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Unlocking plant-floor packaging data at Unilever

Accurate, timely information on which to make business decisions is already on the packaging floor, according to Unilever’s Andrew McDonald (left), global automation and control manager.

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The trick is to access the data and convert it into useful information. How? Standards.

Unilever claims it has already reaped many benefits from the S88.01 batch control standard in its processing operations. It is currently contributing to the development and testing of PackML, an emerging packaging machine language standard that promises to simplify packaging line integration.

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