OMAC Packaging Workgroup establishes 2009 goals

A committee of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup met at the conclusion of the Orlando ARC Forum on sustainabie manufacturing to establish goals for 2009.

OMAC members completed several days of meetings intermixed among the ARC sessions and held half a day of sessions on Thursday at which end users and technology providers shared experiences around implementation of PackM/L and PackTags. Watch for more coverage of these success stories in Packaging World and OnTheEdgeBlog.

At the conclusion of the Forum, discussions turned to goals for 2009. Although final wording is still subject to tweaking by Chairperson Rick VanDyke of Frito Lay, the 4 goals focus on the following.

1) Take the OMAC Packaging Workgroup's (OPW) message global, showing both end users and machinery builders that PackML and PackTags are international in scope and application, especially now that they have been approved as ISA Technical Report S88 Part 5.

2) Prepare and communicate application examples, based upon completed implementations, that may be adopted by users or OEM's as templates for the use of PackML and PackTags.

3) Prepare and communicate examples of performance metrics, such as OEE, that may be built upon PackTags at the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) layer.

4) Develop additional end user support for OMAC initiatives and encourage all of the users and OEM's, who are quietly applying TR S88 Part 5, to publicly endorse it.

I think that these are great goals. I would like to see the group take on more objectives, such as establishing an education and training program for end users and OEM's. But the realities are, there are only so many volunteers and only so many hours in those volunteers' weeks that they can devote to OPW activities. If more of my readers would get involved, so much more could be accomplished. Collectively, packagers could drive waste from packaging processes and improve productivity around the world. Give it some thought!

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