Reduce Waste - Save Time and Cost Application Benefits of Automated Inspection for Roll to Roll Packaging Converters, 2010 PLACE Conference

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Requirements from packaging buyers continue to change, becoming ever more demanding, seeking lower prices, better quality and just in time delivery. This is against the backdrop of ever increasing substrate costs, complex material structures, demanding graphics, stricter regulatory statutes and increasing operating costs. Suppliers to global consumer companies understand the harsh contract penalties, where shipping sub quality products brings with it monetary losses through status downgrades ending in new business lost or even worse the cancelation of existing contracts, together with the cost of replacement and consequential damages.

As packaging companies consolidate to achieve scale, and meet the multisite requirements for delivery, standardization becomes a necessity not a luxury. Standardization of business process quickly identifies the need of standardization of production processes. The key to achieving this is through the implementation of continuous process improvements across the organization.