Digital Transformation

Top Articles of 2024, #20: Sunrise 2027

The #20 most clicked article of 2024: The GTIN 1D barcode has worked for 50 years, making packaging go 'beep' at checkout. Poised to take its place is a more capable, internet connected 2D code representation of a GS1 standard URL called Digital Link.

December 17, 2024

Digital Transformation

Podcasts

PODCAST: Generative AI for Packaging & Processing Machinery

Listen to an OEM Magazine-inspired AI-generated podcast on some fundamental ways to incorporate generative AI into packaging and processing machinery.

December 16, 2024

Digital Transformation

Rockwell Automation Taps Generative AI

A small language model (SLM) AI integration with Rockwell's Design Studio develops patterns, writes ladder logic & inputs parameters around processes like filling or case packing. Operators interact with, refine and add smart objects to improve processes.

December 3, 2024

Digital Transformation

10 Quotes Worth Sharing from the Smart Packaging Congress

Hear what presenters at the AIPIA & AWA Smart Packaging Congress had to say about QR codes, NFC for pharma packaging, AI for package design, 2D barcodes, and more.

November 27, 2024

Contract Packaging

Century-old CM/CPs Portland Bottling, Richmond Baking, Boost Ops with ERP

Live at Automation Fair were two recent packaging-centric examples of co-man/co-packs taking the ERP plunge with Rockwell's Plex. Both projects, integrated by Revolution Group, are ongoing and continue to add efficiencies and features through today.

November 20, 2024

Digital Transformation

Nvidia's Rev Lebaredian Ushers AI into Industrial Automation with Rockwell

As AI reshapes wider industrial automation and packaging specifically, Rockwell and Nvidia have partnered to pioneer integration between advanced computing and real-world applications, transforming manufacturing processes and workforce dynamics.

November 20, 2024

Digital Transformation

AI Integration for Danone’s Factory Automation Data Management Tool?

Live at Automation Fair: Danone's Jerel Williams & Juan Lua use Rockwell's FactoryTalk AssetCentre for managing industrial automation data across packaging ops. They love it, and explain what works well and how a potential AI integration might improve it.

November 19, 2024

Digital Transformation

Digital Display Labels Set to Transform the Clinical Supply Chain

At the AIPIA & AWA Smart Packaging Congress, Merck and Johnson & Johnson discuss digital display labels, a promising technology poised to enhance clinical supply chains.

November 19, 2024

Digital Transformation

Unilever Optimizes Hellmann’s Mayo Fill Levels with AI-based Predictive Analytics

Live from Automation Fair: Unilever addressed mayonnaise fill level inconsistencies using Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk LogixAI, enhancing efficiency and reducing overfill giveaway through predictive analytics.

November 18, 2024

Digital Transformation

Paperization Extends to Smart Packaging

At the AIPIA & AWA Smart Packaging World Congress in Amsterdam, PulpaTronics shares details on its new technology, which enables fully recyclable, paper-based RFID tags.

November 18, 2024

Podcasts

unPACKed podcast: Practical Steps to Implement AI

Listen as AI industry expert Carol Reiley offers real-world use cases for the latest innovations in AI, including how to incorporate it into your operation.

November 15, 2024

Filling, Capping & Closing

Robots Fill, Mix, and Cap Personalized Skincare Bottles in Mass Customization Play

Cosmetics and nutraceuticals, like this skincare line, are at the leading edge of hyper-personalization and batch-size-one packaging. SmartSKN is an interesting example using AI-driven data and inventory management to achieve mass packaging customization.

October 28, 2024

Recycling

Column: Can Optical AI Help Revive Undersubscribed Recycling Systems?

U.S. recycling habits are suboptimal to say the least, and brands are getting tight-lipped about their sustainability efforts for fear of being accused of greenwashing given so little material gets recycled. Can vastly improved sortation help the streams?

October 7, 2024