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Hormel, Barry-Wehmiller Early One Voice Ready Certification Adopters
To close the industry’s workforce development and skills gap, PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network recently launched its new One Voice Ready certificates, an assessment-based program based on knowledge of specific industry solutions and best practices.
Operational excellence
Fruit Company Found Pharma Cold Shipper Extended Shelf Life by Three to Four Days
Operational excellence
The Global Supply Chain and Value-Add to Serialization Compliance
Operational excellence
Outlook to 2030 in the Pharmaceutical Cold Chain
Operational excellence
Creating Algorithms to Improve Production
Operational excellence
How to Optimize Your Transit Packaging
Day two PACK EXPO Innovation Stage presentation looks at “keeping your products safe and your customers happy.”
Operational excellence
Mezzanine for Virtually Any Facility’s Existing Layout
Sturdy work platform helps companies obtain additional square footage.
Sponsored
Industry award to honor packaging and processing professionals
Beginning March 3, PMMI will accept nominations for the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Since 1971, this prestigious award has recognized some of the most distinguished contributors to industry. Learn more »
Operational excellence
ISTA Pharma Committee Releases USP Stimuli Article
‘Reusable Passive Thermal Packaging System: Best Practice Guideline,’ provides specific guidance on the types of materials used, the qualification of a reusable system, the return logistics and refurbishment service management, and refurbishment and inspection details.
Operational excellence
Glass cartridges for autoinjector pens chip and scuff during shipping, these small defects cause big breaks later in the lifecycle
New paper details vibration dampening panel added to regular pallets containing traditional white box trays virtually eliminates glass damage during shipping.
Operational excellence
“Big Blue” supply chain woes lead to IOT solutions
Wireless connectivity allows IBM to monitor condition of mainframe shipments, not just location. Battery life still an issue.
Sponsored
Industry award to honor packaging and processing professionals
Beginning March 3, PMMI will accept nominations for the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Since 1971, this prestigious award has recognized some of the most distinguished contributors to industry. Learn more »
Package Design
Theft and sabotage in the supply chain is big business
Supply chain theft is estimated at $35-40 billion per year in the US, and today’s threats to the commercial supply chain are different than those of the past. Logistics companies are perfect targets, and those that aren’t aware of the changes are more likely to fall prey.
Package Design
Innovation in the supply chain
Technology, e-commerce, digitization and customer experience are all driving supply chain innovations. How do we organize and implement innovation, to stay on the forefront of modern change?
Operational excellence
Fundamentals of packaging for intermodalism
As a supply chain grows from regional to national to international to global, it better reflect the fundamentals of intermodalism and what it implies for packaging.
Operational excellence
Supply Chain Innovation in 2019
Robotics, augmented reality and digital transformation will be top of mind for the future of supply chain logistics, as well as e-commerce and customer experience.
Operational excellence
DSCSA focus shifts to wholesaler/distributors
Healthcare Packaging looks at the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), circa 2019, in this exclusive interview with Peter Sturtevant, Senior Director, Industry Engagement—Pharmaceuticals, GS1 US.
Operational excellence
Supply chain security 101
Protecting your people, products, intellectual property and your firm’s reputation, has become a white collar profession.
Operational excellence
Live at Top to Top: Suppliers and buyers look for obsolescence common ground
It can outwardly appear to be a zero-sum game of competing goals. But brand owners, machine builders, and controls suppliers pulled the curtain back on they realities they face and the masters they serve in a play to work better together.
Materials & containers
Shippers deliver early-stage clinical trial samples
Celerion helps its pharmaceutical manufacturer clients safely and swiftly deliver products in environmentally friendly, temperature-sensitive shipping containers.
Operational excellence
Cold chain management connects pharma to food
In this First Person Q&A, Anthony Dellumo, Product Specialist at QProducts & Services, discusses thermal packaging needs in these two markets, and the booming e-commerce business and its cold chain implications.
Operational excellence
Supply chain issues call for track-and-trace technologies
New report forecasts nearly 19% CAGR for these solutions to improve security and drug traceability.
Materials & containers
Albertsons Companies makes environmental switch for pharmacy shipments
Food and drug retailer to begin using paper-based containers for its temperature-sensitive shipments in late February, with the goal of diverting up to 75,000 lb of packaging from landfills every year.
Primary packaging
Single-pass RFID insertion improves job turnaround times
Canadian label printer installs a ‘smart label’ system that provides traceability and reduces human error in material handling and inventory operations.
Operational excellence
Duravant adquirió a Wulftec International
Con esta importante adquisición Duravant LLC pretende fortalecer su portafolio de equipos de fin de línea a tiempo que busca expandir sus capacidades de automatización e integración.
Operational excellence
Nueva planta de Nestlé en México
Con una inversión de 154 millones de dólares, las instalaciones permitirán procesar veinte mil toneladas de café verde al año.
Operational excellence
Schneider Electric lanza fondo de capital de riesgo
Con un enfoque en la sustentabilidad y en la eficiencia energética, Schneider Electric planea apoyar a las nuevas empresas a través de la financiación, la incubación y las asociaciones.
