Features International Sugar Journal
Industry 4.0: Vertical & horizontal data integration and management [Full subscriber]
Availability of data or the generation of data is in today’s sugar factories no problem at all. An ever-increasing pool of devices, systems and processes provides data that, in many cases, are never used for any other purpose than to show the system is working. And it does not stop in the factory itself. A truly integrated data management will involve the whole value chain from raw material to end-user. Or, in other words, “From Farm to Fork.” And, sure enough, most sugar producers have started a path into data generation in the agricultural part of the operation. However, I… Login to continue
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