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Spend enough time walking an automotive plant, past the robots, the torque tools, the AGVs and AMRs gliding through their routes, and you start to see it. A pattern forming. A steady rhythm behind the work. You develop an instinct for what good looks, sounds, and feels like. You can sense when operations are flowing and just as quickly, recognize when something is off. A line slows. A station backs up. Another “why is this down again, running slow again, blocked or starved again?” moment appears. Behind every bottleneck and missed rate, sits a deeper truth.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. has recently announced that Country Maid, a longstanding baked goods manufacturer known for its original Butter Braid Pastry, has selected Plex Production Monitoring as part of its digital transformation strategy to improve production visibility, standardize operational reporting and support continuous improvement initiatives across its manufacturing operations. The implementation is being supported by Interstates, a Rockwell Automation Platinum System Integrator, and Van Meter, an electrical, automation and technology solutions provider.

Mining operations run on power. Across crushing, conveying, hoisting, pumping, ventilation and mineral processing, electrical infrastructure keeps production moving and helps connect the assets, systems and people that make safe, efficient operations possible. But the same electrical systems that support higher productivity also introduce risk, especially in environments shaped by dust, moisture, vibration, remote locations, confined spaces and constant pressure to maximize uptime.