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Packaging Robotics Playbook

This new playbook from Packaging World showcases the trends, case studies, and how-to tips to help you make the best possible robot purchasing and application decisions for your operation.

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OMAC To Develop Remote Interface Guidelines

Bosch’s new ‘Manufacture #LikeABosch’ campaign playfully shows how digitalization is improving production and logistics.

Bosch Updates Industry 4.0 Software to Digitalize Manufacturing

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Closing the Loop Between CAD, PLM, Digital Twins, and the Cloud

Software as a Service Enters Engineering and Manufacturing Circles

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PLCs Gain Esteem as the Brains Behind the Machine

Next-generation controllers are offering multifunctional automation with more intelligence and connectivity, opening the door to new opportunity for machine builders.

FDT IIoT Server (FITS) Architecture

FDT Group Releases Data Exchange Standard for Next-Gen Automation

The new FDT 3.0 standard and developer toolkits are secure, scalable and platform-independent, enabling remote access to device and network data across the enterprise without PLC/DCS host intervention.

Bosch Rexroth’s ctrlX Automation platform features open software architecture, a wide choice of programming language options, and app-based functionality.

Bosch Rexroth Reinvents Automation

The automation supplier went back to the drawing board to create ctrlX Automation, a software-driven open automation platform that provides flexibility and scalability through app-based functionality.

Swift 1011 Universal Bridge

Power Over Ethernet Bridge Withstands Washdowns and Wet Manufacturing Processes

Eliminates the need for additional hardwiring

The wearable Kinexon SafeTag warns the user, audibly and visually, when the physical distance with another employee has been compromised.

Technology Steps Forward for Social Distancing

As more manufacturers are allowed to resume production amid the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping their workers distanced will be key to keeping them healthy. Here are some innovations to help achieve that.

Craig Bergset joins the South African team as a Regional Sales Manager

BW Flexible Systems Establishes Sales and Support Office in South Africa

Craig Bergset and Andre Systermans join the local team to serve customers in the region.

Image-based scanners are displacing standard laser scanners, providing the capability to read 2D barcodes, which can be much smaller than traditional barcodes. Photo courtesy of Cognex.

New Technologies Feed the Hunger for Information

Trying to keep up with productivity, quality, safety, sustainability, and other industry demands, food and beverage plants are turning increasingly to the innovations found in today’s sensor instrumentation.

IO-Link Connects the Food and Beverage Industry

The proliferation of digital protocols has made it easier for producers to get the information they need from their instrumentation. Sensor suppliers explain why IO-Link is gaining particular traction.

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Flexible Filler/Capper for Vials and Small Bottles

ESS announces the FC Series flexible filler/capper for vials and small bottles. Model FC60 handles up to 60 vials/min and Model FC120 fills 120 vials/min.

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Food Processing and Packaging Industry Turns to Remote Access and Virtual Factory Acceptance Tests

OpX Leadership network takes a key role in preparing CPGs and OEMs for life after Covid-19 with tools on Remote Access and Virtual FATs.

Syntegon Virtuelle Messe

Syntegon Unveils Sustainable, Intelligent Machine Design

Following a major corporate rebranding, the food and pharma packaging OEM launches its first virtual show as a platform to introduce new products and interact with customers.

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COVID-19 Brings Increased Visibility to the Role of Robotics

Presidents and CEOs of Fanuc, Universal Robots, Fetch, and Schunk discuss how robotics and automation are helping manufacturers through the pandemic and what the lasting effects might be.

Smarter Food Safety

FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety

The agency’s vision is based on three fundamental tenets: It must be people-led; it should be FSMA-based; and solutions should be technology-enabled.

Syntegon Technology offers various remote services with secure remote access, including online operator training and the E-portal for easy spare parts ordering.

Syntegon Technology Services at the Virtual Show 2020

The company debuts new digital solutions for pharma and food, sustainability as a service focus for food manufacturers, and remote Service—from machine support to platforms for spare parts management and training.

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Autonomous Bin Picking and Placing Moves Cobots Into Machine Tending

Universal Robots’ ActiNav is a UR+ application kit that not only picks parts from bins, but is able to precisely place that part into a machine for further processing.

PACK EXPO Rewind: Risk Assessment

Hear PMMI’s Bruce Main, Safety Expert and Technical Advisor, and Sean Riley, Senior Director of Media & Industry Communications discussion of risk assessment at PACK EXPO East earlier this month.

The complex structure of Roche’s cobas plasma separation card consists of a carrier layer with a bonded nonwoven fabric and an upper layer for protection and labeling.

Flexible Production Makes Roche’s HIV Test Innovation a Success

Roche designed a plasma separation card that greatly simplifies blood sampling and transport. Beckhoff Automation made production of the card cost-effective with its flexible, compact eXtended Transport System.

Vorne announces new version of its XL Platform at PACK EXPO East

OEE Simplicity

Vorne unveils a new version of its XL Productivity Appliance, adding automated alerts and labor tracking to its visual display scoreboard and dashboards.

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All-Fill Finds Much-Needed Flexibility with Dynamic Conveyor

The DynaClean hygienic conveyor uses a plastic modular design that can be reconfigured on the fly.

Peter Zornio of Emerson Automation Solutions sets the scene for the day's digital transformation discussions between CPG manufacturers and OEMs.

CPG Manufacturers and OEMs Collaborate on Digital Transformation

In a meeting co-hosted by PMMI’s OpX Leadership Network and Industry Relations Committee, manufacturers and machine builders shared their plans and concerns about IIoT in a discussion aimed at creating a digital transformation roadmap for PMMI members.

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Tools to Help the Digital Transformation

Inductive Automation rolled out enhancements to its Ignition Edge industrial application platform and new partner and development communities that will help turn data into actionable information.

The Yale robotic reach truck claimed first place in the AGV category, and the Yale Vision telemetry solution won first prize in the maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) category.

Yale Robotic Reach Truck, Telemetry win Products of the Year

Products designed for growing inventories in vertical storage facilities, and to optimize maintenance operations.