Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Better access to machinery documentation

Machinery builders are making manuals, training, and troubleshooting easier for users by putting the documentation where it's needed most.

November 30, 2005

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

GPS track-and-trace demo

UCLA researchers demonstrate a wireless GPS-sensor tracking system that targets the cold chain and other applications.

November 30, 2005

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Midwest Poultry: Laser coding for egg cartons

Midwest Poultry operates 30 Focus S10 laser systems from Videojet Technologies that improve the crucial carton coding part of its operations at three of its plants. The carton ends are laser etched with a two-line, 1/4""-high code at a rate up to 40 cartons/min; vacuum tubing removes the residue. Midwest Poultry codes onto expanded polystyrene or molded pulp (shown) cartons.

October 31, 2005

Containers

Design for shoppers

Leverage the design process to build leadership brands in store.

October 31, 2005

Sustainable Packaging

How to achieve product differentiation? Don't stop there!

Most consumers’ shopping patterns are hardly rational. Engage them with package designs that use a consumer-focused mind-set rather than a product-oriented one.

October 31, 2005

Cartoning

Are you ready for lean design?

Opening presenter at PMMI’s annual meeting, ELAU NA president Christopher Zei described how packaging machine OEMs can reduce Total Cost to Develop along with packagers’ TCO.

October 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

PackML and PackTags in use at SABMiller

SABMiller in its Newlands Brewery near Cape Town, South Africa, is among the early adapters of PackML, an OMAC standard that defines machine states.

October 31, 2005

Flexibles

Nestlé's Traitler on equipment requirements

“We need increased flexibility from packaging equipment, yet if we sacrifice speed in achieving flexibility, we can’t achieve true cost optimization.”

October 31, 2005

Cartoning

BevOps covers advances in packaging machinery

Conference covers the technology revolution in beverage packaging machinery introduced at 3 recent trade shows.

October 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Product focus: Tamper-evident RFID tags

Smart&Secure technology fights product counterfeiting, diversion, and tampering in the supply chain at a 10% premium to typical RFID tags.

October 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID in healthcare

What are the primary benefits RFID can deliver for pharmaceutical packagers?

October 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

RFID value beyond compliance

Former Sara Lee exec Ray Hagedorn shares that company's lessons as he emphasizes looking for value in RFID.

October 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Psst: The privacy world of RFID

Are privacy concerns about RFID valid or conspiracy-theory paranoid?

October 31, 2005