Remove Beverage Remove Industry 4.0 Remove Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
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Building a traceability 4.0 foundation for automation

Control Engineering

For example, in the food and beverage industry, traceability consumes the entire supply chain from farmers to packagers and producers to retailers and consumers at the other end. Industry 4.0 To maximize the benefits of Industry 4.0 Many industries require track-and-trace control and documentation.

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Improving worker optimization on the factory floor with artificial intelligence

Control Engineering

Kuntz cited a food and beverage manufacturing that was looking to reduce machine downtime. Kuntz described it later as, “Think of it is overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) for people.”. Before COVID, it was down 20%. It got much worse, Kuntz said, during and after the height of the pandemic.