Digital Transformation

AI is Transforming Packaging Manufacturing

AI is driving advancements in packaging efficiency with applications in areas like predictive demand forecasting, smart packaging design, and AI-powered robotics for smart factories.

January 14, 2025

Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation

JR Automation Unveils a Comprehensive Website Redesign

JR Automation

JR Automation has updated its website to better represent its global reach and diverse range of manufacturing automation capabilities.

January 14, 2025

Digital Transformation

Top Articles of 2024, #20: Sunrise 2027

The #20 most clicked article of 2024: The GTIN 1D barcode has worked for 50 years, making packaging go 'beep' at checkout. Poised to take its place is a more capable, internet connected 2D code representation of a GS1 standard URL called Digital Link.

December 17, 2024

Podcasts

PODCAST: Generative AI for Packaging & Processing Machinery

Listen to an OEM Magazine-inspired AI-generated podcast on some fundamental ways to incorporate generative AI into packaging and processing machinery.

December 16, 2024

Digital Transformation

One-Minute Survey: AI in Packaging Operations

What's on your mind? Please answer a few quick questions to tell us more about what you want to see in Packaging World.

December 10, 2024

Digital Transformation

Rockwell Automation Taps Generative AI

A small language model (SLM) AI integration with Rockwell's Design Studio develops patterns, writes ladder logic & inputs parameters around processes like filling or case packing. Operators interact with, refine and add smart objects to improve processes.

December 3, 2024

Digital Transformation

10 Quotes Worth Sharing from the Smart Packaging Congress

Hear what presenters at the AIPIA & AWA Smart Packaging Congress had to say about QR codes, NFC for pharma packaging, AI for package design, 2D barcodes, and more.

November 27, 2024

Digital Transformation

Survey: Adding AI chat to Packaging and Processing Machinery

What if your packaging and processing equipment had an AI-powered chat assistant? A ChatGPT-style interace could guide operators, making it easier to troubleshoot problems and reduce downtime. Share your insights.

November 25, 2024

Contract Packaging

Century-old CM/CPs Portland Bottling, Richmond Baking, Boost Ops with ERP

Live at Automation Fair were two recent packaging-centric examples of co-man/co-packs taking the ERP plunge with Rockwell's Plex. Both projects, integrated by Revolution Group, are ongoing and continue to add efficiencies and features through today.

November 20, 2024

Digital Transformation

Nvidia's Rev Lebaredian Ushers AI into Industrial Automation with Rockwell

As AI reshapes wider industrial automation and packaging specifically, Rockwell and Nvidia have partnered to pioneer integration between advanced computing and real-world applications, transforming manufacturing processes and workforce dynamics.

November 20, 2024

Digital Transformation

AI Integration for Danone’s Factory Automation Data Management Tool?

Live at Automation Fair: Danone's Jerel Williams & Juan Lua use Rockwell's FactoryTalk AssetCentre for managing industrial automation data across packaging ops. They love it, and explain what works well and how a potential AI integration might improve it.

November 19, 2024

Digital Transformation

Digital Display Labels Set to Transform the Clinical Supply Chain

At the AIPIA & AWA Smart Packaging Congress, Merck and Johnson & Johnson discuss digital display labels, a promising technology poised to enhance clinical supply chains.

November 19, 2024

Digital Transformation

Unilever Optimizes Hellmann’s Mayo Fill Levels with AI-based Predictive Analytics

Live from Automation Fair: Unilever addressed mayonnaise fill level inconsistencies using Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk LogixAI, enhancing efficiency and reducing overfill giveaway through predictive analytics.

November 18, 2024