With a goal of more tightly integrating processing and packaging from a controls and automation standpoint, the Make2Pack initiative continues to gain momentum. Big believers in the benefits to be gained are three managers at Procter & Gamble: Skip Holmes, associate director corporate engineering; Dave Chappell, corporate technical section head; and Rob Aleksa, corporate machine control section head. Packaging World caught up with these thought leaders at P&G’s innovation center outside of Cincinnati to learn where they think Make2Pack is headed.
PW: Did OMAC Packaging Workgroup and its drive toward standards shape the formation of Make2Pack?
