This article focuses on upgrading and improving a packing process to comply with current good manufacturing practices. The authors sought to maintain proper quality assurance for finished products.

Harpak-ULMA Packaging, PTC and Rockwell Automation partner to demonstrate the power of augmented reality for human productivity and downtime avoidance BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harpak-ULMA and Rockwell ...

Samsung Electronics is not only the first company in the world to launch a labor-free semiconductor packaging line, but it has also set a goal of converting its packaging plants to be human labor-free ...

Some lessons learned the hard way might help someone who has just received the task of automating or tuning a packaging line and hasn’t had that experience yet. First of all, I would recommend that ...

Overall Equipment Effectiveness has been shown to identify the root cause of inefficiencies. A few years ago, the expectation was that big pharmaceutical companies would become R&D and sales and ...

When John Schaefer Jr. took over as president of Jack Brown Produce Inc. in Alpine Township in 1988, his main goal, he said, was to "simplify the apple packing business." Looking at the new ...

Howell’s integrated packaging line increased throughput and reduced labor costs. By adopting new state-of-the-art processes, Howell Munitions and Technology has grown from producing 400,000 rounds a ...