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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.
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.
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
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
Machine Design
One-Minute Survey: Machine Design
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December 10, 2024
Engineering
How Integrated SIS Improves Project Efficiency and More
One more disparate technology can be folded into the automation architecture by introducing integrated safety instrumented systems (SIS).
December 10, 2024
The Power of One: How Integrated SIS Improves Project Efficiency and More
Machine Design
One-Minute Survey: Machine Safety
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December 3, 2024
Business Intelligence
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: What Lies in the Future
PMMI Business Intelligence surveyed pharmaceutical manufacturers in late 2023 and early 2024. The industry faces opportunities and challenges in meeting marketplace demands amid projected growth.
November 19, 2024
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Machine Design
One-Minute Survey: The Biggest Trends in Machine Design
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October 22, 2024
Machine Design
Can PLC programmers learn Python?
As part of our semi-occasional series on incorporating AI into your packaging and processing equipment, this column focuses on how realistic it is for your engineers to learn Python, a key skill in your generative AI journey.
September 15, 2024
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Machine Design
Assessing risk of integrating AI into your equipment
In this semi-occasional column we explore the risks associated with integrating generative AI into your equipment and how to mitigate them. Included is a link to a database of all known risks associated with AI.
August 19, 2024
Robot+ape Train
Machine Design
Embedding AI Language Models in Your Machines
OEMs can introduce AI into their equipment by embedding small language models. They can run directly on a standalone/embedded PC, don’t require an Internet connection, eliminate latency and costs associated with AI. (Updated December 2024.)
August 7, 2024
Working The Phones
OEM Profiles
OEM Profile: Storcan - The Half-Century Evolution of an Integrator
From humble beginnings as a conveying manufacturer, it has become an integrator of complete, innovative, and tailor-made solutions for agri-food, food, and beverage.
August 1, 2024
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Machine Design
Leveraging Generative AI for Packaging Machinery
For CPG customers struggling with declining availability and quality of workforce, OEMs have a unique opportunity to leverage generative AI to solve real customer problems.
July 29, 2024
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Machine Design
Harnessing the Power of AI
Read a transcript of OEM's Harnessing the Power of AI webinar with David McGraw, Senior Director of Alvarez and Marsal. Learn how AI is already utilized in packaging and processing and where it could be applied in the future.
April 24, 2024
Harnessing The Power Of Ai
Automation
Revolutionizing OEM Manufacturing with AI
A historical perspective and current limitations of the game-changing technology.
January 8, 2024
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