Controls & Machine Components

Pepsi bottler shares secrets of OEE, Six Sigma, Lean

Pepsi Bottling Ventures boosts uptime, improves OEE scores 21 points, adds more than an hour to daily productivity and covers automation costs in one year in Nampa, Idaho, the project's leader told attendees learned in a packaging session at The Automation Conference.

May 22, 2012

Operational Excellence: Page 79

Material handling

UPS delivers $9 million of flu vaccine to Laos

Walgreens donates 375,000 doses that UPS air-ships more than 9,000 miles in five days through five countries, maintaining mandatory 2° to 8°C temperatures through a range of climates.

May 14, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

‘Playbook’ updates packaging automation specifications

When was the last time you reviewed your packaging machinery automation strategy? A lot has changed in recent years.

May 9, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Live From Interphex: Carton printing track and trace module

The Bosch CPS800 is a carton printing system module, which consists of a print and a camera to automatically print and verify up to 400 cartons per minute. Tracking data is printed onto the product and automatically checked for accuracy by the camera with reads each printed digit. Within milliseconds it compares the human-readable text with the 2D data matrix code and verifies it for accuracy.

May 8, 2012

Material handling

Live From Interphex: New Easy-to-Use Temperature Loggers

Vaisala introduces the Vaisala Cold Chain logger CCL 100. A new logger which records and monitors time and temperature during the transport of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, biologics, and other perishable products. It's thin, and small, and it comes pre-calibrated and programmed. Provides 21 CFR Part 11-compliant records for temperature, relative humidity, differential pressure, level, door switches, and more.

May 8, 2012

Packaging line integration

ACHEMA 2012 provides global technology summit

The 30th world forum of the process industry set for June 18 to 22 at Messe Frankfurt, Germany will showcase pharmaceutical, chemical, and automation systems.

May 4, 2012

Operational Excellence

JETT seeking input on User Requirement Specifications

Two current projects include revising URSs to a new tablular format and developing URSs for serialization.

May 1, 2012

Packaging line integration

Russian packaging fair reflects recovery

International trade fair in Moscow shows packaging growth in Russia, with support from German and Italian machinery suppliers.

April 30, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

An end-to-end solution for track and trace -- fingerprint your brand

Videojet IMprints is a production-floor suite of hardware, software, and services. The system applies unique codes to products and then verifies and tracks them all the way to the intended destination. This brochure provides an overview of track and trace and describes the company’s state-of-the-art IMprints solution.

April 16, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Fingerprint your brand through advanced track and trace technology

Track and trace is crucial today and is becoming a legal requirement in many industries -- especially pharmaceuticals. This Videojet video provides an overview of track and trace issues and describes the company’s state-of-the-art IMprints solution.

April 16, 2012

Operational Excellence

Interphex 2012 from a packaging perspective

More than 650 suppliers and 1,000 product lines will be on display May 1 – 3 at New York’s Javits Center. Here are some of the packaging-related highlights for the event.

April 5, 2012

Protective/transport packaging

Package design helps keep the patient first

Keeping patient safety in the forefront when designing packaging ensures that the drug or compound arrives intact and at optimal efficacy.

March 21, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

Grant issued to study sheep's wool for packaging and shipping vaccines

To combat growing vaccine waste, a U.K. government initiative reportedly will back R&D of sheep's wool packaging for pharmaceuticals.

March 19, 2012