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Emulation Case Study: Reject Station

One example of an emulation helping save time and money came on a recent project.  The line in question was designed with a reject station just after the filling machine.  If a case was not closed properly, a photoeye at the reject station would detect the open flap and trigger a pusher to push the [...]

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E2M Brings Industry Experience to WinterSim

A few weeks ago, E2M/Polytron attended WinterSim.  WinterSim (http://www.wintersim.org/)  is a conference about everything to do with simulation and attracts both academics and professionals, though it is a bit heavier on the academic side.  Last year was E2M’s first year attending WinterSim, but we thought it was a great conference and vowed to bring our [...]

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Improving Manufacturing Processes Can Increase Bottom Line

There was a good article posted on Manufacturing.net about “Balancing Compliance with Economics: The New Role of Manufacturing”.  Robert Di Scipio gives some good information about how using software can improve the process of problem solving.  Many pharmaceutical manufacturing companies need specific readings every few seconds and having the proper software to record this data [...]

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E2M/Polytron Offers Many Resources for Manufacturing Engineering

E2M/Polytron offer several resources at www.e2m.com for the manufacturing engineering community.  Help yourself to any of our online resources.  E2M/Polytron offers Whitepapers, On-Demand Webinars, Videos, and an online  community of more than 1,500 manufacturing engineering and manufacturing packaging professionals to solve real problems from the world’s largest manufacturing facilities. The first resource in each category is available [...]

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Packaging Automation Forum to be Held in Chicago

The Packaging Automation Forum, an educational forum produced by Packaging World and Automation World Magazines, will be held on April 26, 2011 in Chicago. Professionals from Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Kraft, and other organizations will showcase manufacturing technologies that will help with manufacturing and packaging lines. There will be many great topics presented at this year’s conference.  Pat [...]

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