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PACK EXPO Connects Engages CPGs Through March 31

PEC’s Jumpstart videos, Innovation Stages, Demos, Educational Sessions, and Showrooms will continue to be available in the upcoming months.

FATs include automated product delivery systems and multiple conveyor loops to simulate actual plant conditions as closely as possible. Image courtesy of Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery.

The Power of One Voice—On-site or Virtually

Vertical start-up can be consistently improved with the updated virtual FAT tool from PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network. In addition, processor relationships with OEMs can be greatly enhanced, resulting in better service and pricing.

An important factor in understanding asset reliability is in its relationship to overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Asset reliability initiatives are focused on two key areas within OEE loss: planned downtime events and unplanned downtime events. Source: PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network OEE guidelines report.

The Drive to Zero Downtime

The time invested in building reliability initiatives can pay huge dividends in the future. Systems and equipment can become more reliable and allow food and beverage manufacturers to fulfill safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives.

Hixson designed renovations and a new line for Abbott Nutrition’s Tipp City, Ohio, plant. The facility features low-acid aseptic filling at greater than 800 bpm, segregated storage areas, state-of-the-art sterilization technologies, and highly flexible production and packaging lines.

Get More From Your Existing Assets

Identifying why your equipment is running below its potential is the first step in boosting output. Visibility tools, remote diagnostics, and the care and feeding of your essential human assets can push throughput in the right direction.

Identify, quantify, and break down the costs of purchasing and operating machinery with the revamped OpX tool, Total Cost of Ownership.

Revamped Industry Tool Allows Manufacturers to Understand Total Cost of Machinery Purchase

The Total Cost of Ownership tool now includes case study examples and a customizable Excel workbook.

At PMMI panel, new OpX work product, the virtual FAT, is introduced.

CPGs and OEMs Reveal Tips for Conducting Successful Virtual FATs

The Checklist is important but allow the process the extra time needed in a virtual setting.

Plant and office closures.

Factory Plants and Offices Coming Out of COVID-19

Stats show improvements in quotation index levels but an increase of denial of access into CPG plants.

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Virtual FAT Guidelines from OpX

The OpX Leadership Network releases best practices and leadership guidelines for executing virtual factory acceptance tests (vFATs), to address the changing operational landscape brought on by COVID-19.

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How to Shorten Lead Times in a Demanding Market

With the push from consumers in the generation of “now,” CPGs need support from their OEM partners to tighten equipment delivery times in the race to innovation. Ideas run the length of the project, from inception to installation.