The greatest challenge of any business is remaining competitive among a sea of similar products. With the increased competition from worldwide manufacturing capabilities comes a greater need for plants and manufacturing centers to cut costs, increase quality, and improve production efficiency. To answer this need, Automation Zone, in Castalia, Ohio, began developing OEE solutions for customers who needed to track and monitor machine efficiency.

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Managing the many systems that make up a huge ecosystem of buildings is a challenging task. Luckily, as better tools are built and designed, any building automation project can be improved. Greater control of aspects of the system such as energy use, heating and cooling, HVAC systems, and even security leads to a more efficient building complex that can manage resources in the most cost effective way possible.

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The United States is a major exporter of food, particularly beef. Feedlots, like the Simplot Land and Livestock feedlot in Grandview, Idaho is where much of the livestock within the United States is finished for domestic use and export. At the feedlot, cattle and other livestock are brought up to the proper weight for slaughter. Weight based pricing formulas are generally used to determine the worth of livestock when they are sold from the lot, meaning that ensuring the health of the animals will help a feedlot keep acceptable profit margins.

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