Flexibility
Making processes more flexible, systemizing product quality, responding faster to new market trends – the drinks industry has much more to do in this day and age than merely quenching our thirst. On the one hand there is a need to establish and maintain a broad product spectrum and introduce new products in order to generate new demand, while on the other, legislation is increasingly demanding greater transparency of manufacturing processes.
Megatrend: Hybrid automation
It’s a fact that production and process automation have become inseparable in almost all manufacturing environment. Hybrid automation represents the convergence of production and process automation which is more than logical, given the trend towards convergence of the two automation techniques in the so-called hybrid industries.