More than 100 people representing nine major packaging end-users, 19 machinery builders and 28 controls suppliers attended the meeting at the October Pack Expo Las Vegas show.
The meeting was organized and sponsored by the Indramat Div. of Mannesmann Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL), ARC Advisory Group (Dedham, MA) and Packaging World magazine.
The meeting was moderated by Dennis Daniels, director of sales & marketing of ARC Advisory Group. Daniels coordinates the OMAC Users Group (Open Modular Architecture Controls). OMAC is a multi-industry controls users group.
End-user panelists:
Robert Aleksa
Corporate controls section head
Procter & Gamble
Donald R. Boyle
Senior director, process control systems
Nabisco
Keith S. Campbell
Director, automation & integration
Hershey Foods
Robert Kelley
Manager, electrical & control
General Mills
Raymond J. Zimmermann
Director, corporate engineering
Anheuser-Busch Cos.
Other end-user attendees:
Fluor Daniel Inc.
Kraft Foods
Ralston Purina Co.
Schering-Plough
Machinery builder attendees:
ABB Flexible Automation, Inc.
All-Fill
Alvey Systems, Inc.
Angelus Sanitary Can Machine Co.
Robert Bosch Corp., Packaging Machinery Div.
Bradman-Lake, Inc.
Fallas Automation, Inc.
GEBO Corp. USA
R.A. Jones
Kisters Kayat, Inc.
Klockner Packaging Machinery
Nordson
Packworld USA
R.A. Pearson Co.
Sasib Food & Beverage Machinery
SIG Pack Inc.
Streamfeeder
Triangle Package Machinery Co.
Controls supplier attendees:
Alpha Getribebau GmbH
API Motion
Beckoff Automation LLC
Cimetrix
Compumotor Div., Parker Hannifin Corp.
CTC Div., Parker Hannifin Corp.
Cybertol Engineering
ELAU, Inc.
Electro Cam Corp.
Emerson Motion Control
Klinkel Packaging Consultant
Indramat Div., Mannesmann Rexroth
Lion Precision
Minarik Automation & Control
Motion Engineering
Nexen Group Inc.
Object Factory
Ormec
Pacific Scientific
Rexroth Mecman Div., Mannesmann Rexroth
Rockwell Automation
Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.
Think & Do Software
Vickers, Inc.
Whedco
Xycom Automation
Yaskawa Electric America, Inc.
Zarpac, Inc.
Other attendees:
Alimentos Procesados magazine
PMMI
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Anyone wishing to keep informed of future meetings on motion control standardization in packaging can e-mail [email protected] or join OMAC directly at www.arcweb.com/omac.
