EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS

Meet Markem-Imaje’s Super Piezo Inkjet: Guarantees a high level of coding excellence while ensuring compliance with the strictest traceability regulations.

New robotic solutions are fascinating and exciting to watch in action. However, they will not bring any value to your production processes unless they can be applied and demonstrated continuously in an unforgiving manufacturing environment. Learn how new innovative robotic technology is improving automation aptitude of real manufacturing lines.

Join us to explore how designing your CPG manufacturing enterprise with focus on ‘digital readiness’ can both enhance and optimize your current operation and build a future-proofed infrastructure that will support and leverage innovative digital technologies and initiatives going forward.

Our session will cover the history and basics of sanitary drainage system design in food facilities.

Labor challenges and increasing customer demands make it tough to stay ahead of the game. You need scalable automation solutions that can be implemented quickly to maximize productivity and profits. This session will focus on how scalable automation will help you increase ROI, OEE, and improve your competitive position.

Every firm knows cybersecurity is essential. But let’s face it: Not all of them treat it that way. This session gives CPG firms an essential “starter pack” — a thorough set of real-world cases, best practices, and trends — that will help them get up to speed on the latest.

Implementing a custom MES solution to increase operational visibility, improve up-time, and reduce waste streams.

This presentation will show case sustainable solutions, whether it is for E-commerce, Retail, or distribution packaging, including using re-sealable stitch paper form fill and seal versus plastic film, newly available 100% recycled film containing 50% post consumer, and glue less cardboard dividers inserted automatically between glass bottles.

Healthcare has unique sustainability challenges including maintaining medicinal efficacy and ensuring medical device functionality and sterility. TekniPlex Healthcare through innovation in materials science can help improve both patient and environmental health. This presentation will showcase a roadmap of the 3Rs and share how they help close the sustainability gap.

This educational session is for manufacturers who are struggling with rising costs, labor shortages, and insufficient capital. By attending this session, you will learn how to automate packaging tasks without the traditional barriers and risk of automation purchases. Instead, Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) yields immediate savings, more flexibility, and guaranteed uptime.

Mastering the case packer is no easy task. In this presentation, Senior Engineer Jim Stahlman will guide you through three steps to achieve success in your case handling projects.

To help companies comply with new regulations and achieve their sustainability goals, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical has eliminated all traces of PFAS from its oxygen absorber packaging, making it one of the most eco-friendly solutions in the industry. Learn how MGC revolutionized its packaging design without compromising performance, quality or safety.

New developments allow for much greater incorporation of recycled content into flexible films.

Small Steps, Big Gains. AI is the buzzword these days. Its most discussed application is predictive maintenance, but implementation of large-scale AI applications can be daunting, expensive, and time-consuming. Learn AI’s potential to transform productivity through incremental adoption – identifying applications where AI makes otherwise difficult or impossible analysis feasible.

This presentation will focus on the need for integral testing partnerships between food manufacturers and equipment manufacturers. It will explain the evolution of how collaborating closely with our partners has led to quick changes and new manufacturing innovations.

Automation can look scary, but with the right tools, it can be solution! Learn what to look for and how to apply the knowledge in your plant to see results.

Addressing customer challenges and the sustainability imperative.

Digitalization and factory automation are revolutionizing the way companies operate, streamlining processes, and increasing productivity. Manufacturers can now benefit from intelligent systems that can automate everything from material handling to data retrieval and integration. This session explores how these technologies can generate faster production, reduce costs, and improve product quality.

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connects equipment like automated CIP, COP, or process equipment to the cloud. Benefits of IoT include not only automated electronic data capture and cloud access, but opportunities for improved process efficiencies and gives expert manufacturers the ability to remotely analyze system operation.

Think radically about your packaging supply chain by challenging traditional assumptions and practices that may be limiting your organization's potential. Join us to explore new approaches to packaging network design, including when, how and where all your packaging needs are performed.

The spiraling skilled trades shortage is leaving manufacturers nervous about the future. But after cracking the code to find thousands of skilled trades applicants each month, Skillwork has a plan to help manufacturers not just come out of the crisis alive, but on top.

Syntegon’s gloveless Versynta microBatch working cell is the realization of robotic excellence for aseptic pharmaceutical applications on the smallest scale. As pharmaceutical batch sizes grow smaller with personalized medicine advancements, the highly flexible and fully automated microBatch machine removes humans to reduce contamination risks while maximizing product quality and yield.

Manufacturers in hygienic facilities are constantly looking for ways to improve their process and reduce production costs using equipment that maintains required levels of hygiene and standards. This session will review how the FluxCore drive technology in QUANTM pumps can improve operations and reduce energy consumption by up to 80%.

Many manufacturers turned to mobile platforms and robots to tackle today's challenges. Mobile robots navigate crowded factory floors and perform a wide range of complicated tasks in different industries. But how serious is this trend, what are the experiences that manufacturers made and how to get started with this technology?

Automation in manufacturing has transitioned from a futuristic concept to a necessity for remaining competitive. In this session, we sit down with Berry Global to learn about their primary business reasons for selecting autonomous mobile robots, how their automation strategies have changed in the past two years and more.

Learn how a digital twin can simulate, predict and optimize machines. See how an “Executable Digital Twin” can expand the usefulness of a traditional digital twin to make real-time decisions to optimize running equipment.

ProFood World will present the Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards (SEMA) to this year’s winners. We’ll also hear from some of the winners about how they achieved sustainability success, including Conagra Brands, Hormel Foods, and Smithfield Foods.

Smart factories are leading the way when it comes to leveraging data to improve operations, reduce costs, and increase environmental sustainability. As Industry 4.0 continues, we look at the positive impact automation can have on tackling cybersecurity, efficiency, safety, and sustainability in smart factories.

Dealing with the challenges of increasing productivity and employee turnover? Join us, see how to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness by getting the correct data to make the right decisions, implementing smart devices and Guided Changeover to reduce planned and unplanned downtime, increase machine optimization and reduce product & packaging waste.

Steam systems can deliver significant sustainability benefits through energy and water savings, Learn how we help identify and implement solutions which support and contribute to achieving net zero goals, through system efficiency, connected insights and decarbonization options – throughout the steam system – from generation to point of use.

Advancements in robotics are revolutionizing industries with flexible and affordable automation solutions. Will demonstrate how implementing robots can replace multiple lines, how modular scalable systems can grow with operations without capping future capabilities. Learn how to recognize automation opportunities and create a system that satisfies retailers with various packaging formats.

The use of cameras and other vision technology in CPG facilities has been used in quality assurance and security for years. Now, there’s an exciting new frontier for vision: AI-enabled real-time asset health monitoring. This session walks through how this new innovation works and how it unlocks productivity.

As leading brands seek to eliminate problematic plastic in their packaging, recyclable solutions are top-of-mind. For some markets, particularly dairy, beverage, and nutraceuticals, a recyclable solution has been out of reach. This session addresses the problem with current solutions, the need for light-blocking packaging, and recyclable alternatives for these markets.

We have all heard the term “Lights Out Bakery.” The concept is to build a bakery where lights are not needed because the line is fully automated and no personnel is required to operate the equipment. Today’s continuous mixing technology is already close to the “lights out” goal.

Soft Robotics Inc.’s new UI allows integrators to utilize artificial intelligence with the click of a button. Optimize bulk picking applications and remove the need for bulky singulation machines. Learn how our food automation solution can easily be programmed to handle variance between applications and optimized to increase yield.

SmartCycle® label films from kp are produced from a PET material that has similar properties to traditional, non-recyclable films, but has the added benefit of being recyclable right along with the PET bottles they are used on. This new innovation for the labels market will have long lasting environmental benefits.

The utility operating cost of a packaging machine are largely driven by the heating systems needed to seal or form packages. Nexthermal’s Vice President of Operations Jeff Wheeler will review the design choices of thermodynamics in the sealing processes and opportunities to reduce operating costs and help improve machine uptime.

Industrial Physics is a global packaging, product, and material test and inspection partner. We provide equipment and services to manufacturers, laboratories, and production lines across industries including food, beverage, flexible packaging, metal packaging, paper, pulp and more.

This presentation means to showcase the latest innovations in the field of laminating adhesives to meet the continuous challenges of regulations and circular economy and highlight the big impact of adhesives within the flexible packaging structure.

Data visibility is critical. Certifications, material locations, maintenance records…knowledge leads to productivity and helps keep facilities running longer and more efficiently. Learn how BR Code™ Scannable Tapes and Labels, together with the free BitRip® mobile app, can put critical data at your fingertips…without expensive equipment and systems.

Sustainability is the way forward, and innovative, sustainable packaging for consumer goods products is becoming more prevalent in the marketplace. During this presentation, we’ll share approaches on how to thoughtfully use adhesives in the design and production of sustainable consumer goods packaging.

As sentiment around environmental sustainability increases, consumers are looking hard at consumption habits and the waste that their purchases generate – and the role packaging plays is central to this.

High pressure processing, or HPP, is a non-thermal process for foods that inactivates pathogens and eliminates the need for preservatives, maintaining the nutrients and taste of food products. This session will address how HPP works and present application trends and examples of commercial food and beverage applications on the market.

Are you struggling keeping your workforce effective in your plant? Struggling to deal with the high mix of demands from consumers? Suffering from quality issues after changeovers? Then this session is for you! Join our industry expert in a discussion around how to make machinery more adaptable for today’s market.

Dow will showcase our holistic approach to improving the life cycle of packaging, from production to recycling, emphasizing the positive impact of closing the loop.

Minimize risk and reduce cost while being more sustainable with right-sized packaging. When it comes to packing and shipping, you can make efficiencies in larger factors such as operations and system design but also in smaller details like automated box sizing and packing processes.

Why HPP? 1) GREATER PROFITABILITY: Than Conventional Processing 2)FRESH TASTE: Not Altered by Heat, Chemical or Irradiation 3)CLEAN LABEL: Aligns with Consumer Trends 4) LONGER SHELF LIFE: Drastically Reduces Spoilage 5) FOOD SAFETY: Extreme Pressure Inactivates Pathogens

Today’s shipping yards face overwhelming challenges that go way beyond manual tracking methods. Come see how leading logistics operations are leveraging effective yard management practices to ditch spreadsheets, paper, and radios while improving their bottom line by millions of dollars per year.

Protecting the purity of your product reduces the potential risk of a product recall, damage to brand reputation, and financial liability. Adding “intelligent” technology to your magnetic separation equipment protects equipment, and reduces downtime, maintenance costs, and risks of fire hazards or explosion.

The advantages of cabinetless machine design are clear in packaging. New technologies that combine all control functionality in IP65/67 form factors help shrink machine footprints by 75%, reduce component count and more. This presentation will review real-world examples that demonstrate how to successfully design cabinetless packaging machines with available technologies.

Merck is automating their laboratory environment & digitalizing production at its global HQ in Darmstadt (D). Merck is responding to the needs of market demands of ever shorter lead times & customized products & this key is modular production & relying on an industry standard called Module Type Package (MTP).

In this session, Specright CEO and Founder, Matthew Wright, will discuss current challenges impacting the packaging workforce, the importance of academia and the role technology plays when it comes to shaping the next generation of leaders in the industry.

The combination of 3D Vision for Robot Guidance (SICK), Advanced Path Planning (Realtime Robotics) and robots (Mitsubishi Electric Automation) will enable users to solve their most demanding 3D bin picking problems more accurately/faster than has ever been possible. Be among the first to learn about this exciting breakthrough.

ProFood World will present the Manufacturing Innovation Awards (MIA) to this year’s winners. Speakers from MyForest Foods, Prestage Foods of South Carolina, and SunOpta will present technology innovations from their recent greenfield facility projects, discussing automation advances, sustainability efforts, and more.

"Mono-material packaging" is one of the buzzwords recently in the flexible packaging industry, since current "multi-material packaging" is not easy to be recycled. Toppan shows the latest achievement for PP GL Barrier, which is key component to make Retort Pouch to be recyclable.

In today’s challenging environment, it is becoming critical to leverage your OEMs for your operational success. How do we capture, organize, and make data available outside manufacturing equipment to enable this much needed support from machine builders? Let’s start with the basics: data ready machines supporting performance management.

We will be showcasing BOBST oneBARRIER sustainable film technology. A cutting edge innovation that revolutionizes the packaging industries approach to high barrier sustainable films. This technology represents a significant stride towards environmentally sustainable packaging solutions.

In this session, Specright CEO and Founder, Matthew Wright, will discuss how before packaging operators look to trending technology like artificial intelligence or machine learning, solving their most pressing problems begins with a strong product and packaging data foundation through digitized specifications.

Industrial digital transformation enables new approaches to efficiency. Whereas traditional approaches break out production efficiency (measured in overall equipment effectiveness, or OEE) from energy management KPIs, this presentation introduces the idea of a sustainability oriented OEE that integrates the two.

This presentation will review an entirely new way to think about robotics using intelligent linear transport systems. Wireless movers can be equipped with powered end effectors that result in a low profile, flat multi-robot system that’s fully embedded into packaging machinery instead of attached as a separate, standalone robot module.

2024 will be the year automation comes into its own. Warehouses are ready, the technology is falling into place, and all that’s left is for you to jump in and start benefiting. But, before making any investment, it’s good to know where we are at today and what’s coming.

Sustainability continues to be a hot topic of discussion for every organization. This session discusses some of the trends and developments specific to food packaging materials.

Dassault Systèmes (DS) will discuss the enduring impact that changes in consumer behavior have had on sustainable packaging demand. Manufacturers urgently need to make real progress on a sustainable packaging approach that will support circular economic models.

The food and beverage industry has shifted focus to cloud-based software solutions. This shift has delivered decisive benefits as roughly 75% of food and beverage companies have seen KPI improvements across the board. Join Aptean’s food and beverage expert as he dives into the journey to digital readiness. TEST TEST TEST

Redesign. Repurpose. Revolutionize: Innovations for Zero-Waste Packaging: The circular economy will soon guide all consumption. As the need for packaging grows, we must use design in innovative ways to respect the resources of our planet.