Ingredient handling - How automation increases efficiency
It is obvious that efficient ingredient handling is a critical success factor to manufacturers in the food, pharmaceutical, chemical or petrochemical industries. Many factors impact the production efficiency negatively, apparently downtimes and waste production being one of the major effects. But what about the level of automation, does it influence the efficiency? What is efficiency?
Efficiency is generally described as the ability of how good someone is able to do things. In the industrial world this means, how well a product can be produced while expenses, unnecessary effort and waste are kept to a minimum. On the other hand, automation in manufacturing is a technology to produce a product with very little human assistance.
What are levels of automation?
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