Packaging means automation
It is very easy to get caught up into your own world when it comes to automation.
Take a look at ISA. Traditionally, the organization dealt with the process side of automation and batch, then it added in factory automation. That is all good because all areas deal with automation.
But when you step outside of what looks like the traditional areas, you truly see what automation is all about. Welcome to Pack Expo in Las Vegas. A busy, bustling show that covers the packaging industry.
Often times the language is different, but the issues are the same. Lean, standardization, product lifecycle management, and increased productivity, it is all there, but maybe a bit disguised with slightly different verbiage.
One area under discussion was the Packaging Execution System (PES).
Traditional MES systems are fine and they provide a supervisory function, but not a vision system, said Charles Turner, director of business development at Systech.
“The packaging industry requires its own system that enhances its overall system,” Turner said. “PES complements the MES.”
The PES offers vision inspection; product line management and serialization, he said. “It also allows information to go up and down through the ERP. With PES (the enterprise) can see through to the packaging arm of manufacturing.”
The system “gives you data that becomes useful, which gives you knowledge and the ability to find solutions to problems in manufacturing,” Turner said.
One more growth area is in the product lifecycle management area.
“People are just now seeing the value in watching the product from beginning to the end,” said Troy Vanderhoof, director of business strategy at Siemens’ newly acquired UGS.
Vanderhoof agreed the growth curve in PLM is just starting as companies recognizing the potential benefits in increased productivity.
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Take a look at ISA. Traditionally, the organization dealt with the process side of automation and batch, then it added in factory automation. That is all good because all areas deal with automation.
But when you step outside of what looks like the traditional areas, you truly see what automation is all about. Welcome to Pack Expo in Las Vegas. A busy, bustling show that covers the packaging industry.
Often times the language is different, but the issues are the same. Lean, standardization, product lifecycle management, and increased productivity, it is all there, but maybe a bit disguised with slightly different verbiage.
One area under discussion was the Packaging Execution System (PES).
Traditional MES systems are fine and they provide a supervisory function, but not a vision system, said Charles Turner, director of business development at Systech.
“The packaging industry requires its own system that enhances its overall system,” Turner said. “PES complements the MES.”
The PES offers vision inspection; product line management and serialization, he said. “It also allows information to go up and down through the ERP. With PES (the enterprise) can see through to the packaging arm of manufacturing.”
The system “gives you data that becomes useful, which gives you knowledge and the ability to find solutions to problems in manufacturing,” Turner said.
One more growth area is in the product lifecycle management area.
“People are just now seeing the value in watching the product from beginning to the end,” said Troy Vanderhoof, director of business strategy at Siemens’ newly acquired UGS.
Vanderhoof agreed the growth curve in PLM is just starting as companies recognizing the potential benefits in increased productivity.
Talk to me.
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