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The Role of Automation in Modern Food and Beverage Packaging

The Role of Automation in Modern Food and Beverage Packaging

Aug 13, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Automation is becoming essential as food and beverage manufacturers face higher production demands, tighter quality expectations, and pressure to reduce repetitive manual work. Food and beverage automation helps packaging operations run more consistently and efficiently. From individual machines to connected production lines, food and beverage packaging automation can support faster output, reliable packaging quality, and more scalable operations.
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Toil at Home: What Operations Thinking Teaches Us About Daily Routines

Toil at Home: What Operations Thinking Teaches Us About Daily Routines

Aug 13, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Operations teams have a precise word for a specific kind of work: toil. It describes tasks that are manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical rather than strategic, and that scale linearly with growth. Toil produces no lasting value. Every hour spent on it has to be spent again tomorrow. The reason the concept is useful is not that toil is difficult. It is that toil is invisible in the metrics that matter to management, so it accumulates quietly until people burn out.
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Simple Upgrades That Can Transform an Office Building

Simple Upgrades That Can Transform an Office Building

Aug 12, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Office spaces require periodic updates to remain functional and attractive to tenants. Minor changes across physical spaces generate strong returns without requiring multi-year renovation projects. Property improvements increase efficiency, lower operating expenses, and create better work environments for everyone inside. With careful planning, managers can target areas that need immediate attention. Strategic choices keep physical locations competitive. Thoughtful upgrades protect building value and support long-term business goals for property owners.
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IT Automation: What It Is and How to Get Started

Aug 11, 2026 By Derek Pascarella In Resolve
Key Takeaways IT teams are supporting more users, systems, alerts, and services without a matching increase in headcount. Employees also expect immediate support, while businesses want critical services to remain available around the clock. Manual handoffs cannot reliably meet both demands. This guide explains what IT automation includes, how its approaches differ, and how to choose a practical starting point. It also links to deeper resources for each major category.
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Toil Reduction Outside the Data Center: Lessons From the Clinical Front Office

Toil Reduction Outside the Data Center: Lessons From the Clinical Front Office

Aug 7, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Ask an operations team where the week went, and you'll usually get a list of things that shouldn't have needed a person. Access requests provisioned by hand. A disk cleared for the ninth time this quarter. Certificates rotated one at a time because the renewal script was scoped, estimated, and never finished. None of it is difficult, and all of it is necessary. And at the end of the quarter there's nothing to point at, because the work left no trace beyond the absence of an outage.
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Best IT Orchestration Tools for ITSM: 5 Platforms Compared

Aug 6, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
What are the best IT orchestration tools for ITSM? Compare Resolve, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, BigPanda, and Splunk ITSI across workflow automation, governance, integrations, alert correlation, incident response, and enterprise scalability. In this video, you’ll learn: These platforms are not identical. Resolve focuses on orchestrating workflows across systems. ServiceNow centers automation around ticketing and CMDB governance. PagerDuty specializes in incident response. BigPanda focuses on event correlation and triage, while Splunk ITSI provides service intelligence and event analytics.
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Upgrade headaches? Extended Agent Support gives you breathing room #sysadmin #security #devops

Aug 6, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
The RHEL 7 agent deadline is here. Are you covered? Puppet Agent support for RHEL 7 is expiring soon—here is how to keep your systems secure. With RHEL 7 EOL approaching in August 2026, upgrading business-critical systems can be a massive headache. This overview explains how Puppet Extended Agent Support provides continued coverage for your legacy environments. Subscribe for more infrastructure management tips and leave a comment if you are planning a migration.
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Getting started with Ansible playbooks in CFEngine

Aug 5, 2026 By Lars Erik Wik In CFEngine
Recently, I’ve been playing around with the ansible promise type by Fabio Tranchitella. It’s amazing how easy it is to leverage the benefits of agents with all the existing automation from the ansible community. Hence, I wanted to share it in a blog post, with an emphasis on easy. Let’s start off by creating a new cfbs project in a cfengine-ansible directory. Make sure to answer yes on the prompt to build on top of the default policy set.
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