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.

To find out what could go wrong and how to prevent it, we talked to a systems integrator, a packaging engineer, a third-party logistics (3PL) company executive, and a manufacturer of packaging ...

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 ...

In the “Automate the Freight” series, I’ve concentrated on stories that reflect my premise that the killer app for self-driving vehicles will not be private passenger cars, but will more likely be the ...

Each year, manufacturers lose thousands of dollars to waste. Every plant or line manager knows the usual suspects: unplanned line downtime, material waste, overproduction, quality-related losses, and ...

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 ...