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Regional OEE workshops set for 2009

Locations and dates are Tampa in February, Chicago in June, and Denver in October.

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Summit Publishing Co.’s Packaging World magazine and packaging technology company Zarpac Inc. (www.zarpac.com) continue a series of Packaging Line Performance Workshops in 2009.

Attendees of the intensive two-day Workshops will learn the fundamentals of packaging line performance and strategies for improvement, to help packagers to make their operations more profitable through Overall Equipment Effectiveness (for more on OEE and production productivity, see Taking aim at OEE, published Oct. 2008). This year’s Workshops are offered in Feb. 24-25 2009 in Tampa,  June 23-24 in Chicago, and Oct. 27-28 in Denver.

The Workshops are designed for production managers, plant managers, project engineers, continuous improvement specialists, maintenance professionals and plant technicians. OEE expert and Workshop instructor Paul J. Zepf, M. Eng. P. Eng., CPP of Zarpac has authored 10 books on packaging production systems. Zepf has researched and developed new concepts for calculating and designing packaging processes, machinery and effective operations.

Registration is now open at www.packagingperformance.com, or by calling Jurate Zelba at Summit Publishing Company at 312-222-1010, ext. 135.

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