One man's outlook on packaging machinery

Todd Baker, engineering manager at the Liquid Nails Division of AkzoNobel Decorative Paints U.S., shares his thoughts on what to look for in automated packaging machinery.

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PW: What’s out there in the way of packaging machinery developments?

Baker: I see a lot of exciting options out there, partly because some of our equipment is getting fairly dated. One example is in case packers. Ours are semi-automatic, so they don’t really have the kind of diagnostics built in that I’d like to see more of. As things stand now, it’s up to the operators and maintenance technicians to do all the troubleshooting. They have to identify what’s going on with the machine. And the equipment isn’t very flexible, either.

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