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Sterilizing/filling/capping system

Filling and capping is done under aseptic conditions.

March 19, 2007

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Machine building = risk assessment

Consumer packaged goods companies in the United States have all been busy "downsizing" and "rightsizing" and "outsourcing" for the past decade or so.

March 18, 2007

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Technician training via the Web

Internet-based integrated systems technician training will be offered to manufacturers in South Central Pennsylvania thanks to a $400,000 state grant received by the South Central Pennsylvania Center of Excellence for Packaging operations.

March 18, 2007

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OMAC demos shine at Pack Expo

A highlight of Pack Expo International 2006, held recently at Chicago's McCormick Place, was the OMAC booth in the Concourse area between the North and South Halls. On display in a series of demos was controller-to-controller synchronization - over SERCOS, over EtherCAT, over Ethernet Powerlink, or over Profinet - that could bring a number of benefits to end users, but none greater than this: a reduction in floor space consumed by buffer zones or accumulation systems.

March 18, 2007

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Top floor/shop floor: a temporal disconnect

Even though the May 24 Packaging Automation Forum sponsored by Packaging World and Automation World took place nearly three months ago, I continue to find important nuggets of insight as I review the Powerpoint presentations made at the forum. Take, for example, the illustration shown here, which comes from Procter & Gamble's Dave Chappell's presentation on Make2Pack. It's a powerful reminder of how the very meaning of time itself changes radically as we move from one level of a Consumer Packaged Goods company to another.

March 18, 2007

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Tips on minimizing unplanned downtime

Christian von Olshausen, process engineer packing at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Germany, will be a featured speaker at the Packaging Automation Forum May 23 in Chicago. His presentation will focus on how controls and automation technologies, properly implemented on today's packaging lines, can minimize unplanned downtime by contributing greatly to Total Quality Management (TQM) and Total Productivity Management (TPM).

March 18, 2007

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Make2Pack moves forward

Up for discussion at the November 16-17 Make2Pack meeting at Procter & Gamble's Brussels Innovation Center in Belgium will be a proposed PackML State Model version 3.0. This new state model has evolved from the original packaging machine version and is said to be much closer to the original S88.01 batch control equipment state model.

March 18, 2007

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How to build packaging machinery

"Technology providers are leading the charge as far as new developments in packaging machinery are concerned. OEMs must adapt to these new developments or be left on the sidelines."

March 18, 2007

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How to build an OEM alliance

Packaging machinery manufacturers everywhere are seeking alliances with their machinery-building peers. They feel that by partnering with another OEM, they have a better chance of providing the kind of integrated solution that buyers of packaging machinery are looking for more than ever these days.

March 18, 2007

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Call for papers

Packaging World and Automation World are seeking speakers for the second edition of the Packaging Automation Forum, scheduled for mid to late May 2007 in Chicago.

March 18, 2007

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How to build packaging machinery

"Technology providers are leading the charge as far as new developments in packaging machinery are concerned. OEMs must adapt to these new developments or be left on the sidelines."

March 18, 2007

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Thoughts on project implementation

Packaged goods manufacturers planning major capital expenditures involving new packaging lines should do everything they possibly can to carefully think things through from a controls standpoint before final selections on packaging machines are made.

March 18, 2007