Digital Transformation

Manufacturing Cybersecurity: Critical Components for Risk Assessment

By the second quarter of 2020, cyberattacks targeting manufacturers accounted for 33% of all incidents across all industries with losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Small businesses are also at risk.

March 28, 2021

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Operational Excellence

Pet Food Packagers Weigh In On Top Issue: Sustainability

Packaging World

Recently one of our content strategists chatted by phone with key players in the pet food marketplace. Their discussions really helped shed light on current trends affecting pet food processors and packaging professionals, sustainability taking top spot.

March 29, 2021

Operational Excellence

OMAC Helps Manufacturers Share Best Practices

OMAC

“When manufacturers come together and share best practices, the whole industry benefits,” says Bryan Griffen of PMMI. New OMAC website encourages and promotes your involvement.

March 25, 2021

Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging/Customer Relationships: Is Confidentiality Attainable?

When it comes to confidentiality, we all seem to align to the need to protect information that is exchanged between contract packagers/manufacturers and their customers. But perhaps we should be open to just how we protect information.

March 25, 2021

Podcasts

Know Before You Fail: Avoid Costly Downtime with Predictive Maintenance

unPACKed with PMMI tackles obvious predictive maintenance benefits: reduced downtime and increased machine lifetime.

March 25, 2021

Operational Excellence

Cannabis Consumer Purchase Behavior: Buying Trends

Consumers trend toward similar combinations of products when purchasing a basket, but the majority of flower consumers prefer to buy only flower.

March 24, 2021

Operational Excellence

The Consumer Behavior of Plastics and Recycling in America

How consumers perceive a company may have a lot to do with its plastics and recycling initiatives. And enticing the consumer to fulfill their end of the recycling cycle may inevitably fall back on the brand.

March 22, 2021

Operational Excellence

ISTA Forum Focuses on Packaging for Transport, and Temp Controlled Packaging

International Safe Transit Association (ISTA)

The 2021 Virtual ISTA Forum, including TransPack and TempPack, will be held on Tuesday, March 30th and Wednesday, March 31st.

March 22, 2021

Podcasts

5-Minute Listen: BumbleBee Packaging Design Shift Captures Market Share

In this 5-minute listen, BumbleBee Seafoods President and CEO Jan Tharp tells us how the company handled a total branding shift, including a packaging redesign meant to make the products more relevant on the shelf and appeal to higher end sensibilities.

March 22, 2021

Operational Excellence

Virtual FATs Here to Stay

The COVID pandemic has turned virtual factory acceptance tests into an accepted method of testing which is now here to stay.

March 18, 2021

Operational Excellence

Predictive Maintenance: A Tale of Two Technologies

Both smart sensors and software are key to a successful predictive maintenance solution, and finding a business model that benefits end users and OEMs is also key.

March 17, 2021

Operational Excellence

Editor Show Picks--The Best of PACK EXPO Connects

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies

Available for only two more weeks, here are short clips from our editors discussing their personal picks from last Fall's PACK EXPO Connects. Make plans to be back live in Vegas this September.

March 17, 2021

Operational Excellence

How does Your Salary Compare?

Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP)

Are you among top earners or are you sorely in need of a raise? Calling for industry-wide response to annual salary survey conducted by IoPP and covered in Packaging World Magazine.

March 12, 2021