MILFORD, Ind., U.S.A., August 21, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was at CTB, Inc., taking part in an Indiana agriculture and manufacturing town hall meeting at the Milford, Indiana-based company on August 21.

Version 10.17 is now available for customers wishing to upgrade. Please review the release notes below for an overview of new functions:

In the following article, Jesús Membreño (poultry group MES lead at Cargill) shares his knowledge gained during a multi-site implementation of the CAT2 MES (Manufacturing Execution System) for Cargill Central America. The implementation included integration into plant-floor hardware as well as the company’s ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning) to maximize data management capabilities by harnessing the power of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things). By using the multi-plant benchmarking process, Cargill creates meaningful, shareable knowledge from many terabytes of data.

Three food-industry leaders have organized a team to participate in the Put Foot Rally across southern Africa. The event raises money to provide underprivileged African school children with a pair of shoes. For many, it will be the first pair of shoes they’ve ever owned. The team is made up of three Americans:

One of the hot topics at February's annual meeting of the National Turkey Federation (NTF) was the Turkey Demand Project. In 2015, U.S. consumption of turkey was 16.0 pounds per person. NTF’s goal is to increase per-person turkey consumption to 20 pounds by 2020.

Peco Foods Inc., Tuscaloosa, Ala., is a privately-held, family-managed company known for its high-quality poultry products. In fact, its family-style business and management practices help to employ many hard-working Americans in the southern United States.

CAT Squared's Debone Yield application empowers companies to improve yield and efficiencies in their deboning departments. The Debone Yield application records incoming weights (e.g., front halves), outgoing component weights (e.g., breast meat, tenders, and frames), as well as meat-on-frame scrape check data, identifying where loss is occurring in the deboning process. Debone Yield provides management with a real-time view of line speeds, efficiencies, weights, and product loss, and CAT Squared's plant-floor dashboards facilitate real-time feedback to associates, enabling them to improve yields in real-time.