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PackML Workshop draws OEMs and CPG companies at TAC

A special component of The Automation Conference in 2014, produced for the third time by Summit Media Group, was a PackML Workshop one day ahead of the conference. The workshop, which was produced in cooperation with OMAC, drew 38 registrants, about half from the Consumer Packaged Goods / end user camp and the other half from packaging machinery OEMs.

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"We got a lot of good feedback on the workshop, which we called 'Demystifying PackML,'" says Chris Thomas, who was the workshop instructor and is also Senior Electrical Engineer at packaging machinery builder Axon, a part of the ProMach group. "It had been our experience that workshops on PackML tend to be at a very high level, to the point where it all becomes a bit scary. PackML is an important thing, but it doesn't have to be scary, especially if you use the tools that are available out there. Procter & Gamble, for instance, as well as countless technology providers have developed templates that are very helpful because they mean you don't have to start from scratch with each machine you build."

 

I asked Thomas to comment on the observation occasionally made that PackML comes with an added cost to the packaging machinery OEM, a fact that has caused some OEMs to shy away from implementing it.

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