Plant Operations & Equipment

Balluff: Tube sensors for microbubble detection

The Balluff microbubble detection sensor is used in special cases where free-floating, microbubbles need to be detected within a tube.

March 15, 2016

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AutomationDirect: Micro touchscreen panel

AutomationDirect’s EA3-T6CL C-more Micro 6 in. touch panel has a 5.7-in. TFT LCD 320 x 240 dot display and a palette of 32K colors for customizing objects, screen backgrounds, and displaying bitmap graphics.

March 15, 2016

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Trends from the 2016 PDA Annual Meeting

The event highlights the importance of engaged patients, advocacy groups and planning for personalized medicine.

March 14, 2016

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An Opportunity to Invest in Packaging

An uncertain market represents an opportunity to invest in packaging materials and machinery.

March 14, 2016

Plant Operations & Equipment

Banner Engineering: Radar dual-zone sensor

Banner Engineering introduced a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar sensor for reliable detection of moving or stationary objects.

March 9, 2016

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2016: The Year of Healthcare Innovation?

While Frost & Sullivan predicts healthcare transformations, Spring Design Partners recommends healthcare brands focus on ‘the human experience.’

March 7, 2016

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Can we solve our workforce problem or not?

This just in from On the Edge Blogger and regular contributing editor Keith Campbell.

March 7, 2016

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Lean strategies to reduce total cost of ownership and energy use

Hear strategies and solutions for reducing unnecessary water and energy use through process and system design changes.

March 4, 2016

Automation & Digital Transformation

Leuze Electronic: All-in-one measurement station

The LSC 200 is a complete system for applications in intralogistics and packaging systems in which sensors and evaluation unit are optimally matched to one another; depending on the application, sensors can be used for object measurement as well as for object detection.

March 4, 2016

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The importance of risk assessment in the packaging industry

Applying the risk assessment process to achieve acceptable risk

March 2, 2016

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All foodborne illness is local—or much of it anyway

Don’t let me distract you as you work diligently to implement the new food safety regulations, as food makers cobble together effective preventive controls programs and food packaging makers fret over just how to provide verification of their compliance.

March 1, 2016

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Is zinc the key to antimicrobial packaging?

Antimicrobial food packaging—where properties incorporated into a packaging component suppress the activities of targeted microorganisms so that the shelf life of food can be safely extended—remains one of those technologies that is talked about more than commercialized. Why?

March 1, 2016

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Industry Watch—March 2016

A quick look on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people as listed in the March 2016 issue of Packaging World.

March 1, 2016