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Whether you’re looking for solutions to specific challenges or wanting to deepen your overall knowledge of secondary packaging, our Learning Center is designed to give you the resources to make confident decisions about your secondary packaging systems.

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Packaging Automation Mistakes: How Poor Communication Leads to Delays, Reworks & Cost Overruns

Learn about the six most common ways communication gaps derail automation projects — and exactly what to provide your OEM upfront to avoid them.

Delays Project Coordination

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Cost & Price

7 Factors that Raise (or Lower) the Purchase Price of Packaging Automation for Pouches and Bags

Learn about the seven key drivers—and cost reducers—that impact the total price of pouch and bag automation.

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Secondary Packaging 101

Predictive vs Preventive Maintenance: How Do They Differ?

Learn how to tell which type of maintenance your high-value assets need and where traditional maintenance still makes business sense.

CMMS Equipment Reliability P-F Curve Predictive Maintenance Preventive Maintenance

Problems / Challenges

Packaging Equipment Project Timelines: Why They Range from 4 to 18 Months

Understand which dependencies are on the critical path and the cost/benefits of timeline compression so you can negotiate timelines that protect both schedules and production success.

Commissioning Startup System Integration

Secondary Packaging 101

URS, FDS, and FRS: A Buyer’s Guide to Packaging Project Specifications

Understand the roles of these three core specification documents and when each one is required so that you can save your project from FAT failures and costly rework.

Equipment Validation Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) FDS FRS Site Acceptance Test (SAT) Specifications System Integration URS

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Secondary Packaging 101

What Is Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and What Drives It Up or Down?

Understand MTTR along with its components and drivers so you can identify where downtime actually happens and where to focus improvement effort for the fastest payback.

Delays Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Reliability Repairs

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Comparisons

Remote Service vs. Remote Monitoring: What Your OEM Actually Delivers

Understand the difference between remote monitoring and remote service and how these things affect how you budget, manage security, and partner with your OEM.

Cybersecurity Diagnostics Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Remote Monitoring Remote Service

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Comparisons

OEM vs. System Integrator: Which One Should You Hire?

One company builds the machines. The other ties the line together. Here’s how to tell which is right for your project — and why “both” is often the real answer.

Commissioning Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) Line Integration Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) System Integrator (SI)

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Whether you’re looking for solutions to specific challenges or wanting to deepen your overall knowledge of secondary packaging, our Learning Center is designed to give you the resources to make confident decisions about your secondary packaging systems.

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Packaging Automation Mistakes: How Poor Communication Leads to Delays, Reworks & Cost Overruns

7 Factors that Raise (or Lower) the Purchase Price of Packaging Automation for Pouches and Bags

Predictive vs Preventive Maintenance: How Do They Differ?

Packaging Equipment Project Timelines: Why They Range from 4 to 18 Months

URS, FDS, and FRS: A Buyer’s Guide to Packaging Project Specifications

What Is Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and What Drives It Up or Down?

Remote Service vs. Remote Monitoring: What Your OEM Actually Delivers

OEM vs. System Integrator: Which One Should You Hire?

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