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Data Transitions Packaging to a Futureproof Digital World
Specright offers insights into spec management using a common language at ISTA Forum 2022.
Supplier Submitted
SOMIC Packaging Completes First U.S. Factory Acceptance Test
Supplier Submitted
Sidel Receives Certification for its Vocational Training Programs
Operational excellence
In-process Package Testing for the Manufacturing Process
Supplier Submitted
R.A Jones Expands its Asset Management Program for CPGs
Operational excellence
OEE: A Top Business Metric
PerformOEE Smart Factory Software from OEESystems International looks to extend the overall equipment effectiveness metric beyond its plant floor roots to link CapEx to realistic operational improvements.
Supplier News
Krones Combines its Digitalization Activities
Krones created Krones.digital bringing together all groupwide resources in the fields of digitalization and automation in order to adopt an overarching approach to developing solutions primarily for gathering, analyzing and utilizing production data.
Sponsored
Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste
Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.
Sustainability
Sustainable Packaging—Seventh Generation Keeps Moving the Needle
Seventh Generation, which was knee-deep in sustainable packaging when it was hardly even a thing, is waiting for their CPG peers to sense the urgency and catch up—now.
Primary packaging
Iraqi Beverage Producer Efficiently Quenches Baghdad's Thirst with High-Speed PET Water Line
From Baghdad, Iraq, where keeping hydrated in an arid, sunny climate is essential, comes an interesting high-speed, high-efficiency water-bottling project. With a speed of 48,000 bottles/hour (bph), the line, installed by Sidel, achieves 96% OEE.
Operational excellence
One New Regulator, and Thoughts About All of Them
Whenever a president nominates a new commissioner to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, it inspires in me some thoughts and questions about the agency, and regulation generally.
Sponsored
Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste
Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.
Business intelligence
When the Identity of a Packaging Supplier is Withheld from the Buyer
The practice is legal; however, whether it’s justifiable is debatable. What’s certain is that it is less than forthcoming.
Operational excellence
CMMS Specifically for OEMs
Exhibiting for the first time at PACK EXPO, Llumin, an established participant in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) space, introduced a new software called Llumin for OEMs.
Take Five
RFID on Pharma Bottles Tracks Beyond Point of Sale, to Point of Use
Fresenius Kabi responds to its customers’ request for an RFID tracking system to allow precise inventory control throughout hospitals. Also on this Take Five video: PACK EXPO Las Vegas' educational sessions on connected packaging and the supply chain.
Business intelligence
Live at Craft Brew Conference: Small, Independent Brewers Face Transition
In a maturing market, craft brewers are dealing with change on two fronts: the drastic, immediate impacts of pandemic-related channel shocks; and the slow, imperceptible tectonic landscape shift of generational, demographic change.
Operational excellence
Packaging and Predictive Maintenance
Predictive maintenance is the ability to monitor a machine, or machine component, and avoid unplanned downtime by foreseeing machine failure and allowing the opportunity to take preventative action.
Operational excellence
The Bottling Plant in the Mountains
Sheikh Mohammed Mussallam describes what it’s like to build a brand new water bottling company, A&M Rare, in the remote Pambak Mountains of Armenia.
Operational excellence
CPGs to Spend $23.8 Billion on Digital Transformation by 2030
As the sharing of information along the supply chain becomes more critical, CPGs are increasingly creating digital threads to inform their production plans with relevant data.
Take Five
Packaging Serialization: Are You Ready to Exchange Master Data?
Watch this Take Five video to learn how, with limited time left to onboard, experts urge pharmaceutical manufacturers to begin testing and sharing traceability data with distributors ASAP to meet DSCSA requirements.
Supplier News
Printpack’s Williamsburg Plant Receives VPP Star Certification
The facility was approved as a Virginia STAR Worksite under Virginia’s Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), the agency’s highest level of recognition for excellence in safety and health management systems.
Operational excellence
Kellogg and Mars: Views on Supplier Relationship Management
A growing body of evidence shows that if CPG companies are excessively fixated on price and price alone, other forms of value are not being capitalized on.
Operational excellence
At What Point Should Companies Cease Using Controversial Packaging Components?
This month, we will explore the surprisingly complex question of “when?,” as in, when does a packaging company decide to stop using a controversial component substance?
Supplier News
Companies Invest in the International Expansion of Safe Load Testing Technologies
Safe Load Testing Technologies' products and its leadership in Europe were the two determining factors for the MONDRAGON Corp. and CDTi to invest more than €600,000 in international expansion of the company.
Operational excellence
Approved Vendor Lists for Packaging
To be told, “You’re on my list,” is welcomed news when it refers to an AVL.
Supplier News
Sacmi to Host Webinar on the Profitable Use of Recycle PET
Sacmi will hold a free webinar on How to Turn PET/rPET Preforms Quality Control Into a Profitable Advantage on May 20, 2021 11:00 AM EDT in collaboration with the Beverage Industry Magazine.
Operational excellence
Packaging’s Vital Role in Vendor Management
Managing packaging vendors should not be like herding cats.
