"Change, Innovation, and Sustainability" |
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THE CONFERENCE AT PACK EXPO PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE |
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Monday, November 10, 2008 |
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CONTAINERS & MATERIALS |
UPGRADING OPERATIONS |
SUSTAINABILITY |
BRAND PROTECTION |
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8:30 - 9:10am |
EZPeel: A Revolutionary Steel Food Can Closure System |
Pouch Packaging 2018: What's Next? |
Conservation - The First Step to Sustainability |
Packaging HACCP - Food Companies' New Expectations for the Packaging Supply Chain |
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9:20 - 10:00am |
CCMA: The Innovation of New Product Development |
Packaging Operational Efficiencies Depend Upon Bridging the Mechatronics Skills Gap |
The United Kingdom's Packaging Sustainability Efforts |
The Economics of Deploying State-of-the-Art Contaminant Detection - Spend a Little, Save a Lot |
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Keynote |
More Safety vs. Less Material? Where Does Packaging Go? Betsy Cohen, VP, Sustainability, Nestle |
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11:00 - 11:40am |
To Be Announced |
Advanced Aseptic Processing: The Next Step in the Evolution of Aseptic Pharmaceutical Production |
A Brilliant Partnership: Color, Energy & Material |
Anti-Counterfeit Packaging Strategy: Aligning Actions with the Type of Counterfeiters and Counterfeiting |
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11:50am - 12:30pm |
CCMA - Key Industry Trends & Innovation |
Packaging Execution Systems (PES): An Absolute Necessity |
Sustainability: What Brand Owners Expect from Their Packaging Suppliers |
IP Issues with Packaging |
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12:40 - 1:20pm |
Enhancing Your Anti-Counterfeiting Arsenal |
Variable Frequency Metal Detection Technology |
OEM Perspectives on Innovation & Sustainability |
Unit Serialization in Production |
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Keynote Room |
PMT Magazine presents the 2008 Packaging Line of the Year | ||||
Description: Coming soon
Description: Ball Corporation's EZPeel is a new multi-layer film closure system for steel food cans. Ball developed this innovation using its proprietary process for joining plastic and metal. EZPeel is designed to improve ease of use, convenience and safety for consumers; the ends incorporate an easy-to-grasp, flexible pull tab, and Ball's joining technology, eliminates the sharp edges of traditional food can closure systems. Ball also designed to product so that it can be manufactured, processed and transported using existing equipment and infrastructure. This presentation will address specific package attributes, technology, performance and consumer appeal measured through proprietary research.
Description: Innovation and Speed: Historically, new product development has been one of creation rather than innovation, but true innovation requires a change to this approach. Creating new products that are better performing, lower cost and aesthetically pleasing, all in the quickest possible timelines are a few of the challenges we face today. The keys to developing the best new products in the shortest timeframes lie in the process itself. Reviewed is an overview of the emerging field of Advanced Predictive Engineering and its influence on the process of product lifecycle management with sophisticated analysis, modeling and programming techniques.
Description: Most pour feature applications on plastic bottles require the assembly of a secondary component that provides flow or dispensing control. These separately attached features can also provide drain back and "drip-less" capabilities as well. With sustainability initiatives at the forefront of bottle design, innovations are needed to combine these separate pour features into the bottle design so that the bottle and pour feature become one vs. two separately molded and subsequently attached components. Amcor has developed several one-piece pour spout bottle designs. Several of these improve the pouring and dispensing capabilities of given powders and liquids, while another highly innovative concept actually provides drain back and "drip-less" capabilities as well. These new innovative designs mean that only one polymer is used and require no special segregation during reclaim and recycling. This capability makes them highly attractive for use in our sustainability-focused world of today.
Description: Rexam unveils its latest thinking around key industry trends and innovations.
"Our worldwide success rests upon the success of our customers and we accomplish this through continual innovation and the anticipation and understanding of consumer trends," says Divisional MD Robert Brands. "As a result, Rexam's packaging solutions communicate quality, reliability, precision and creativity."
Description: Coming soon
Description: The adoption of Lean Principles has spread beyond the discrete industries and is rapidly permeating the pharmaceutical industry. Specifically, a large emphasis is being placed on the efficiency of packaging operations in the pharmaceutical industry. Manufacturers must turn to packaging execution system (PES) architectures that focus specifically on packaging operations. PES seamlessly integrates critical packaging line information functions: inspection, line management, serialization, performance measurement and ERP connectivity. There is data generated by packaging operations that goes nowhere. Companies may be adding new systems to generate and manage that data and PES allows management to use that information to improve operations.
Note: This discussion will be non-vendor specific. It will be an educational session that emphasizes the business and technical aspects of PES that is tailored to the expertise of attendees. Systech will stress how important it is for manufacturers to have a sustainable infrastructure in place to optimize packaging operations.
Description: As food safety, due diligence and HACCP considerations drive continued interest in metal detectors for the food industry-as seen in WalMart's adoption of a global food safety standard. It's no secret that the underlying technology of metal detection is somewhat mature, common across all manufacturers and gaining from only incremental improvements as new models are introduced. In 2007, however, this cozy world was turned upside down by the introduction of "variable frequency" metal detectors-arguably the single most important development in this industry in 30 years and representing the "Holy grail" in metal detection. So what is "variable frequency" and how does it really impact my operation, or does it?
Description: The conservation of raw materials leads directly to sustainability by reducing what you need and what you discard. It also sends cost savings straight to the bottom line. Avomex, the largest producer of guacamole in the United States, reaped these benefits when they switched from pre-print to a generic case printing program. By substantially reducing inventory, shipping expense, material scrap, and case obsolescence, they have dramatically reduced operating costs. Using Avomex as a case study, this presentation details the environmental and financial savings they have experienced in the first year of operating a generic case printing program for their secondary package marking.
Description: With the support of the British Government, packagers in the United Kingdom are taking a leadership position in sustainability with efforts to monitor and reduce pack weight and carbon footprint. Large Supermarkets such as Tesco are already actively labeling their products with carbon footprint data. Dairies in the U.K. have turned to induction sealing to improve sustainability. This year more than 2 billion dairy containers and closures with induction seals will utilize less plastic effectively reducing their pack weight and carbon footprint. This paper will review current sustainability trends in the U.K. and their impact on global packaging strategies.
Description: Ampacet views the sustainable packaging challenge as an opportunity to create brilliant packaging solutions. Of the thousands of packages on the shelves, what are the cues that prompt the buyer to select one package over another?
Reach your target audience by understanding how socio-economic conditions influence consumers' preferences for color, design and sustainability. Ampacet offers plastic packaging designers and manufacturers the solutions they need to develop truly brilliant sustainable packaging-less material usage, lower energy needs, more efficient production and greatest package appeal.
Description: The presentation will examine three perspectives on the influence of change, innovation, and sustainability for OEMs in the Packaging industry. Core themes such as understanding market trends, competitive/customer pressures, and continuous improvement initiatives provide continual challenges for the packaging OEMs as a whole. Real-world OEM examples will be given to illustrate what some are doing to succeed in managing change, innovation, and sustainability in today's market.
Description: Food safety had always been at the forefront of brand owners and ingredient suppliers' minds. The Food Safety Alliance for Packaging Materials was formed by many of the biggest food CPGs in the world with one mission in mind: to educate packaging suppliers on the effects of food safety and to give them resources on how to protect themselves and the consumer from the potential consequences of a food safety issue. Many known case studies and brand ties are shown to bring up the awareness. Great references are available on presenter and materials. High-energy presentation.
Description: Justifying capital investment in food safety and inspection technology can be difficult. The costs are clear, but the benefits are a challenge to monetize. In today's financial climate, food producers are looking for payback in two years or less.
This paper will review the common contaminants detected by metal detectors and X-ray systems, providing insight into possible sources of contaminants. The two technologies and investment levels will be compared. Sample prices and estimates for Total Cost of Ownership (TOC) will be presented, along with real- and opportunity-cost estimates. Payback illustrations will include costs for re-screening, rework, scrap and returns. Examples will demonstrate the negative PR and legal action that results when a contaminant gets to the market. Finally, 2008 U.S. tax ramifications will be explored and a sample payback spreadsheet will be distributed.
Description: The brand owners are asking about the overall strategy not behind the package components but behind the counterfeiting and the counterfeiters.
Beyond the concepts of "counterfeit-evident" and "counterfeit-resistant" strategies, the presentation expands beyond the packaging technology expertise to leverage MSU Faculty expert insight in tangent areas and focuses on the results from the Packaging for Food and Product Protection (P-FAPP) Initiative. Content will include a "Type of Counterfeiters" and a "Motivations for Counterfeiting" matrix, which are correlated with criminal justice concepts such as "the crime triangle" and "situational crime prevention." Specifically, RFID is analyzed as an anti-counterfeit measure.
Description: Innovation is the process of technical improvement, and intellectual property (IP) is the product of innovation. Many companies use intellectual property not only defensively to protect others from copying, but in more sophisticated ways to further their business goals. As explained in this presentation, an IP strategy is a set of goals for the acquisition, protection, leveraging and management of a company's IP, and a plan to implement those goals. A discussion of IP strategy for packaging companies will be based on Ed's experience as the (former) chief IP counsel for the Coca-Cola Company and Hal's IP experience representing packaging companies.
Description: In today’s competitive atmosphere, in an industry with overcapacity and small profit margins, manufacturers of folding cartons are coming to one simple fact. In order to be profitable, they must be either one or both of the following: be the low-cost producer (LCP) or a high value-added producer (HV-AP), or they will not survive. This discussion will address the following topics: why CP groups are sick of “me, too†bids; studies show companies who do not run efficient business for “commodity-type†cartons are not profitable and will either disappear or be acquired; companies who “run in the middle†(not LCP or HV-AP) are not profitable; companies who are LCP are profitable; companies who are HV-AP are profitable; and how to exploit today’s printing and converting technologies to fit in one or both groups. This seminar will be interesting, challenging and thought-provoking.
Description: Selecting and implementing an ERP/MIS system in a packaging environment is a large undertaking that can drive substantial benefits such as streamlining business operations, responding more rapidly to customer needs and providing immediate access to critical business information. In this informative session an ERP/MIS systems expert, with extensive experience in the packaging segment will provide an overview of ERP/MIS solutions for packaging. The benefits that can be achieved, and what to look for when considering a system, will also be covered.
Description: The latest trends and technological advancement in the field of automated proofreading will be explored, along with guidelines on how to automate and secure the printing workflow process. We realize that there is a battle with tight customer deadlines, cost-effectiveness and print perfection in this industry. Methods for automating and securing the entire workflow process can help companies save millions of dollars, increase productivity and protect themselves from major errors.
Predictive Maintenance: A New Tool for the Converting Industry
PANEL: Dr. L. Fenney, CEO, Sigmala Ltd; Mr. J. Round, Director, Sigmala Ltd; Dr. D. Brown, Reader, Institute of Industrial Research
MODERATOR: Ms. Yolanda Simonsis, Editor, Paper, Film & Foil Converter
Description: Downtime is the enemy in converting. New artificial intelligence methods have been developed at the Portsmouth Institute of Industrial Research which allow large amounts of machine data to be accurately processed in real-time. This allows true predictive diagnostic and predictive maintenance functions to be successfully implemented in converting machinery.