How GE Digital is Using AI, IoT to Upgrade Drink Packaging
However, SIG, one of the world’s largest providers of packaging systems for the food and beverage industry, is always thinking about this process and how to make it better and more efficient. So is its chief software analytics provider, GE Digital, which deploys its Predix internet of things software platform to optimize the carton maker’s manufacturing process across 400 factories in 65 countries.
In case you were wondering, SIG, headquartered in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, stands for Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (that’s German for Swiss Industrial Company). Frankly, SIG is a lot easier to remember.
Most of us don’t think about what has happened behind the scenes to prepare our container of milk or fruit juice as it cools us down on a warm summer day. Literally billions of drink cartons each year are cut, printed, assembled, filled and sealed in assembly lines before you pick up the one that was destined to be yours.