In the past, engineers would have to wait for equipment to break down before conducting repairs. No set maintenance schedules existed, and diagnostics were inconclusive. Equipment was removed for service, accumulating hours or days of costly unplanned downtime, requiring on-site assistance from available third-party techs. Today, Augmented Reality (AR) offers a better path towards efficient,…
Harpak-ULMA partnered with PTC to present this webinar. The growing skills gap and ongoing labor shortage doesn’t just impact use as an equipment manufacturer, but also impacts our end-users as well. By combining augmented reality and industrial IoT, we’ve improved the training efficiency of technicians and support our customers with self-service instructions – ultimately reducing tool rebuilds by 80%.
This episode we chat with Judson Armentrout, a seasoned retail expert who brings a fresh perspective on packaging decisions made by retailers
Vision systems were what could be for packaging tech developers – dreams, fantasies, far-off realities that relied on futuristic tools to give customers full control over products and processes at faster speeds. Yet packaging technology continued to evolve. Impossibilities became possible as optics hardware, software, and even complex coding language – driven by artificial intelligence…
Tight prep times and tighter budgets are causing seismic purchasing shifts among carnivorous consumers. The recent “Power of Meat” study from the Meat Institute, Washington D.C., revealed that nearly eight out of 10 (78%) of shoppers are adjusting how much meat and poultry they buy, citing higher costs, lasting inflation, and lack of time as…
