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Packaging OMAC group rolls up sleeves

The OMAC Motion for Packaging Working Group met in Chicago in March to hammer out an official mission and articulate four key goals for the group. The OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) working group consists of end-users, packaging machinery builders and controls suppliers seeking to increase commonality and simplification among today’s complex motion controls in packaging machinery.

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Led by group leader Keith Campbell, Hershey Foods’ director of automation and integration, the group has crafted the following mission statement: “To enhance the value of packaging machinery and systems . . . by promoting the use of digital motion control and OMAC guidelines for open control architectures.”

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