David NewcornControls & Machine ComponentsHow electronic controls impact equipment costsIn mid-December, the top engineering management at Hershey Foods, Hershey, PA, asked Rick Lidington of R.A. Jones to give a presentation that touched on some current packaging equipment trends. Packaging World was invited to listen in.January 31, 2002Controls & Machine ComponentsWake up and smell the standards! (sidebar)OMAC’s accomplishmentsNovember 30, 2001Controls & Machine ComponentsWake up and smell the standards!Attention packaging machine buyers. Take this quick quiz: Are you fed up with trying to maintain increasingly computerized packaging equipment, networks, and plants?November 30, 2001HomeIntegration issues squeeze machinery buildersMachinery builders find it challenging to recoup the cost of time spent learning a variety of control systems to satisfy customer networking requirements, according to an exclusive PW survey.September 30, 2001Controls & Machine ComponentsPackaging trails the networked futureAn astonishing 71% of respondents to an exclusive PW survey report that few or none of their packaging lines are networked. Packagers identify top reasons for wanting packaging-line networks and the major obstacles that hold them back.August 31, 2001Controls & Machine ComponentsOMAC picks up speedP&G, Hershey, M&M Mars indicate that OMAC involvement has already helped their bottom lines. Also, new PackML group formed to tackle naming convention guidelines for machine states.May 31, 2001HomeMaterials Procurement: Synchronizing the Supply ChainHow the Internet will take Kraft's packaging supply chain efficiency to the next level.April 30, 2001Converting equipmentA different kind of portalWhile e-marketplaces, hubs, exchanges and portals cling to dear life now that funding sources have dried up, we’ve seen the quiet emergence of another type of so-called portal: Call it the “information portal.”March 31, 2001Filling/capping, liquid & viscousOMAC: Standardize packaging machine 'states'Should packagers define an industry standard for the various states of a packaging machine? That and other weighty questions were debated at the most recent OMAC meeting in late February in Orlando, FL.February 28, 2001Protective/transport packagingTransport packaging: Turning data into dollarsDesigners of transport and distribution packaging have known for years that the economics of such designs rest on a knife’s edge: Too much packaging and you’re wasting money.February 28, 2001Previous PagePage 8 of 26Next PageTop StoriesSustainable PackagingFrom Registration to Reporting: EPR Gets RealAt the Packaging Recycling Summit in Dallas, speakers shared real-world lessons from the front lines of EPR implementation, where registration is complete, reporting is underway, and the learning curve is still steep.SustainabilitySurvey: Cost Tops List of Biggest Barriers to Sustainable PackagingReusable/ReturnableLisbon Introduces City-Wide Reusable Cup ProgramFlexiblesNew CPG Brand-led Initiative Aims to Recycle Flexible Packaging at ScaleSponsor ContentStainless Steel Liquid Mixers for Demanding Sanitary Applications
