Controls Engineering & IoT

Video highlights the use of mobile technology, connectivity and real-time data in the tissue converting company’s plant-floor operations Samsung has featured South Florida Tissue Paper Co.’s manufacturing facility in Miami Gardens, Florida, in a commercial highlighting the use of mobile technology in plant-floor operations. The video shows employees working around tissue converting equipment while using…

Built in partnership with Xenet AI, the software enhances the ability to monitor performance in real time McDonald’s is set to trail a new hospitality tech supplier’s platform designed to aid in predictive maintenance and operational intelligence analysis, aiming to reduce beverage machine failures across its estate. Telemetry said its technology enables operators to prevent…

72% of manufacturers are boosting tech budgets, but skills gaps cause 78% of their obstacles. Fluke’s Vineet Thuvara on closing the readiness gap in food manufacturing. Manufacturers are spending like the future is already here. A recent Fluke Corporation survey found 72% of organizations plan to sink 16% to 30% of their maintenance budgets into…

Restaurant operators rarely have two days that look alike. New challenges emerge constantly, and keeping up means making dozens of decisions with limited time and incomplete information: Why did food costs spike at one location? Which limited-time offer actually drove profits? Why is one store consistently outperforming another? Finding those answers often means digging through…

Seven affordable AI-powered technologies can help independent quick-service restaurants improve efficiency, control costs, and compete with larger chains. The quick-service restaurant industry is not the same as it once was, and businesses need to keep up if they want to remain competitive. Customer expectations are forever changing as people seek convenience at a reasonable price.…

AI offers the opportunity to close the loop between what corporate plans and what guests actually encounter. The most difficult stretches of each year for QSRs are peak traffic seasons—summer break, back-to-school, the holidays at the end of the year. Guests show up en masse while corporate pushes new, limited-time offers. The stress put on…

The food and beverage industry is undergoing significant transformation. Consumer expectations are changing rapidly, retailers are carrying more product variations than ever before and distribution networks are being challenged to move products faster, more accurately and with greater flexibility. As SKU counts rise and retailers require more frequent deliveries, manufacturers and distributors face increasing pressure…

Boxed Water Is Better recently opened its Holland, Michigan, facility to a room of food, beverage and CPG manufacturers for a panel on automated palletizing. Attendees came from across West Michigan and the Midwest, representing companies ranging from fruit storage and canning operations to chemical manufacturers and co-packers. They came with the same questions most…

The service will not need special packaging and can be adopted by restaurants without “costly infrastructure” changes. onder has joined forces with autonomous delivery company Zipline to roll out on-demand drone food deliveries in Texas, the US. The service is scheduled to begin in January 2027. The move comes ahead of Wonder’s planned Texas expansion…

Something is shifting beneath the surface of the restaurant industry, and the numbers are starting to show it. Nearly half (45 percent) of U.S. diners switched their favorite restaurant last year, up sharply from 33 percent the year prior. That data point should be setting off alarms for restaurant operators. Instead, most are doubling down…