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OMAC standardizes machine states

The PackML “state model,” if widely adopted, promises to optimize line performance and reduce line integration costs through standardization.

OMAC's proposed model for standardizing how packaging equipment shifts into different states.
OMAC's proposed model for standardizing how packaging equipment shifts into different states.

The PackML Team, part of the Open Modular Architecture Controls (OMAC) Packaging Workgroup, has completed Version 2.1 of its so-called state-model specification.

This defines common states of packaging machinery with naming conventions that are independent of underlying network hardware or protocols. PackML refers to OMAC’s proposed “language” of packaging machinery, which can standardize how information is exchanged on a networked packaging line. Such standardization can in turn optimize line performance and reduce line integration and support costs—but only if it’s widely embraced by packaging machinery builders and buyers.

Developed by engineers from Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Hershey, Markem, Bosch Rexroth, ELAU, Rockwell, and Siemens, the state model is a step toward networking packaging lines to optimize performance while reducing engineering costs. End users of packaging machinery on the PackML Team are soliciting packaging machinery manufacturers to comment on the draft and adopt the finalized machine state model.

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