In this edition of Food Engineering Magazine, author Wayne Labs explores how smart packaging is evolving into a connected data platform for food production and traceability. Dan Feeney, Automation Application Engineer at Harpak-ULMA, explains that reliable automation is essential for applying, inspecting, verifying, rejecting, aggregating, and communicating packaging data. Feeney emphasizes integrating inspection, traceability, and communication systems at production speed to reduce errors, strengthen data integrity, and keep products, labels, cases, and pallets connected throughout production workflows.

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