Videos

MES Enablement optimizes, standardizes and removes the guess work from data collection for MES applications such as OEE, SPC and Track and Trace. Learn how critical MES Enablement is in one’s factory by watching a short clip.

Make your MES Applications Efficient and Effective via MES Enablement

Matt Ruth, President and CEO at Avanceon, discusses how data analytics and machine learning can be applied on the plant floor to the benefit of OT personnel.

Video Interview: Data Analytics and Machine Learning on the Plant Floor

Control Engineering web content manager Chris Vavra interviews Brian Fenn, COO of Avanceon, a CFE Media and Technology content partner, who goes over PID control loop turning by providing specific examples from a food and beverage client looking to improve their facility’s operations.

PID control loop tuning advice: Expert interview series, Brian Fenn, Avanceon

Not entirely sure if Digital Transformation (DX) would benefit your company? Get the key points from this short video that further explains DX.

Considering Digital Transformation for Your Plant?

Many integrators forget what the goal is. Far too often, they become fixated on self-centered needs and lose sight of the customer’s focus. The customer’s success quickly becomes an afterthought and that’s no way to run a service business. At Avanceon we commit to focusing on and emphasizing the personal success of the customer. We drive to elevate every person we interact with to their highest p

Elevating You

Projects are hard work. If a manufacturer wants to be successful in implementing a project, it requires a special attention to detail of their organization, clear communication, change management plans and commitment to organizational adoption. This process cannot be done alone, it requires a team of dedicated individuals. It’s critical to have a partner you can identify with and trust to help car

We Are In It With You

At Avanceon, we understand how important your needs are and we translate them effectively to set a project or service up for success. Our wealth of experience and knowledge of the necessary innovations are evident in our translation vehicles of specifications, design studies, ROI reports, readiness reviews, resource analysis and obsolescence planning. We ensure that we capture your needs and defin

Translating Your Needs

Since 1984, Avanceon has been providing innovative solutions that cover the entire OT stack. We have built on our foundations of electrical and controls systems, through countless SCADA, Historian and MES implementations to now embrace the endless possibilities of I4.0 and Analytics. From those early days, we have been committed to adding value to our customers in every aspect of system lifecycle

Avanceon: Who We Are

It’s unrealistic to believe that your other dated manufacturing equipment will last forever. Your company needs to be prepared for the day when it’s time to upgrade before it’s too late. Equipment becomes obsolete and there’s no reason to get bent out of shape about it, if you prepare and budget correctly. There are six simple steps to an obsolescence project in order to prevent catastrophic probl

Six Steps Towards Eliminating Obsolete Controls Equipment: OT System Upgrade Project Tips

A self-service data model leveraging readily available Microsoft tools can deliver useful information without having to get bogged down in a lot of complexity. This approach opens new doors and unlocks value from the large amount of data that exists in every manufacturing facility.

How to get the most out of your Plant Data

Innovation. It’s a necessity for success. But unfortunately, many manufacturers (particularly smaller to mid-size ones) lack the resources and expertise to dedicate to innovation. Here is a look at how pursuing the right partners, from systems integrators to local economic development organizations can help many manufacturers maintain a competitive edge.

Manufacturing Innovation – How do you get it if you are a small to mid-sized manufacturer?

In this video we show a fresh perspective on training methods to address the challenges manufacturers face recruiting, developing and maintaining a skilled pipeline of talent.

Technical People Development Strategy 101

What’s the one asset that most manufacturers have not yet optimized? The answer may surprise you – their own data. In this video we take a look at the huge opportunity being missed by many manufacturers to improve reliability, quality and efficiency.

Manufacturing Data: Getting Value out of Your Data

At Avanceon we promise to help everyone that works with us as a customer, collaborates with us as a partner, or joins our team to achieve Rock Star status. Simply put, if we engage, our promise to you is that we will “work together to elevate you to the solution-delivering Rock Star you are meant to be.” Here is another example of how we were more than just vendor.

Training Rock Star Moment #1: Avanceon the Trusted Advisor

Whether through our Automation as a Service offering or our 24×7 Emergency Support Services, we have the resources to keep your facility up and running. Here are some examples where we were able to help our customers.

Emergency Support Scenarios & Examples: Getting by with a little help from your friends

From toothpaste to batteries, to the water you use and drink, for over 3 decades, Avanceon has been providing innovative services and solutions that affect nearly everything you do on a day-to day basis. Learn more about how Avanceon impacts your life in this video.

The Avanceon Impact

It takes more than engineering acumen to become a Rock Star and trusted advisor. For example, our validation depth recently helped us take major pressure off one of our customers. They faced overwhelming regulatory documentation requirements for a new product – requirements that were so complex and confusing they would significantly delay product rollout – perhaps even prevent it entirely. But our

Validation Rock Star Moment #1: Avanceon, the Red Tape Slayers

Getting good ideas and projects started in a bandwidth constrained world.

Assessments – Thinking outside the box

Solving mysterious electrical problems takes discipline, structure and a lot of experience.
One of the most frustrating electrical problems to solve, is when equipment behaves erratically or repeatedly fails for no apparent reason. Such was the case for one of our customers. After a year’s long struggle with electrical issues, find out how the Avanceon team solved the mysterious ghost-like probl

Solving the Unknowns of Electrical Systems

For over 30 years, we’ve been solving problems and developing innovative solutions for our customers. In that time, we’ve run into and solved many interesting technical challenges. In this video, Principal Engineer Nicholas Imfeld, focuses on system platform optimization and what you can do to achieve better performance.

Tech Tips: System Platform Optimization

Learn how MES can successfully help your company take small steps towards understanding your plant’s key areas and indicators to help tackle big issues.

Feature Blog Video: MES – Eating the Elephant

The Water industry as a whole is in a unique state as they are squarely in the center of the issues with America’s aging infrastructure, aging workforce and regulatory pressures. They are saddled with the challenge of regulations, 100% uptime and perfect quality all the while managing a tight budget and financial position. At Avanceon we focus on solving the challenges and providing our unique v

Expertise: Avanceon Water Solutions

What are the biggest challenges facing the CPG industry today? Well, we’d say there are five of them. And Avanceon has the skills and experience to help you address them.

Expertise: Avanceon Consumer Packaged Goods Solutions

MES is not just for one group of people. Personnel at all levels of the plant can greatly benefit from this technology. MES allows operations to be streamlined and provides key data to management, increasing production efficiency.

Case Study: Benefits of a Manufacturing Execution System

Recent innovations in CIP technology allow manufacturers to save money and reduce waste while still conforming to food safety and product quality standards. Learn how Avanceon was able to develop a custom solution to modify an existing CIP system and how our customer has benefitted from greater flexibility and cost savings.

Modifying Existing CIP Systems

We knew we had to get the job done over the four-day holiday weekend. That’s all the time the customer had to give us to replace hardware, do new IO and complete the process checkouts and establish production support. Not only that, we were installing an upgrade complex legacy PLC program that no one was familiar with. So what did we do? We set up an around-the-clock schedule, learned what was nec

Automation Rock Star Moment #1: PLC Upgrades – Our idea of a holiday is seeing you celebrate

When you can trust your systems integrator to do more than what’s expected – when that integrator is dedicated to working with you in a real partnership – then you have a relationship that truly adds value to a project. That’s how Avanceon does business: learn more in this video from one of our customers.

Providing Value through Partnerships