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Benefits statement from Make2Pack

Make2Pack--a joint working group of the World Batch Forum, the OMAC Packaging Workgroup, and the ISA SP88 committee--recently composed a “Statement-of-Standards-Benefits” document that is intended to clarify the key benefits to be gained in the manufacturing space should certain standards be accepted and applied across both processing and packaging applications.

Since the ongoing work of the Make2Pack initiative is bound to have a powerful impact on packaging machinery building and specifying in the future, we reprint the document here:

Today’s Problem Statement:

Barriers exist between information systems used to manage a business and the automation systems required to run manufacturing. In today’s environment overcoming these barriers is very costly and very difficult to maintain, to the point that much of the data and information is still moved manually. Those who chose to integrate their dissimilar automation systems find that it requires costly internal standardization, which reduces choice and limits options. These barriers also exist at the horizontal level between manufacturing components that again require significant effort to overcome.

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