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The fast-food industry is rapidly evolving as customers increasingly embrace delivery and takeout options over dining inside restaurants. To meet these changing demands, the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) of the future is likely to become an automated kitchen. This shift towards automation, driven by the concept of the “digital kitchen,” aims to enhance efficiency and […]

With the continuous evolution of technology, customers are seeking more efficient and cost-effective solutions to install and maintain their equipment on location. The role of third-party service providers in delivering high-quality field service is becoming increasingly important.  In the Service Intel podcast “ABB: The rise of third-party service teams,” Salvador Accardo, VP of Services at […]

With dramatic increases in gas prices and growing concerns about global warming, companiesare searching for ways to reduce transportation energy costs while maintaining a sustainableenvironment. Recent advances in technology allow companies to bypass fueling at the pump andinstead use a more environmentally friendly fuel known as biodiesel.Biodiesel fuels can be sourced through closed-loop oil management […]

ServiceFlex has been working with a variety of companies who are leading the way toward aclosed loop economy. The goal is to insure we increase the reusability of as many produceditems as possible. This can range from capturing PET plastic bottles to convert them back intofuture beverage containers to collecting spent cooking oil that can […]

Reverse vending has proven to be a highly productive means for collecting post-consumer recyclables in states that have container redemption legislation.  The so-called “bottle bill states” are a small part of the overall national supply of post-consumerwaste.   As CPG companies press forward to increase the recycled plastic (rPET)content of their single-use container sales, access to […]

Edge computing helps retail and restaurant managers optimize their day-to-day operations by quicklydelivering insights that workers use to complete their job duties as efficiently as possible. When afrequent customer places an order, the edge computing system gathers relevant data from the cloudand processes it locally to make better decisions. Recognizing customer behaviors like a frequent […]

Edge computing and IoT are two essential parts of any business that analyzes data at ahigh rate. Edge computing allows devices, that would have relied on the cloud, toprocess data on their own. Allowing edge computing to process data solely improves amultitude of factors. For example, edge computing improves latency – or the time takento […]

IOT smart devices have been introduced to industrial systems to track and improve business decisions through data-driven insights. In the next few years, we will be connected in ways that are deemed impossible today. However, with the rise in popularity in IOT smart devices some are concerned with the cybersecurity of their valuable statistics. To […]

Oceans and streams have continued to be polluted by various bottles, this has resulted in a new wave of recycling trends. One of the most effective is reverse vending machines (RVM). An RVM is a device that takes empty and used bottles or cans, compresses them, and returns an incentive to the recycler. RVM’s can […]