OEE & Lean Manufacturing

Controls Product Brief

| June 3, 2013

Auto-adjust system

For machine changeover points, it can improve overall equipment effectiveness, speed, and lower costs.

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Column/Opinion

| April 15, 2013

From good to better to best practices

Do you have the best perspective for searching for best practices?

Column/Opinion

| March 11, 2013

Lean: new concept that's old to packaging

“What’s old is new” is a truth that doesn’t only apply to fashion.

News

| December 18, 2012

Top 9 packaging trends for 2013

PTIS shares its thoughts on packaging trends for the new year and asks industry colleagues to submit ideas for the number-one development for 2013.

News

| November 29, 2012

Distribution centers lose nearly 3,000 hr/yr on unproductive workflows

Respondents identify packing and loading as having the least efficient workflow. Solutions may include new technology such as faster labelers and bar-code scanners.

Podcast | October 31, 2012

Podcast: Automated OEE tool from Ossid

Ossid is now offering automated Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) software for weigh price labelers. This is a must listen podcast for everyone interested in OEE. Product Manager Mike Alyounes masterfully describes OEE in practical terms and explains how OEE can help packagers reach production goals. Booth # N-3913

News

| May 23, 2012

Discrete, Process Automation and Packaging Come Together at The Automation Conference

The first annual Automation Conference, bringing together process, discrete and packaging professionals in one conference, kicked off this morning with keynotes speakers from Boeing and ExxonMobil. The conference runs from May 22-23 in Chicago, IL.

Controls Case Study

| May 22, 2012

Pepsi bottler shares secrets of OEE, Six Sigma, Lean

Pepsi Bottling Ventures boosts uptime, improves OEE scores 21 points, adds more than an hour to daily productivity and covers automation costs in one year in Nampa, Idaho, the project's leader told attendees learned in a packaging session at The Automation Conference.