Cooking Up a Partnership
With busy lives and schedules often bursting at the seams, ready-to-eat (RTE) food has become a convenience that many indulge in—and some may even rely on. RTE meal providers highlight the taste, quality, and nutrition of their offerings, emphasizing premium ingredients and careful preparation as key selling points. However, an often-overlooked factor is the advanced automation operating behind the scenes in the kitchen to help create first-rate products. By automating processes like ingredient handling, cooking, and packaging, providers can ensure each meal is prepared safely, reliably, and cost-effectively.
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Dedicated Devices versus a PLC for PID Loop Control
Automated regulatory control of characteristics like flow, level, pressure, temperature, and many other types of analog values is essential for countless types of machinery, processing equipment, and commercial and industrial systems. The most common way to achieve this is with a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control loop. Today’s designers have some choices about what types of PID controllers they select.
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OEM Standardizes on AutomationDirect HMIs, Realizes Benefits
While automated equipment ideally runs itself, there remains a need for humans to interact with machinery for setup, monitoring, troubleshooting, and more. This role was once fulfilled by buttons, switches, lights, and the like, but today these interactions have largely been superseded by touchscreen human-machine interfaces (HMIs). Eric Cline, owner of a machine services shop that is also an OEM equipment manufacturer and systems integrator (SI), has experienced the transition to digital HMIs firsthand.
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Ever Motion Solutions – Supplier Profile
Since 1977, Ever Motion Solutions has been a trusted leader in industrial automation, designing and manufacturing high-performance motion control solutions including stepper, brushless motors and drives. The company uses its nearly 50 years of expertise to simplify motion control for customers worldwide and deliver reliable, durable products with an emphasis on innovation.
Founded by engineer Felice Caldi, Ever Motion Solutions is family-owned, employing 85 people and producing over 110,000 drives every year.
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WERA Toolset Giveaway
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Monthly Product Giveaway
This month you have a chance to win one of our newest products! Enter your info for a chance to win a 3-piece Channellock plier set. Contest is open for approximately 3 weeks after the newsletter is sent and is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only. Winner will be contacted via email.
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