Production/Operations Software
(42 companies)Manufacturing software and performance monitoring software that focuses on facility-wide operations, including software and systems for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), manufacturing operations management (MOM), manufacturing execution systems (MES), overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), predictive maintenance, simulation and modeling software, order fulfillment software, label track-and-trace software and related digital tools.
Antares Vision Group
Antares Vision North America provides a wide range of comprehensive track-and-trace solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, including hardware and software to meet any requirements of global regulatory compliance. Antares covers any pharmaceutical business across the supply chain, from manufacturing to logistics and verification operations, distribution and retail.
Autonics USA, Inc.
Autonics manufactures a wide range of sensors, controllers, and controls utilized across packaging, food and beverage, as well as medical equipment and pharmaceutical industries. Their products encompass I/O terminal blocks, safety products, light curtains, motion drives, networking components, switches, signals, software, and more. Autonics addresses the unique needs of the packaging industry by offering solutions such as vision sensors, color mark sensors, presence sensors, temperature controllers, and diverse corrosion-resistant products for applications ranging from bagging to labeling. Its diverse range of corrosion-resistant, durable products are used in food and beverage manufacturing, including raw ingredient processing, cleaning and sanitization, mass production, distribution, and more. Autonics controls are also used extensively to automate processes in the medical equipment and pharmaceutical industries.
B&R Industrial Automation
In addition to motion controls and process controls, B&R offers a ready-made software solution that helps OEMs implement pick-and-place applications faster. Not only does the system control the robot itself, it also handles coordination with other axes, conveyor belts or tracks. mapp Pick&Place grants the user maximum freedom to solve the requirements of their process using any number of delta, articulated arm or SCARA robots. The software also allows developers to automatically optimize their process in different ways. They can choose whether the movement profiles should prioritize shortest pick duration, first in first out, or energy-optimized movement. B&R is a single-source supplier of controls and robotics. Robots from its parent company, ABB, are fully integrated in the B&R automation system.
Beckhoff Automation
Product range covers industrial PCs, embedded PCs, PLCs, PACs, motherboards, HMI hardware and software, industrial displays, stainless steel industrial displays, I/O, machine mounted I/O, stainless steel I/O, fieldbus components, industrial Ethernet, networking solutions, machine safety equipment, programmable safety, switches, servo motors, stainless steel servo motors, servo drives, stepper motors, stepper drives, DC drives, gearboxes, stainless steel gearboxes, linear transport systems, stainless steel linear transport systems, planar motor systems, automation software, machine learnings software, machine vision software, cables, connectors and accessories.
Bihl+Wiedemann, Inc.
Bihl+Wiedemann specializes in the field of automation and safety technology with AS-Interface (ASi). Its complete ASi product portfolio covers master/gateways, modules/slaves, safety components, bus couplers/master simulators as well as in-house developed software. ASi-5 is the latest innovation stage of ASi, a globally standardized fieldbus system for the first automation level. ASi connects sensors and actuators with a controller via a single two-core flat cable. The yellow ASi cable transmits power and data at the same time.The proven main benefits of ASi are, among others, dramatically less wiring, free choice of topology and cost-efficient integration of safety on the same infrastructure. In addition, compared to other fieldbus systems, ASi needs no connectors for data and power integration.
COPA-DATA
Copa-Data supplies zenon food software platform for automation in the food, beverage and brewing industries. Designed to facilitate tasks such as food safety management, operational efficiency, energy cost management, the zenon software platform helps customers automate their industrial facilities and manage data more effectively. Software helps avoid faults and failures in food and beverage production lines, connects the building's systems for better oversight and control and ensures that quality standards are met.
Descon Integrated Conveyor Solutions
Descon offers specialty controls for conveyors including centralized motor, distribution motor, integrated electrical wireway, plug and play cable systems as well as software and documentation systems. Descon’s automation experts in the Electrical Controls Team are knowledgeable with equipment interfacing, integration between machine centers and clean software code. Descon is a Certified UL Builder.
Doran Scales, Inc.
Doran Scales, Inc. offers a suite of software of data collection and communication software used for a range of plant operation, data collection and communications applications in food processing and other industries. Doran ionSuite™ software is designed to lower costs, achieve plant-wide efficiencies and ensure employee accountability by helping customers maintain total control at every step of the production process — from formulation through packaging and traceability — to accurately project financial return on every batch. QC Weigh software captures quality control data from Doran 2200CW Checkweighers, so managers and operators can ensure accurate product weights and meet QC benchmarks – a level of precision control that is also vital for meeting regulatory requirements, third party food safety standards and quality control certification programs.
Edelflex
Edelflex designs and builds power distribution and control panels, software and components, plant control and safety systems, telemetry, as well as data integration to corporate applications, connectivity solutions and integrated data visualization.
Emerson Discrete Automation
Staying competitive requires industrial plant operators to harness data in real time and then move that data from the floor to an on- or off-premise cloud where it can be analyzed to identify improvements. ASCO's comprehensive suite of hardware, control software, and edge technology streamlines communication between OT, IT, the edge and the cloud. Emerson is an automation partner for leaders and equipment providers in many industries. From on-the-floor computing to plant-wide SCADA, Emerson can help customers operate efficiently, safely, and profitably.
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Epson America Inc.
Epson’s Label Boost software is designed to give shipping operations a way to easily add color and dynamic content for what would otherwise be black-and-white shipping labels. Label Boost software can help shipping operations—especially at healthcare brands—create secondary labels, such as regulatory or shipping-and-handling labels. It can also be used to highlight critical information, such as parcel count or expedited shipping for accuracy and timeliness of delivery. Other applications for the software could be coupons, targeted ads and secondary labels. Adding such dynamic content to shipping labels helps users create new opportunities for their businesses to leverage shipping labels for marketing, while reducing material and labor costs and streamlining operations.
Festo Corporation
In the everyday factory environment, industrial automation technology is utilized for joining, rotating, gripping, positioning, connecting, holding, testing, and checking individual parts, modules, or complete products. Festo's industrial automation controls portfolio is designed to perform all of these tasks. Festo's main product groups include electric, pneumatic, and servo pneumatic actuators; pneumatic valves and valve manifolds; devices for compressed air treatment and vacuum technology; pneumatic grippers and industrial robots; servo motors and drives; sensors and image processing systems; controllers and software. Festo products are used across a broad spectrum of industrial segments, including food processing and industrial packaging.
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H2OK Innovations
H2Ok Innovations is an IoT-enabled analytics platform providing data driven optimization of industrial liquid systems for manufacturing and data centers. A comprehensive IoT sensor system and analytics platform helping manufacturing optimize industrial liquid and fluid systems through advanced intelligence. Products include Industry 4.0 H2Ok Sensors as well as H2Ok Edge Gateway and H2Ok Insights software. Modular suite means liquid and fluid processors can configure the entire platform or combinations of components within the system to best meet their needs. The company's website states the technology aims to help facilities in “unlocking previously untapped data to provide you a competitive advantage in the way you run your plant or data center– reducing your operating and resource costs while improving operational efficiency.”
Heat and Control, Inc.
Heat and Control has created the next generation of smart controls with the look and feel of a modern app. Plant personnel become experts thanks to situational awareness themes, advisory notifications, and real-time vitals that transform ROI. i-Fort production monitoring and data management systems are designed to improve production efficiency with centralized management that collects data from all Ishida machinery and devices in your production line. Programmable Logic Control (PLC) systems give customers control of multiple machines and process functions, with pre-programmed product menus and complete data management at the touch of a single display screen.
Honeywell Intelligrated
While nothing is predictable in today’s ever-changing distribution centers (DCs), modern automation solutions are capable of taking on nearly any warehouse task. Honeywell Intelligrated designs and engineers systems that are designed to deliver the optimal combination of automation and human resources at every critical point in the workflow. Honeywell Intelligrated combines advanced material handling solutions with smart software to reduce the time, labor costs associated with inbound processing.
KEB America
KEB offers a full suite of automation products that are used by a wide variety of machine builders. This includes machine motion controllers, remote access and data analytics, HMIs, drives, and motors.
Kollmorgen Corporation
Kollmorgen supplies motors, drives and automation platforms to the food and beverage, packaging and converting, pharmaceutical, robotics and smart warehouse industries. The Kollmorgen Automation Suite (KAS) is marketed as including “all the software and hardware needed to bring truly differentiated, high-performance machines to market faster.” Kollmorgen reports that KAS has been proven to measurably accelerate development, increase throughput, minimize scrap and maximize overall equipment effectiveness. Other offerings include IP69K-rated 316L stainless steel AKMH servo motors, which feature a hygienic design for food and beverage machines. Cartridge DDR® motors provide the performance advantages of a frameless, direct-drive motor for precise, compliance-free web control during form/fill/seal applications.
Lenord, Bauer & Co. Gmbh
i³SAAC is Lenord + Bauer’s Industry 4.0 tool. Standing for integrated, intelligent and interactive sensors as well as autonomous actuators and controllers, i³SAAC helps users seeking to harness Industry 4.0 using sensor- and actuator-based system intelligence. Leonard + Bauer’s robust speed, vibration and temperature sensors provide clients with reliable information about system status. This allows them to detect disruptions early and avoid unplanned outages. Use CombiCODER and record speed, temperature and acceleration in a pick-up encoder. Other products include the MiniCODER, claimed to be “the world's most frequently used speed sensors in high-speed spindles of machine tools,” designed for high measuring accuracy and compact design configurations. Leonard + Bauer also supplies controllers and rotary encoders.
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Lenze Americas
With over 75 years of corporate history and more than 4,000 employees in more than 45 countries, Lenze has developed into a globally leading automation company for mechanical engineering. Lenze Americas draws on its solution expertise as a systems provider of controllers, inverters, geared motors, motors, gear boxes and more. It develops with and for its customers high-quality mechatronic products, powerful systems consisting of hardware and software for successful automation and digitalization services in areas such as big data management, cloud and mobile solutions, as well as software to shape the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Mingo Smart Factory
Mingo Smart Factory's easy to use Manufacturing Productivity Platform software is designed to provide real-time visibility on the factory floor, improve on-time delivery, and increase revenue and profitability of manufacturing companies by replacing spreadsheet, paper, and manual reporting.
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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
The Mitsubishi Electric product range encompasses a comprehensive suite of industrial automation solutions and software. Featured products highlighted on Mitsubishi Electric’s online product catalog include programmable controllers, motion controllers, and computerized numerical controllers (CNCs). Mitsubishi Electric also offers a comprehensive line of drive products and solutions such as AC servos and inverters, visualization products like Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs), SCADA and 3D simulators, and more. Other products highlighted in the Mitsubishi Electric catalog online are low-voltage circuit breakers, contactors, motor starters as well as power monitoring products, power management meters, energy saving supporting devices, and more.
Multivac Inc.
Multivac’s Smart Services and Pack Pilot digital solutions are designed for monitoring, controlling and optimizing production and can be networked across all locations to facilitate comparison. Smart Services are for new equipment as well as retrofitting to existing machines, so no large start-up investment is required. Package includes Smart Production Dashboard, providing production figurtes at a glance at any time and from anywhere, the SMART OEE Analyzer for data-driven efficiency analysis and the Smart Log Analyzer that can inform what the most frequently occurring faults and causes of downtime are. Other tools and dashboards include the MULTIVAC Pack Pilot, which facilitates parameterizing fully optimized recipes with just a few clicks.
Omron Automation Americas
Omron Industrial Automation supplies an extensive range of controls, software and automation components including PLC and MAC controllers, machine safety solutions, motion controls, motors, sensors, networking solutions, remote IO, IPC, and HMI technology. Highlighted control systems from Omron include its line of machine controllers, which offer synchronous control of all machine devices and advanced functionality such as motion, robotics and database connectivity. The fully integrated Sysmac automation platform is a multidisciplinary concept that allows users to simplify solution architecture, reduce programming and optimize productivity while harnessing complete control and management in the automation plant.
ONExia Inc.
Specializing in turn-key automation, ONExia offers custom software solutions designed to enable end-users the ability to operate end-of-line packaging robots with no programming needed. Software covers machine-to-machine communications, data collection/database interaction and remote access services. ONExia’s palletizing software is drag-and-drop and is designed to have robots palletizing within minutes.
Optel Vision
Optel Group offers numerous digital tools, platforms and operations software for solutions ranging from aggregation and anti-counterfeiting to inventory geotracking, supply chain security, serialization, traceability, and operational performance for pharmaceutical, food and beverage and numerous other industries. Featured platforms include OPTEL’s Intelligent Supply Chain, which provides various traceability solutions to optimize performance, such as reverse logistics and reusable packaging management, improved visibility on distribution channels and real-time location of inventory.
Redzone Production Systems
The Redzone Production System is a verticalized social mobile platform for industry designed for front line team collaboration to radically change operating performance within the four walls of the manufacturing plant. Highly visual platform helps create the environment for front line teams to resolve issues on the plant floor to keep production running.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation’s flagship Allen-Bradley® and Rockwell Software® product brands offer a vast array of automation, manufacturing, safety products, automation systems and drives. Featured hardware includes the 450L GuardShield™ PAC Safety Light Curtains to protect personnel from hazardous machinery that use whole-body detection and are typically positioned around an area or in front of a machine process entry or exit area. Model 42EA RightSight™ S18 and 42EF RightSight M18 photoelectric sensors feature a wide range of sensing modes and are ideal for general purpose and cost-sensitive applications in material handling, packaging and other industries. The Allen‑Bradley ASEM™ 6300 is a complete portfolio of open architecture industrial PCs, thin clients and monitors used in food and beverage and other facilities that require a high-performance Human Machine Interface (HMI) solution for industrial environments. Portfolio integrates completely with Rockwell’s FactoryTalk® View SE and FactoryTalk View ME software, allowing for seamless assimilation within the facility.
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Scott Automation
Scott Automation supplies the Maestro+ software solution to boost the overall performance for automated production or warehouse applications. It is "web-based, efficient, low cost, user friendly, multilingual and fully modular," reports co. The software consists of a core system, which is the heart of the system that manages and exchanges all master data with other systems, including ERP, SCM, MES, and PLC. In addition, various modules are available that can be connected to the core system independently of each other. These modules make it possible to develop a customized Maestro+ total package. Only buy what is needed at the time of the integration, without impeding future adjustments or organizational growth considerations. Benefits include: better real-time overview, a reduction of operator handling time, minimized paperwork, and reduction of mispicks. The Maestro+ module can be used to control automated palletizing systems from Alvey/Scott or another provider, as well as warehouse control systems for conveyors, automatic storage and retrieval systems, order preparation tools, AGVs and more.
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SEW Eurodrive, Inc.
SEW Eurodrive provides a wide range of control solutions for the beverage industry. Online product catalog features a vast number of control and drive products, such as gear motors, servo drives, controller hardware and software and much more. Modular drive components, predefined solutions in the MAXOLUTION® drive packages, and customized MAXOLUTION® system solutions, are designed for the beverage industry. To meet the dynamics, precision, continuity requirements required of packaging machines in the food and consumer goods industry, SEW Eurodrive engineers drives and controls that resolve repetitive tasks such as filling, closing, palletizing, and transporting.
Siemens Digital Industries
Siemens Digital Industries supplies industrial controls and control panels used in packaging applications designed for faster time-to-market with scalable, modular solutions. Modular solutions from the Digital Enterprise solution portfolio combined with easy-to-integrate standard applications from Siemens for the packaging industry reduce the time to market and boost plant availability – with efficient engineering and less complexity.
SMB Machinery Systems LLC
SMB Machinery Systems' specialties include line redesign and remediation, as well as line removal, relocation and reinstallation. We have successfully completed production line automation and integration projects for some of the largest soft drink makers, automobile manufacturers, beer &wine producers, pulp & paper, aggregate and poultry processors around the globe.
Specright
Specright's specification document management (SDM) software facilitates easy and effective to layering of the right workflows, approvals, and processes in the plant. Specright's specification soft helps manage packaging or product sub-assembly data, formulas and ingredients, labels and document management, bill of materials management and much more. Software also enables customers to achieve outcomes ranging from improved supplier collaboration, sustainability, and consolidating SKUs.
STOCK America, Inc.
STOCK’s ICON SMS (Sterilization Management System) is a state of the art SCADA (Supervisory Control AND Data Acquisition) Retort Controls system for general method thermal processing, control and monitoring. STOCK’s Retort Controls system was accepted by FDA and approved by the USDA in 1994 for automatic, real time, deviation compensation/optimization and computer generated batch records in lieu of manual operator logs.
Superior Product Handling Solutions, Inc.
Company’s Factrac product line offers easy-to-implement and economical production and operations IIot counters, timers, OEE, customizable metric monitors, displays, data collection, dashboards, real-time production event notifications, and real-time viewing of production operations status from the floor, at a desk, or remotely by phone or tablet.
TM Process & Controls, Inc.
TM Process & Controls offers services including controls and integration design, network and server design, cybersecurity, panel upgrades, PLC upgrades, automation solutions, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Enterprise Resource Planning and Manufacturing Execution Systems.
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Total ETO
Total ETO claims its software "is the only ERP/ MRP system that matches the unique workflow of Engineer To Order manufacturers." Designed for OEMs, Total ETO software solves the common problems Custom Machine Builders face, so they can increase accuracy, efficiency, and profitability. "Engineers love our Dynamic BOMs that integrate with CAD systems including SolidWorks and Inventor," Total ETO says. Spreadsheets and double entry are eliminated, so designers can spend more time designing.
Van Doren Sales Inc.
Van Doren Sales offers industrial automation solutions including software and control systems specifically designed for its customers in the produce processing industry. VDS O.N.E. is a software solution for packing production floor operations. Detailed system integrates with most ERP and WMS systems for added utility and visibility for customers. Van Doren’s Expert PLC and HMI/SCADA graphical programmers develop and maintain machine and plant wide control systems to meet and exceed all needs and requirements.
Videojet Technologies Inc.
Videojet offers an end-to-end, production-floor suite of hardware, software and services for track and trace applications. Videojet’s coding and serialization solutions cover a wide range of applications. IMprints™ traceability solutions help packagers meet regulations and protect against threats such as counterfeiting and product diversion while being well prepared in the event of a recall. In addition, the Videojet IMprints AI21™ Pharmaceutical Serialization Platform is designed as a simple and flexible packaging line serialization and data management solution for DSCSA compliance.
Vorne Industries
XL is a standalone device designed to connect to sensors and scanners in a network for real-time production monitoring of virtually any industrial process. XL includes I/O to communicate with processes, a scoreboard for operators, and built-in reporting for managers. Designed to seamlessly scale from machine to enterprise, XL offers additional benefits including: no software to install, no servers to maintain and no recurring fees.
Wago Corporation
WAGO’s automation technology is versatile and is designed to offers open standards and simplify the production process. WAGO's extensive portfolio of automation technology controls and tools include software, HMI devices and control technology. WAGO is also sought after for its fieldbus-independent I/O systems, switches, and sensor/actuator boxes.
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Weidmuller, USA
Weidmuller supplies a full catalog of automation and software controls and tools including: PLC controls for small, large, and networked control applications; industrial PCs; I/O systems; industrial Ethernet solutions; touch panels for intuitive visualization and operation of HMI applications; engineering software; measuring and monitoring systems; u-link remote access service; automated machine learning models; and more. Weidmüller’s Industrial IoT sensors enable recording crucial data on mechanical and electrical variables from both existing and new equipment. Data acquisition is seamlessly integrated into an end-to-end system solution, aligning with Weidmüller's u-sense product family as a component of their comprehensive and interoperable Industrial IoT solution portfolio.
Wipotec
User-friendly software components from WIPOTEC-OCS include Comscale4, a flexible, web-based, customizable quality data management system that can connect any number of checkweighers and other inspection machines (x-ray scanner, metal detectors) to separate selectable sites. Comscale4 provides an overview of the entire production line in real time, allowing users to retrieve all available data, generate statistics, take important actions, and share data with partners throughout the enterprise. In addition, WIPOTEC-OCS offers serialization and aggregation solutions, marketed through the TQS (Traceable Quality System) brand, to meet the track-and-trace needs of pharmaceutical manufacturers in numerous existing and emerging global serialization applications.
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