Digital Transformation

Tootsie Roll Slashes Line Data Analysis Time by 90% with OEE-trained AI Layer

Tech-spotting at PACK EXPO Southeast: The confectionery icon can now query & interrogate its live packaging line OEE data via common language prompts within OEE software by OFS. Also by OFS, this new Mavyn AI layer also interprets data & suggests actions.

March 11, 2025

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Robotics

Workforce Issues Driving Automation and Restraint

According to a Packaging World survey, CPGs are paradoxically either adding or not adding automation and robotics for very similar predictable reasons.

February 5, 2025

Digital Transformation

The Future of Automation Sees Greater Human and Machine Collaboration

At Universal Robot’s Collaborate 2025 event, A3’s Alex Shikany reviewed the current state of the automation market and provided a glimpse of what to expect in the coming year, and beyond.

February 4, 2025

Digital Transformation

Survey: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots to the Rescue?

New research from PMMI Media Group shows an appetite among CPGs for changing the way operators and technicians interact with machines on the plant floor. Is it time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface?

January 31, 2025

Digital Transformation

INX Completes Investment in AssetWatch

INX International Ink Co.

INX International Ink Co.'s investment in AssetWatch aims to enhance operational efficiency and implement its "Plant of the Future" initiative.

January 29, 2025

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

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 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