Ya YA Foods doesn't sell any of its own brands, but almost all of the big beverage brands in Canada and the US have their products bottled there. [ + ]

A district heating plant in Germany needed to upgrade 20-year-old emission monitoring to meet current legal requirements. [ + ]

In today's factories sensors often trigger an alarm as soon as equipment begins to exhibit suspicious behaviour, but rarely is this sensor data fully exploited. [ + ]

Despite high safety standards in the dairy industry, traces of impurities, pesticides and antibiotics can find their way into milk. [ + ]

A chemical plant in Japan has utilised wireless pressure gauges to prevent toxic gas releases from its wastewater treatment process. [ + ]

Nestlé recently installed a safe and easy-to-use cobotic palletising solution from Sidel at its site in Orbe (Switzerland). [ + ]

A US manufacturer of soups and sauces has cut the time it takes to chill one of its core products by a third with a cooling system from HRS Heat Exchangers. [ + ]

Communication failures caused by cable faults in a stacker robot were solved with a wireless fieldbus system. [ + ]

The high-performance adhesive DESMOCOLL is synthesised in a continuous process under potentially explosive conditions. [ + ]

Rabar, a leading supplier and manufacturer of commodities and premixes for the animal feed industry, has improved production by 25% with new automation technology. [ + ]

Automation reduces costs and improves safety for unconventional natural gas production in the Permian Basin. [ + ]

Robot welder for hire solves skilled welder shortage issues. [ + ]

Tasmania's Old Kempton Distillery has used the HID Global IoT platform with AusNFC tags to combat counterfeiting of its whiskies and other liquor products. [ + ]

Researchers have now made it possible to design industrial processes in small and medium-sized businesses to be demand-responsive. [ + ]

Fraunhofer researchers develop technology to bolster wastewater protection efforts. [ + ]