OMAC
Promised Interoperability- Automation engineer Robert Martell
knows the value of standards in his work in pharmaceutical packaging at Pfizer,
Inc.(www.pfizer.com).Unlike his colleagues in food and consumer goods packaging,
his industry faces the additional requirement of validating packaging machinery
to meet FDA guidelines for current good manufacturing practices. “The final cost
of the effort to validate a system is really shaped back in the design phase,”
Martell says. “A well-documented, modular design approach, followed through on
the physical equipment as well as the controls, hardware, and software, lays the
groundwork that really can streamline the validation process.”
Packaging Standards
Gain Momentum- End users of packaging equipment,
regardless of their industry, have several interests in common: lower software
integration costs, reusability and portability of code, ways to reduce the
software learning curve for both engineers and technicians, and connectivity to
drive and factory data networks. The Packaging Industries Working Group of OMAC
(Open Modular Architecture Controls,www.omac.org) User Groups says IEC 61131-3
can help .It ’s a standard for programmable controller programming languages for
packaging machinery, and earlier this year, the PackSoft Subcommittee of the
OMAC Packaging Workgroup endorsed it.
The
Heavenly Packaging Machine- When
packages can ’t take a beating, profits do. So it was for Peabody, MA-based
mail-order operation Christian Book Distributors. The company, which sells
anything with a “good Christian value,” was seeing many unhappy returns of its
bibles after they had suffered damage in the mail. The padded envelopes the
company used just weren’t cutting the mustard. Christian Book needed a machine
that could tightly package orders on the fly. Trak-n-Pack turned out to be the
answer to its prayers. A specially designed machine by Rogers, AR-based Delta
Systems, it wraps orders in sized-to-fit corrugated packages at a whirlwind 30
packages per minute
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