Tour members are reaching out to these business leaders to discuss the productivity potential of PackML in their packaging operations and the broader supply chain.
PackML is a simple concept that standardizes key data point acquisition across different makes of packaging machinery. It reduces the learning curve for plant personnel by providing a common look and feel. PackML is independent of the control system vendor or programming language in use.
PackML stands for the Packaging Machinery Language. It provides a standardized way to collect uniform data across machines, lines, shifts, plants and business units. This uniformity is essential to productivity-enhancing initiatives such as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) analysis and to simplify MES functions.
Founding members The PackML World Tour are ADCO Manufacturing, www.adcomfg.com, Pearson Packaging Systems, www.pearsonpkg.com, and Pro Mach, Inc., www.promachinc.com. Ilapak, www.ilapak.com, has joined to host a European leg. The companies have all implemented PackML in their machine control platforms. All are members of PMMI (Ilapak’s affiliation is through its North American subsidiary Delta Systems). In addition, Pro Mach is an OMAC corporate member. The tour was concepted and organized by B&R Industrial Automation’s packaging group. B&R is a supplier member of PMMI and an OMAC corporate member.
For more information on PackML, visit www.omac.org. PackML has been published by the ISA as a technical report, TR0088.00.02. ISA is the International Society of Automation, www.isa.org. PMMI is the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, www.pmmi.org. OMAC is the Organization for Machine Automation and Control.
For more information and to arrange interviews with Tour member company executives, contact John Kowal, packaging market development manager, B&R Industrial Automation, [email protected] or call 630 258 0371.
