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Food Processing and Packaging Industry Turns to Remote Access and Virtual Factory Acceptance Tests

OpX Leadership network takes a key role in preparing CPGs and OEMs for life after Covid-19 with tools on Remote Access and Virtual FATs.

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PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network exemplifies industry stakeholders working together to create useful work products that are free to all.  For example,” says Bryan Griffen, “take our total cost of ownership work product.”  Griffen is PMMI’s Director of Industry Services.  “TCO is a work product that we put together several years ago that has had more than 5,000 downloads at this point.”

Once an issue like TCO or OEE has been identified through a series of face-to-face meetings with CPGs, contract packagers and OEMS, OpX forms a solutions group to help reach consensus on terms, formulas, check lists, even producing worksheets to help compute something like OEE.

One of OpX’s very heavily downloaded tools is the OEE calculator.  “All of us know that there's about a million different ways that this has been interpreted throughout the industry. It's hard to find two companies that interpret OEE exactly the same way,” explains Griffen.  “What we did was put a stake in the ground and said this is how the leadership network is defining OEE. These are the calculations that everybody agrees to, and these are the parameters that we believe need to be in those calculations, and where they should be in those calculations.”

Bryan Griffen, Director of Industry Services, gained experience in the CPG world for years before joining the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.Bryan Griffen, Director of Industry Services, gained experience in the CPG world for years before joining the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

“In the ten years since it started, more than 250 companies have collaborated on the development of thirteen different work products, and our mode of operation has always been and will continue to be that anything we do, all of these best practices are free to the industry,” says Griffen.  Work products focus on three areas: people, projects and process.  These tools, developed for industry, by industry, run the gamut from workforce development to clean-in-place guidelines.

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