Proax is proud to announce that they have been certified as a Great Place to Work after a thorough, independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work Institute Canada. This certification is based on direct feedback from employees, provided as part of an extensive and anonymous survey about their workplace experience.
Schneider Electric, a major provider in digital transformation of energy management and automation, recently released a research report to foster an understanding of how digitized and smart applications will be powered in the future.
As a developer and manufacturer of safe automation technology, Pilz is legally required to minimise risks when using its products and to focus on the current state of the art. Ultimately it’s about protecting humans, machines and the environment.
Software for programmable logic controllers can vary greatly from the programming language they use to the testing and documentation tools they offer. There are a lot of them out there, with many manufacturers having proprietary software that works with their devices only.
Production, warehouse, shipping – where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several individual goods are removed from storage units such as boxes or cartons and reassembled.
With a versatile range of automation components for demanding applications, SCHUNK was in attendance at this year’s Automatica, which took place as a purely digital event, the “automatica sprint”, from June 22 to 24, 2021.
Serialization legislation is requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to ensure that labels printed at a late stage contain all data necessary for compliance. Since many product labels are customized by markets, customer, or product type, adding variable data to labels or packaging is a way to avoid stocking individual packaging materials for each variant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?”
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.
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.
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.