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Sustainable Packaging
Barilla: reduce, reuse, recycle
Guided by the words of its founder, who said, “Feed people as you would feed your own children,” over the last five years, Italian food company Barilla Group has made sustainability an official part of its corporate strategy. Here, Michele Amigoni, Group Supply Chain packaging design and standards director for Barilla, discusses the company’s sustainable packaging efforts.
May 1, 2013
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World markets for packaging
The world is now more accessible to open trade than ever before in history.
May 1, 2013
Controls & Machine Components
OMAC Packaging Workgroup elaborates on plans for standardized HMI
Recently in this space we presented a summary of a Webinar in which Nestle’s Bryan Griffen, manager of electrical and automation engineering and chairman of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup, outlined Nestle’s perspective on the business value of OMAC PackML.
April 17, 2013
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Here’s to standards and canines
In a recent edition of the online Machine Automation Insights newsletter that I produce, I presented a summary of a Webinar in which Bryan Griffen, manager of electrical and automation engineering at Nestle and chairman of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup, outlined Nestle’s perspective on the business value of OMAC PackML.
April 16, 2013
Operational Excellence
From good to better to best practices
Do you have the best perspective for searching for best practices?
April 15, 2013
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Moore's Law and Packaging
How does a law that is generally related to the rate of increase of affordable computing power relate to your packaging operations? In preparing an article for the April issue of Packaging World on a new breed of linear servo motors, I recognized that this is at least the second time that Moore's law has been behind a shift in packaging machine design.
April 7, 2013
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What is appropriate technology?
New technology often gets a bad name in its early going. People don´t adapt well to change, and early applications often look clumsy and expensive. It took a long time for microwave ovens, mobile phones and new servo motors to reach mainstream. A $50,000 microwave oven or a $10,000 mobile phone was at one point appropriate for only a limited class of applications. In time, these products reached a price point that made them appropriate for almost every kitchen, pocket or purse.
April 7, 2013
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When peanuts are tea leaves
The notorious Salmonella outbreak in 2008-2009, in which Georgia-based Peanut Corporation of America was alleged to have supplied contaminated peanut products to makers of hundreds of food products, has finally resulted in criminal charges, as many observers had expected.
April 2, 2013
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OUT THERE…
To the most intense packaging wonks, packaging isn’t everything. It’s the ONLY thing, often prompting them to make great leaps of faith to fulfill their dreams.
April 2, 2013
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USP addresses moisture permeation in pharmaceutical packaging
Dr. Desmond G. Hunt, senior scientific liaison within the U.S. Pharmacopoeial Convention (USP), discusses USP’s pending revisions to USP General Chapter Containers—Performance Testing, concerning packaging and moisture permeation.
April 2, 2013
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The inclusive design imperative
The inclusive design movement is known by many names: design for all, universal design, accessible design, trans-generational design, participatory design, and barrier free design among them.
April 2, 2013
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A new approach in Mechatronics training
A few years back there emerged this widely accepted observation about the future: In 1980, 80% of the complexity of equipment was mechanical, but by 2020, only 20% of it will be mechanical, and electronics will replace the mechanics.
March 19, 2013
Operational Excellence
Lean: new concept that's old to packaging
“What’s old is new” is a truth that doesn’t only apply to fashion.
March 11, 2013
Workforce
Are these acts of war?
It is good to have someone from inside Washington DC express views on national security that make sense to me and that align with topics that are written about frequently on this blog.
March 1, 2013
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The value of being an 'un-packaging' engineer
Packaging engineers are truly unique in their abilities and knowledge to greatly influence their organizations in ways that few have yet tapped.
February 28, 2013
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New Pom decision plays different tune
If someone asked me to explain why Louis Armstrong was so important to musical history, I’d likely say something about how he explored new territories for soloing, and was a generally excellent technical player.
February 28, 2013
Workforce
True success of 'robotics revolution' hinges on training and education
Packaging professionals should stay abreast of a robotics conversation that won’t be going away any time soon.
February 28, 2013
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Packaging viewed through Schiff's lense
Packaging engineer Jordan Rettig of Salt Lake City-based Schiff Nutrition talks about trends he’s seeing in packaging these days.
February 28, 2013
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