Improving bulk material management through cloud inventory and continuous level sensors
Release Date: 01/05/2023
Smarter Machines, Stronger Businesses: AI’s Role in the Next Era of Manufacturing
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In this podcast with Keith Smith, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of IntelliAM, we are considering the role of AI in manufacturing – exploring the current challenges facing the industry as well as myth-busting the common barriers to adoption. IntelliAM – which stands for intelligent asset management – is a UK tech company specialising in AI and machine learning for the manufacturing industry. Many of the world’s largest manufacturers – including half of the world’s top 12 FMCGs – are using IntelliAM’s solution to unlock insights from billions of machine asset data...
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Goodbye Downtime: How Real-Time Spectroscopy Boosts Safety & Efficiency
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In this episode, we’re exploring the future of real-time process monitoring with a spotlight on Metrohm’s 2060 RISE, a high-tech Raman spectrometer designed to deliver lab-quality analysis directly within production environments. As industries grapple with growing demands for efficiency, safety and compliance, the ability to monitor materials in real time, without sending samples to a lab, is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Joining host Dave Howell, is Paul Hamilton, Business Manager for Metrohm Process Analytics in the UK, to break down why Raman spectroscopy is proving to be a...
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Beyond Pneumatics: Why Electric Pumps Are Reshaping Industry
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In this latest PII Podcast, Dave Howell speaks with Jeff Shaffer, Sales Director for Process Manufacturing at Graco, to explore how electric diaphragm pumps are redefining performance and sustainability across the process industries. Diaphragm pumps have long been the unsung workhorses of manufacturing—from paints to pharmaceuticals. But while demand for automation, energy efficiency and lower costs has soared, pump innovation has lagged behind. That’s now changing. Jeff shares insights into the rapid growth of the electric operated double diaphragm (EODD) pump market, projected to reach...
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Precision in Progress: Digital Calibration for Modern Manufacturing Processes
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In today’s industrial landscape, calibration and measurement are essential for efficiency, safety, and compliance. They drive advancements in automation, robotics, IoT, and digital transformation, ensuring precision and reliability. In this episode, Dave speaks with Sami Kosiken, Director of Digital Transformation, who discusses how process managers can implement accurate calibration to prevent disruptions, enhance safety, and ensure regulatory compliance with Beamex digitalised calibration solution, forming the foundation of modern industrial success.
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AI-Driven Transformation: How Innovation is Shaping the Future of Manufacturing
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In this episode, Dave speaks with Aaron Lober, Vice President of Marketing at CADDi, a trailblazing company in the field of manufacturing intelligence software. With over 15 years of experience in driving growth across various industries, Aaron shares his insights on how CADDi is revolutionising the manufacturing sector through strategic marketing and cutting-edge technology. We’ll dive into CADDi’s flagship product, CADDi Drawer, which utilises patented AI to transform supply chain data and enhance product development. Join us as we explore how CADDi’s innovations earned...
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Creating a More Competitive and Skilled Manufacturing Workforce
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In this episode, Shawn Dagley, Kahuna’s Director of Manufacturing, discusses how Kahuna’s data-driven approach to skills management enables leaders to understand their skills supply and demand to make informed staffing decisions in dynamic environments. Kahuna digitises, manages, and validates workforce skill, competencies, experiences, certifications in one to increase efficiencies, standardise training and development programs, close skills gaps, mitigate operational risks, increase safety, and guide strategic operating decisions with validated skills insights. From a manufacturing...
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NSI Mobile Water Solutions
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Pioneering the future of Process Analysis
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"Sensors are great, but they have their limitations" - that’s where analysers come in! In this episode, Paul Hamilton from Metrohm discusses simple and innovative ways for Process Engineers to perform complex chemical analysis. Metrohm is best known for producing analytical laboratory hardware and software, but Paul explains how the process analysis side of the business brings all of the typical laboratory analysis techniques and integrates them into the process plant, producing lab-quality data in the plant, fully automated. Compared to some other countries, the UK is behind when it comes...
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Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology
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For machines in the food industry, you need special solutions. Extreme temperatures, high mechanical loads, short cycle times, round-the-clock operation, and regular cleaning cycles require very robust components. Strict food safety regulations pose as much of a challenge here as efficiency and sustainability. Whether it’s for process automation in food production, for beverage production or the packaging industry, in all cases you need food-compatible rolling bearings, plain bearings, and linear guidance systems as well as adapted lubrication and seal concepts. Even during the planning...
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How interface measurement could transform your business
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In this episode of the PII Podcast, we delve into the world of interface level measurement, concentrating on those difficult multiphase applications with dynamic emulsion layers. The key to optimising performance in these situations is solving the emulsion factor – a hurdle that has long stood in the way of accurate and economical level detection. Traditionally, no single technology has been able to economically measure the total hydrocarbon level, the top of the emulsion (where water mixes into oil), and the bottom of the emulsion layer, (where oil mixes into water). This...
info_outlineIn this podcast, BinMaster’s Regional Vice President of Sales Mike Mossage shares how processing industries can benefit from cloud inventory, the use of continuous level sensors, and the application of Industry 4.0 in making bulk material management more efficient. For more than a decade, Mike has helped industrial manufacturers across diverse industries solve their most complex bulk inventory issues and make peoples’ jobs easier.