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Automation
Industry 4.0 Automation Platform Elevates Client Efficiency
Impack overhauled its automation platform using B&R tools to meet the demands of modern packaging applications, boosting speed, flexibility, and support across its folder-gluer peripherals.
August 12, 2025
Frédéric Boyadjian, head of automation, and Cédric Gaudreault, automation designer, fine-tune the settings of Impack’s new automation app on a GenieCut.
Automation
Addressing Workforce Gaps, Increasing End-of-Line Output
An integrator turned to modular robotic palletizing cells to address labor challenges and boost productivity.
August 8, 2025
FOCUS Integration provides custom solutions, focusing on two core modular systems that provide manufacturers with proven palletizing solutions.
Workforce
Managing Service Technicians in High-Risk Regions
PMMI Quickie Survey reveals the ways OEMs offer support to customers in dangerous locales, without putting service techs at risk.
August 7, 2025
The need for on-the-ground technical support in high-risk regions is just as critical as it is in more stable regions.
Operations & IT
How OEMs Are—and Aren't—Benefiting from ERPs
According to a PMMI Quickie Survey, the current use of ERP systems in packaging and processing still has room to grow before OEMs reap the full benefits.
August 5, 2025
There are few consistencies among OEM ERP usage.
Automation
A Two-pronged Path to Resilient Manufacturing
Schneider Electric
A future-ready packaging and processing industry requires integrated operations and solutions for the workforce crisis.
July 31, 2025
Modicon IIoT-native PLCs manage complex interfaces, with embedded functional safety and cybersecurity.
OEM Profiles
From Lumber to Food: A Legacy of Drying Innovation
Nyle Dehydrators took a unique path towards becoming a manufacturer of energy-efficient food dehydration systems.
July 22, 2025
Nyle Systems was established in Brewer, Maine, over 40 years ago, initially specializing in energy-efficient technologies for lumber drying.
Operations & IT
Three Keys to Bring Equipment Online Rapidly & Efficiently
PMMI white paper presents a three-phase framework for building packaging line readiness, providing a roadmap to smarter, smoother startups.
July 2, 2025
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OEM Profiles
OEM Profile: MAP Put Orics on the Map
Orics Industries was a pioneer in MAP just as it began to take off. Now it builds equipment for businesses, including everything from produce to meat to dairy to orthopedic implants.
June 24, 2025
Ori Cohen, president and founder of Orics Industries, is shown here in the firm’s 40,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Automation
AI in Manufacturing: Bridging Innovation & Operational Challenges
Despite growing optimism about GenAI’s potential, a new report shines a spotlight on several significant challenges manufacturers must address.
April 30, 2025
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Machine Design
Controls Architecture Ready to Scale with Machine as Disruptive Tech Emerges
When JOA began looking to develop a never-before-seen dry molded fiber converting machine and platform, it found the technological capability and know-how with Bosch Rexroth’s ctrlX Automation toolkit.
April 22, 2025
The platform’s dedicated control, ctrlX Core, uses the Linux-based ctrlX OS, which serves as the framework of the uniquely modular, app-based architecture.
Machine Design
PMMI ELC: CPGs & OEMs Must Partner to Navigate Sustainability
A customer panel at PMMI’s ELC addressed their expectations for sustainability from machinery and materials suppliers while also weighing the pending impact of EPR.
April 21, 2025
PMMI VP Tom Egan led a CPG Sustainability Panel at PMMI's ELC, with from left Michael Collins, vice president of Sales and marketing for Sterling Contract Packaging, Inc.; Jim Prunesti, Senior VP of Engineering from ConAgra Brands; Matt Reynolds, Chief Editor, Packaging World magazine and Laura Shimmin, Associate Director of Packaging R&D at Mars Wrigley.
OEM Profiles
OEM Profile: CRG Automation - A Company Made for Builders
CRG Automation focuses on simplifying the complex, leading to best-in-class results on the production floor and enduring customer relationships.
April 16, 2025
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Automation
Community Poll: Importance of Connected Worker Technology
Learn where your peers stand on the importance of utilizing connected worker technology to address labor shortages and improve efficiency.
March 24, 2025
Automation
ISO Publishes New Industrial Robot Safety Standards
The new ISO 10218 Parts 1 and 2 are considered a major advancement in industrial robot safety standards.
February 17, 2025
Updated ISO 10218: Major Advancements in Industrial Robot Safety Standards Now Available
Automation
Automation Unscrambles Bottling Chaos
Pace Packaging harnessed flexible automation in a versatile robotic unscrambling and orienting solution that delivers industry-leading throughput in an ultra-compact machine footprint.
February 11, 2025
Overhead view of the patent-pending in-motion vacuum transfer system feature on the VersaSort.
Automation
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
Annual Outlook Report - Automation and Robotics
Automation
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
Alex Shikany, EVP of A3 – Association for Advancing Automation
Automation
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
Packaging Equipment AI Copilot Assistant
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