With its equipment installed in ice cream manufacturing plants all around the world, it’s handy to have a way to troubleshoot and edit operating and safety programs from centralized locations. As it designs and deploys its industrial ice cream plants, Gram Equipment uses Rockwell Automation’s scalable and flexible platforms to help provide the monitoring and Control it needs to ensure process optimization and product quality. Located in Vojens, in southern Denmark, Gram Equipment delivers tailor-made, complete production lines to ice cream producers and other food processing firms looking for integrated solutions. These solutions include everything from individual assembly lines to complete production plants

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