2009 Program Packaging Automation Forum 2009 InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Monday, March 30, 2009 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Make2Pack and Connect-and-Pack™ Workshop (registration required) 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Early Registration and Cocktail Reception Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:15 – 8:20 a.m. Registration and Breakfast 8:20 – 8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks Pat Reynolds, Editor, Packaging World 8:30 – 9:15 a.m. How the Use of Real-Time Data Brings Increased Flexibility and Improves Speed to Market Mark Hanley, Worldwide Performance Indicator Program Manager, Kraft Foods Accurate measurement of OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) and a firm control over real-time data are the keys to bringing the kind of flexibility to your packaging operation that results in improved speed to market. Hanley provides key insights into how the largest food and beverage company in the U.S. processes these important manufacturing metrics. 9:15 – 10:00 a.m. Connecting the Plant Floor with the Executive Suite Allen Moore, Corporate Electrical Controls Manager, Lance, Inc. A well known maker of salty snacks, Lance moved in 2008 to an Oracle ERP system that lets management pull in data automatically from any of the firm's 9 plants. "It's bringing us visibility into just about any aspect of our manufacturing process, including packaging," says Allen Moore. In this session, Moore describes the successes Lance has had in tying its packaging operations into its ERP system. He also outlines what lies ahead now that a foundation for enterprise-wide integration has been laid, and he offers some indispensable ideas on how to persuade the CFOs, CIOs, and CEOs of the world that capital investment in new controls technologies pays big dividends when it comes to business benefits. 10:00 – 10:40 a.m. Morning Break 10:40 – 11:25 a.m. How New Controls and Integration Technologies Let Packaging Machinery OEMs Build a Better Breed of Packaging Machinery Ray Buchko, Jr., Vice President of Operations, CP Packaging Robert Hattin, President, Edson Packaging Machinery CP Packaging was looking for better control of the rollstock infeed, forming, and sealing sequences of machinery used for packaging deli-style luncheon meats. So management took advantage of recent advances in controls technology to build a machine that is smaller, easier to clean, easier to build, and less costly than comparable thermoform/seal equipment available today. Ray Buchko will describe the technology and controls architecture behind this breakthrough machine. Joining Ray in this session will be Rob Ettin of Edson Packaging Machinery. Rob will share his strategic thinking on the importance of developing global machinery platforms that will help his firm build packaging machines that are attractive in export markets where the interest in automated packaging is beginning to build. 11:25 – 12:00 p.m. Drug Serialization from a Controls Perspective Mike Celentano, Associate Director of Supply Chain Systems and RFID Purdue Pharma LP Unique identification numbers at the unit level are increasingly necessary in the pharmaceutical industry as drug manufacturers ramp up their anti-counterfeiting and track-and-trace efforts. Purdue Pharma is successfully serializing drug products at both an item and case level. But how does a drug manufacturer keep track of the wealth of data flowing from a packaging line and its business systems? Hear Mike Celentano, Associate Director of Supply Chain Systems and RFID at Purdue Pharma, describe the Packaging Execution System that Purdue developed to address this emerging requirement. 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon 1:30 – 1:35 p.m. Afternoon Session Welcome Gary Mintchell, Editor, Automation World 1:35 – 2:20 p.m. Wireless Comes to Packaging Sentekin Can, Principal Controls Engineer, Nestle Purina Learn how a leading manufacturer of pet food products finds value in what some are calling a transformational technology. "We've only begun to apply Wireless to packaging," says Can. 2:20 – 3:00 p.m. How Coordinated Controls Technologies Can Play a Role in Bringing Greater Standardization, and Thus Greater Efficiency, to the World's Pharmaceutical Packaging Lines Murugan Govindasamy, Senior Manager Global Manufacturing Service, Pfizer Inc. Pharmaceutical packaging lines consist of equipment made by hundreds of OEMs. What if there was a set of guidelines that would help all OEMs do a better job of supplying equipment that was ready from day one to optimize the operation of the entire packaging line? Could these standards also help the plant floor connect with the MES, ERP, and other higher-level business systems that today's Pharmaceutical Manufacturers have running in their enterprises? Whether you're involved in pharmaceutical packaging or not, you won't want to miss what Pfizer's Govindasamy has to say about the controls technology the pharma sector needs in the future--or sooner. 3:00 – 3:40 p.m. Afternoon Break 3:40 – 4:25 p.m. Data Acquisition: It Simplifies Startups, Then Spurs Manufacturing Efficiency Rali Sanderson, Director of Engineering, Niagara Bottling LLC Bill Hall, Director of Manufacturing, Niagara Bottling LLC Installing new bottling lines for one of the nation's largest bottled water producers is one of Rali Sanderson's key responsibilities. Keeping those lines running month after month at peak efficiency is the concern of Director of Manufacturing Bill Hall. Hear how both of these packaging professionals benefit by applying the latest in real-time data acquisition. 4:25 – 4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception