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Hershey reveals new direction on controls

“We invested heavily in controls technology, but in the last few years we’ve changed directions because in too many cases the technologies we implemented were complicating, not simplifying, our packaging operations.”

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So says Wade Latz, senior director of global operations engineering at The Hershey Company, Hershey, PA. Latz and his Hershey colleague, Joe Wagner, manager of the controls engineering department for global operations engineering, will be among the speakers at the May 24 Packaging Automation Forum—Driving Profit Through Controls and Information Technology, sponsored by Packaging World and Automation World magazines.

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