Ken’s Foods Partners with Rockwell Automation to Optimize End-of-Line Operations

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    "excerpt": "Sald dressing and sauce maker Ken’s Foods has tapped Rockwell Automation, Inc. to modernize its end-of-line operations, improving performance, reducing complexity and supporting continued growth. Legacy equipment, limited visibility and conveyor layouts that restrict material flow created inefficiencies across packaging and palletizing. Traditional cabinet-based automation architecture also slowed maintenance, requiring technicians to access remote panels to troubleshoot. Ken's Foods implemented an on-machine architecture with Rockwell Automation PowerFlex 350 variable frequency drives (VFDs) accessible directly on production equipment, simplifying operations and delivering measurable gains: \"We estimate an overall cost savings of 17% compared to designing, building centralized panels and wiring directly to local motor disconnects, I/O points and motors,\" says Kyle Richard, vice president of business development for Elm Electrical, an electrical partner of Ken's Foods. \"The on-machine VFDs also support a scalable safety system across a 130-drive palletizing line. A network-based safety architecture reduces wiring and panel costs and allows electronic stops to be placed where they are needed along the conveyors.\" Based on the results, Ken's Foods establishes on-machine architecture as the standard for future pallet-conveying systems. \"This approach helps us operate more...",
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