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Type: Blog
Section: Issues > Operational excellence
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
Weighing the impact of self-driving vehicles on logistics
While the debate over the pros and cons of self-driving trucks expands, regulations are likely to play a key role in their potential future use.
Operational excellence
First Person: E-commerce lifescience package transportation and testing considerations
Michael Kuebler, Technical Director, Smithers Pira North America, discusses trends and package considerations for life science products transported via e-commerce.
Materials & containers
How an increasingly patient-centric approach is impacting cold chain
The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.
Operational excellence
Spotted at interpack: A 'look' at the future
At the event in Dusseldorf, many companies gave a look at what's to come, including augmented reality (AR) glasses for maintenance and more connected systems for improved OEE.
Operational excellence
Taking Wound Care Cues from Spiders
Is point-of-use nanofiber production the future of wound care? Harvard researchers inch closer to a system that could one day produce sterile bandages in the field.
Operational excellence
5 Tips for making use of big data in healthcare production
PDA Annual Meeting: Pulling big data into insights requires a lot more than IT resources. Experts from Merck and Janssen offer advice on moving from hindsight to foresight.
Materials & containers
Challenges and Benefits of Using ISTA’s Standard 20 for the Development of ISC’s
Standard 2D Revision 2.0 uses a QbD approach to develop insulated shipping containers (ISCs) to meet regulatory expectations.
Coding, printing & labeling
Walmart's tea leaves
Seems like whenever I say anything about Walmart's requirement that only direct-print flexography be used for putting GTIN (Global Trade Identification Number) on corrugated cases of food, feedback comes flooding in.
Sustainability
Five Cold Chain Trends Shaping 2017
Heading into 2016, lifescience cold chain trends to watch included passive vs active bulk shippers and the growth of biologics and biosimilars and the patent cliff. Some of these trends will continue into 2017, but here are five additional trends shaping the lifescience cold chain.
Coding, printing & labeling
Walmart and case coding—an update
When last we left our Walmart friends, they’d summarily issued several requirements regarding which methods of printing would be deemed acceptable where GTIN on cases of food is concerned.
Package Design
Holograms Play Growing Role in Track and Trace Packaging
The technology can incorporate various data forms and product tracking information, as well as link on-pack product identification with supply chain management, market enforcement and forensic support services.
Operational excellence
FMOT to ZMOT to PMOT
People outside packaging are often stunned when told that in traditional manufacturing of food and other CPG products that are destined for “traditional” retail sales, the store—not the final user—is the real customer.
Primary packaging
Medical device packaging standards expanding globally
Standards aim to help manufacturers engineer devices to ensure safety and establish traceability ‘from womb to tomb.’ India and emerging markets may develop their own country-specific standards.
Operational excellence
New trends in shipping and transportation: what you need to consider
Over my 33 years of packaging experience, I have seen many changes in packaging.
Operational excellence
Packaging value chains
As educators of tomorrow’s packaging professionals, we embrace a holistic approach to innovation that considers the entire value chain, from raw materials to end users.
Operational excellence
Private label packaging: Evolved but under-appreciated
Many private label products project a friendly, comforting, sometimes lighthearted presence through alluring multicolor graphics.
Package Design
Temperature-Controlled Packaging Demands Out-of-the-Box Thinking
Highly engineered and innovatively designed temperature-controlled packaging is necessary to gain the greatest cost benefit without compromising patient safety.
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