Beverage

Arla's quest for Business-to-Manufacturing integration

Denmark’s giant dairy co-op sees standards-based automation solutions as the best way to harmonize not only processing and packaging but all of business and manufacturing, as well.

February 28, 2005

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Flow wrapping

Promises, Promises, What's In It for Me?

Emerging standards and improved data connectivity hold the promise of helping manufacturers tie their plant and business processes into one neat package.

February 28, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

What a package designer should know about packaging machinery

At the Flexible Packaging Conference 2005, ELAU’s John Kowal helps packagers coordinate great package designs with the right machinery to run the packages efficiently.

February 28, 2005

Beverage

Lessons learned from Baileys redesign

Baileys’ brand director offers advice about managing a major redesign.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

How to capitalize on the manufacturing revolution

Surrounded by constant miracles of technological innovation, the development of China as the manufacturing center of the world, and customers who are more demanding than ever, how does today’s manufacturer cope?

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Pfizer: Pharma industry needs machine interoperability

Paul Greene of corporate IT at Pfizer had interoperability and widespread enterprise integration on the brain February 3 when he addressed the ARC Advisory Group’s Performance Driven Manufacturing Forum in Orlando, FL.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Eurotherm: Eurotherm: Data management system

Eurotherm, a unit of Invensys plc, has announced the release of a new Advanced Screen Builder feature in the 5000 Series Data Management System. This feature enables 24 custom user screens to be created and viewed at the instrument’s touch screen.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Having fun with wine packaging

Snob Hill Winery scores with a synthetic cork and its Le Snoot piggy graphics on labels. Don Sebastiani puts a screw cap in its wine name.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Spirited redesign for Baileys

Why mess with success? Diageo’s popular Baileys Irish Cream receives a dramatic new consumer-driven look.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Dimensions.05 delivers for packaging pros

Manufacturers, distributors, packaging suppliers, and testing laboratories should not miss Dimensions.05, The International Forum on Transport Packaging.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Packagers to benefit from ISA--OMAC merger

ELAU, with ties to ISA and OMAC, already sees a convergence in the Make2Pack initiative, integrating best of breed automation solutions across the supply chain.

December 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC and ISA to merge

On January 17, the OMAC Board of Directors announced that it has started detailed planning activities which will lead to a merger with ISA (The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society).

December 31, 2004

Labels

Cut heat shrink label costs by up to 80%

New high speed, high quality shrink labeling machinery uses roll-fed material in place of sleeves that cost 3-5X more.

December 31, 2004