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Shaping analytics

Useful and effective data analytics begin with matching the right tools to the right tasks

Oct. 3, 2025

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Prep to paint the analytics room

Oct. 3, 2025

To make fluffier Nestlé Quik and Ovaltine, the company’s plant in Waverly, Iowa, recently partnered with Aveva, and transferred production data to its Connect, Historian and Advanced Analytics services to predict quality parameters, recommend optimal setpoints, and subsequently save 10% on powder. This graph shows the accuracy of AI calculations trained to predict product density compared to actual density found in the company’s lab.

AI piles on new capabilities

Oct. 2, 2025

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Manage motors with models

Oct. 1, 2025

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Survey: Overcoming barriers to industrial data analytics

Sept. 29, 2025

After updating its 30-year-old control and I/O infrastructure from Opto 22 to its newer groov EPIC controllers, I/O channels and GRV-CSERI-4 serial modules, Varland Plating’s electroplating plant in Cincinnati, Ohio, developed homegrown historian software with Opto 22’s open-source-friendly REST API, visualizes and contextualizes data using Grafana’s open-source monitoring platform, and performs custom data collection with Ignition web-based SCADA software.

Hardware underpins digitalized data processing

Sept. 25, 2025

Figure 1: Ferroloy iron foundry in Wichita, Kan., worked with system integrator Artek Integrated Solutions to build and configure a server-based MySQL database; link it with Inductive Automation’s web-based Ignition SCADA software and Tag Historian module; establish a centralized repository for maximizing data collection and analytics; and identify trends and shift reports almost in real time. Ignition also helps the foundry secure data from its Hitachi and Heraeus equipment, connect with PLCs on its Sinto molding machines, and directly access its B&L Odyssey ERP system.

Iron foundry and system integrator make analytics more affordable

Sept. 23, 2025

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Tying together analytics locations, formats and functions

Sept. 22, 2025

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Phillips 66 digitalizes SIS management

July 2, 2025

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