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Type: Blog
Beverage
Food safety automation extends to plant employees
Food processors are moving beyond traditional employee hygiene techniques, such as hand washing and sanitizing sinks coupled with dip mats and foaming sanitizers for footwear. The goal: to ensure 100 percent compliance through automated, hands-free hygiene stations that eliminate the potential for shortcuts, process breakdowns and contamination.
August 1, 2013
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M&A heating up
Wasn’t it fascinating to read the July 29 news about Michigan-based Perrigo buying Ireland’s biotech company Elan for $8.6 billion?
July 31, 2013
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Social media and manufacturing
As I think about the future of packaging operations and manufacturing in general, I think that the introduction of social media to the factory floor could be the most significant stimulus for change over the next decade.
July 30, 2013
Contract Packaging
How your growing sophistication will fuel the contract packaging transformation
In recent weeks and months, I have become increasingly more aware of a significant shift that has been occurring for quite some time now in the Contract Packaging/Manufacturing industry.
July 18, 2013
Contract Packaging
How to survive co-pack industry consolidation
Over time, the ownership of suppliers in the contract packaging, as well as contract manufacturing industry, has evolved.
July 18, 2013
Material handling
Redefining the outsourced supply chain
To state the obvious, contract packaging is rapidly evolving. Perhaps the hardest aspect of a co-pack partnership is finding the right fit in the first place.
July 18, 2013
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Analyzing the case of the New England Compounding Center
Dr. Michael Drues: How might this tragedy lead to an even bigger one!
July 17, 2013
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Will generic pharmaceutical manufacturers serialize their drugs in time?
Consider what impact it might have on your business if your company is not ready.
July 11, 2013
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Targeting inefficiencies in manufacturing
Among the many clever folks I met at The Automation Conference this past May was Chris Jones, a controls and automation expert at tna, the Australian packaging machinery OEM that specializes in high-speed combination scales and baggers used for salty snacks and other industries.
July 11, 2013
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Online pharmacy crackdown: Serious action for a complex problem
Operation Pangea VI takes action against 9,600 Web sites, seizing and shutting down 1,677 Web sites.
July 9, 2013
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Analyzing Coke’s ice bottle
Coke is a master at using packaging as a marketing tool, but is the company using it to build the best legacy?
July 8, 2013
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Package and display design— creating a winning synergy
Throughout their career, packaging professionals will work on numerous new products, and for those in the consumer packaged goods industry, it’s imperative to understand how and where the consumer will first come into contact with the package.
July 1, 2013
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Can't avoid thinking globally
If it's here, it’s got to comply.
July 1, 2013
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Rethink drug packaging
Did you know that for the years 2004 to 2009 the number of annual emergency department visits attributed to unintentional medication overdoses for children younger than five is up significantly while those caused by automobile accidents has declined?
July 1, 2013
Material handling
10 steps to improve efficiencies in the pharmaceutical supply chain
Improving your competitiveness, building sales, cutting costs, tracking product, and upgrading manufacturing equipment and processes are key factors.
July 1, 2013
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A managerial skill is knowing how to talk the talk
The management of packaging necessitates effective communications.
June 13, 2013
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OMG! GMOs are a challenge to packaging
Regardless of whether the epithet “Frankenfoods” is justified for edibles containing GMOs, the packaging-related issues might prove to be monstrous in size.
June 7, 2013
Operational Excellence
Five tips to ensuring product integrity in temperature-sensitive distribution
UPS points to risk management planning, limiting supply chain handoffs, and quality agreements among five vital tips for temperature-sensitive product packaging and distribution.
June 6, 2013
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