7 ways digital transformation adds value to F&B companies
27 February, 2018 by Mike Edgett, Director of Industry Marketing for Process Manufacturing, InforIn today's marketplace, technology shouldn't be an afterthought but instead it must be an integral part of a company's overall strategy.
Advantech AIIS machine vision systems
01 February, 2018Advantech's AIIS product series aimed at vision inspection applications is suitable for food and beverage industry needs.
Technology uses social media conversations for customer engagement
17 January, 2018Manhattan Associates has announced the Manhattan Customer Engagement solution, which has the potential to change the Australian food retail sector by providing more personalised customer experiences.
ABB and Kawasaki partner on cobot project
29 November, 2017Industrial automation and robot suppliers ABB and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have announced the world's first cooperation that will focus on collaborative robots, or 'cobots'.
Boosting poultry production by automating incubators
27 November, 2017Using a method that dates to the early Egyptians, poultry producers have been using incubators to hatch eggs for more than a century. Now new control systems are set to improve yields 3–5% while energy costs are slashed by 30%.
IDEC Corporation MicroSmart FC6A Plus PLC
24 November, 2017With its expanded I/O capacity of up to 2060 local I/O, the Microsmart FC6A Plus PLC is said to be able to control and monitor the largest machines or entire small-scale manufacturing facilities.
Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray X38
25 October, 2017Manufacturers of pumped food products can benefit from high detection sensitivity and improved OEE with the X38 X-ray inspection system from Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray.
Panasonic Toughpad FZ-F1 rugged handheld tablet
23 October, 2017Panasonic has announced the Toughpad FZ-F1 fully rugged handheld tablet, powered by Windows 10 IoT Mobile Enterprise.
Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Industrial Software Platform
13 October, 2017EcoStruxure Industrial Software Platform is an integrated, modular software suite designed to address operational and business imperatives across the value chain in industrial and infrastructure businesses.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Express App Platform – Manufacturing
13 October, 2017Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) Express App Platform – Manufacturing simplifies application deployment in manufacturing plants and unifies the operation of legacy and smart-factory applications.
Meet Harvey the Harvester: the robot helping sustainable food production
11 October, 2017 by Nichola MurphyResearchers at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision at QUT have developed a robot that could reduce labour costs on farms and help sustainable food production.
Automating yoghurt production in Chobani's new plant
05 October, 2017When building its $30-million plant, yoghurt maker Chobani wanted to partner with automation and electrical experts who could respond to a production process based on a 'through process' as opposed to a 'batching process'.
Industrial Scientific iNet Now live monitoring software
26 September, 2017The Industrial Scientific iNet Now live monitoring software enables real-time monitoring of worker location, environment and status.
ORing IGMC-111GP Industrial Gigabit Ethernet Converter
31 August, 2017The industrial IGMC-111GP Gigabit Ethernet Converter by ORing is a media converter with a wide operating voltage. It supports all copper side speeds and enables user flexibility for a fibre interface via an SFP socket.
ORing IGS-9122GPM Ethernet networking switches
30 August, 2017ORing's IGS-9122GPM range of Ethernet networking switches is a modular managed industrial Ethernet switch with the base unit supporting 12 x 10/100/1000Base-T(X) ports and 2 x 100/1000Base-X SFP ports. The SFP ports can meet demand for long-distance data transmission with a selection of SFP modules.
