Happy St. Patricks Day. (For today, I can go by my grandfather's Irish name -- Gannon). I'm back in the US and just finished parsing through hundreds of emails. Think I'm getting organized again. There's a ton of stuff to blog, now to find time. Ready to get the April issue of Automation World out. It was a great trip to Israel and Egypt. I'm still loading pictures into my Flickr account, but many are up.
Speakers are ready for our Packaging Automation Forum coming up March 31 at the Intercontinental O'Hare in Chicago. (Hmm, I just spent three nights at the Intercontinental in Cairo, guess I can compare). We have a stellar lineup. As I've said before, even though the name has "packaging" in it (Packaging World magazine is a joint sponsor), there's a lot of general information about using standards for controls, using real-time information for MES and ERP and the like. I will be moderating the afternoon session, and you can come and pick on me there.
Here's a list of some of the speakers:
Kraft Foods - "How the Use of Real-Time Data Brings Increased Flexibility and Improves Speed to Market"
Lance Inc. - "Connecting the Plant Floor with the Executive Suite"
Nestle Purina - "Wireless Comes to Packaging"
Purdue Pharma - "Drug Serialization from a Controls Perspective"
Niagara Bottling LLC - "Data Acquisition Simplifies Startups and Spurs Manufacturing Efficiency"
Pfizer - "How Coordinated Controls Technologies Can Bring Greater Standardization and Efficiency to Pharmaceutical Packaging Lines"
There will also be a "Connect and Pack" OMAC workshop on 3/30 from 1 to 5. The agenda includes:
Seminar Agenda
- User benefits achieved from Connect-and-Pack
- OEM benefit achieve from Connect-and-Pack
- What's in the ISA88 Technical Report (PackML and PackTags)?
- An example implementation of PackML and PackTags on a control platform
- An example implementation of PackML and PackTags on a supervisory platform (HMI, MES)
See you there.
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