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E Tech Group Employees Earn PI Certification

E Tech Group is proud to announce that two members of our team have recently earned the PI System Infrastructure Specialist certification from OSIsoft. This certification demonstrates their expertise in PI System architecture, data management, and best practices for leveraging real-time data to improve industrial operations. E Tech Group’s PI System Expertise Grows Congratulations to our Principal Engineer, Matt Martin, and Senior Project Manager, Tony O’Deay, on earning their PI System Infrastructure Specialist certifications. To complete the PI System Infrastructure Specialist certification, an individual must have one year of experience configuring the PI system, complete a set of training modules, and pass a 50-question final exam. The certifications show our company has trained and is experienced with the PI System. E Tech Group is committed to providing expert service and support for the PI system. Achieving PI System Infrastructure Specialist certification reflects E Tech Group’s ongoing commitment to professional development and delivering cutting-edge industrial automation solutions. With this expertise, our engineers are better equipped to help clients maximize the value of their PI Systems — enhancing data visibility, operational efficiency, and decision-making. Thank you, Matt and Tony, for pushing yourselves and sharing this expertise to E Tech Group and our clients!

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Development of Batch Pasteurizer System Supports Long-standing Tea and Juice Production for Global Drink Manufacturer

A global drink manufacturing leader needed support setting up a new production line that included batching, pasteurizing, and bottling capabilities with a dedicated Clean-In-Place (CIP) system. E Tech Group was engaged to support the development of a new juice and tea production system at one of the customer’s large production facilities in North America.

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Join us at Automate 2022

We’re excited to announce we will be exhibiting at Automate 2022 with our partners at Apera AI. We hope you’ll SWING by at booth #4113 to see our ABB cobot TEEing up a golf-related demonstration utilizing the latest in adaptive 4D vision technology.  You wont want to miss out! Event Highlights  Automate is a leading event for industrial automation, robotics, and smart manufacturing technologies. Attendees can experience hands-on demos, attend technical sessions, and connect with industry leaders.  Key Takeaways from Automate 2022 Even though the event is over, Automate 2022 provided valuable insights into the latest trends in industrial automation. Key takeaways included:

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E Tech Group Webcast: What is Just Enough Industrial Data Analysis?

E Tech Group’s Vice President of Business Development, Laurie Cavanaugh was a presenter for this Control Engineering webcast, where she and Matt Ruth, President of Avanceon, discuss what “just enough data analysis” is, pros and pitfalls, and the future of data analysis in automated manufacturing. The webcast included live Q&As from the audience, and was followed up with an article offering even more answers to automation professionals’ questions about data analytics in their plant processes. Just-in-time supply chain strategy limits have been exposed in recent years. Is just-enough industrial data analysis working for operations? Is the right data getting to the right people to optimize operations in time? Where are the bottlenecks, and how are they being addressed? Where’s data going to become information, and who’s seeing it? In the cloud or on-premises or both? Are your knowledge brokers seeing the right information quickly enough to make the right decisions, or are your analytics too much, too late to be effective? Utilizing case studies as illustrations and an interactive format, Cavanaugh and Ruth advise control system integrators on how to: This presentation focused on the future of data analytics in industrial manufacturing, including obstacles control engineers need to overcome in order to move forward in the industry and embrace the new role data analysis will take in the field. Visit E Tech Group’s blog for more automation industry news and insights.

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Food & Beverage Automation Companies: Are You Ready for the Cultivated Meat Movement?

Automation is the lynchpin of our food and beverage production. It’s what allows consumable products to be manufactured with quality and safety in a mass produced, mass distributed context. To some extent, the control system solutions required in the food and beverage industry are well-worn. But with the emergence of cultivated meat, automation system integrators are presented with new requirements for their control system builds. Cultivated meat facilities require a creative approach to automation that integrates ideas from biologics, pharmaceuticals, continuous batch processes, and stringent compliance standards from several agencies. Integrators and cultivated meat startups alike will have to address this new frontier of automation together to make these eco-friendly, ethical meats the mainstream approach to protein they should be.