One sure sign was that the OMAC booth was busy all three days. According to folks I talked with, people were bringing their colleagues to the booth and, rather than waiting for one of the designated ...

Conference registrants are invited to arrive early to attend this informative training session for professionals who wish to learn more about the benefits of PackML. The PackML Workshop offers ...

The Organization for Machine Automation and Control (OMAC) has added two new sessions to its annual PackML workshop to allow for more intense training and individual attention on key tasks and ...

The half-day training session, May 18 at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare, provides PackML fundamentals and applications in packaging and non-packaging related automation The workshop is tailored to ...

The PackML automation standard is used in the packaging machine industry to transfer and receive consistent data between machines on a packaging line. While it's well known to machine builders, it ...

The workshop, which was produced in cooperation with the Organization for Machine Automation and Control (OMAC), drew attendees from consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and packaging machinery ...

One controls supplier put it this way. "What is specified is the direct communication to the MES and SCADA level through OPC. But for communication on the machine level, the work was not finished. The ...

Unlike past initiatives where consumer goods companies' engineers tried to sell the benefits of PackML, this time the executives of packaging machinery companies are speaking out in an effort to drive ...