve the “very special and unusual” wishes of end consumers? As things stand today, this would appear to apply only to the end consumer worlds. But the current trend towards factoring in individual customer wishes entails consequences that extend deep into production technology.
Strategies to Cut Costs and Improve Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity costs businesses a lot of money – and with no measurable monetary income as a result. That leaves executives and board members scratching their heads and wondering: “Why are we spending so much on this? Why do we need to employ expensive professionals to manage and operate cybersecurity?”
Are You Ready for Next Level Decision-Making?
Chances are, you’ve heard the expression “drowning in data.” And if you’re in the CPG industry, you’ve seen the proliferation of intelligent devices and data collection on the plant floor – and the quest for more data extending across all functions of your organization.
How to Avoid Lost Time Accidents and Increase Plant Safety
In a world where plant productivity is everything, a lost time accident is the last thing anyone needs. Such an incident becomes an OSHA recordable event, adding a blemish to a company’s safety record, and leads to unplanned downtime.
How Connections Transform Frontline Operations
In a global business environment characterized by disruption, change and volatility, the digital transformation of industrial operations is much more than a well-established trend.
Why Double-Ended Sensor Cables Make More Cents
Last month we looked at decoding all those M12 connectors from A to Y-Coded and narrowed things down to the four main types of M12 connectors you’re likely to run into on machines and assembly lines out there.
Decoding the Most Versatile Industrial Connector in the World
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Top Three Areas Where a Cobot Can Dramatically Improve Productivity
There re quite a few repetitive tasks in manufacturing. If all of these tasks must be performed manually, then a large number of a manufacturing company’s employees would be occupied with extremely mundane and tedious activities throughout the day.
Endress+Hauser W.I.N. Initiative Promotes Diversity, Inclusion of Women, Minorities
Endress+Hauser Group, in keeping with its role as global leader in measurement instrumentation, is conducting an employee-led program to increase the participation of women at all levels in the company.
Three Ways In Which IO-Link Sensors Minimize Downtime
IO-Link technology was created in response to three consecutive challenges. The first was the tendency of manufacturers to use whichever I/O system protocol they liked best, causing the devices to not “play well” with those of other manufacturers.
Omron and Proax Enhance Customer Experience Through 4-Year Challenge
Launched in 2017, the initiative challenged Omron’s channel partners to further the company’s mission of improving lives and contributing to a better society by striving for accelerated growth.