While industrial automation and digital transformation may be the solution to industry’s productivity, cost and workforce issues, the fact is that many plants still retain manual processes. A holdover from previous generations when industrial sites had no choice but to use highly disparate systems with no common communications link, these manual processes, while time-consuming and error-ridden, often seem too entrenched and costly to change. One such company is Pizzoli S.p.A., the largest Italian potato processor.
Like so many companies, Pizzoli’s production lines were all operated by disparate, isolated machines, which required arduous manual data collection. Trying to improve productivity and greatly reduce the potential for error, Pizzoli found that a highly flexible SCADA-based platform, Emerson’s Movicon platform, made the automation of its production a simple, straightforward process.
You can read all about this company’s experience in this Proven Result.