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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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Problems / Challenges

Robotics in Secondary Packaging: When It’s Worth It, When It’s Not, and How to Prove ROI

Learn the conditions where robotics beat manual and traditional automation, the scenarios where you should pick a different solution, and a credibility framework Finance can trust.

How-To, Problems / Challenges

5 Metrics Every CPG Manufacturer Must Master for Omnichannel Packaging Success

Learn how e-commerce is changing end-of-line packaging, why traditional KPIs fall short, and how to realign your packaging strategy to meet e-commerce head-on.

E-commerce KPIs Metrics

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Problems / Challenges

The CPG Startup Readiness Checklist: 25 Questions to Prevent the Performance Dip

Get a 25-question readiness checklist spanning FAT, SAT, training, OEM relationships, and startup ownership – so you can identify gaps before they turn into downtime.

Commissioning

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Problems / Challenges

Which FAT Shortcuts Most Reliably Predict a Painful Commissioning?

Learn which FAT compromises are survivable, which almost guarantee pain, and where that risk will surface once the equipment hits your floor.

FAT

Problems / Challenges

Equipment Failure and the Bathtub Curve: How to Extend the Life of Your Machines

Learn what the bathtub curve tells us about equipment failure, why many machines age out faster than they should, and how top-performing plants extend the “useful life” phase.

Aftermarket Equipment Longevity

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Problems / Challenges

Electronic Controls Upgrades: A Practical Guide to Managing Obsolescence

Learn why controls go obsolete, how to reduce your risk, and which upgrade path offers the best ROI—based on your situation, not just your budget.

Aftermarket Obsolescence Return on Investment (ROI) Service Upgrades

Cost & Price

What Actually Drives Secondary Packaging TCO (Ranked by Impact)

Learn where total cost of ownership is actually created—so you know where to spend time, where to push vendors, and where cutting corners will cost you later.

Return on Investment (ROI) Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

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Problems / Challenges

Why CPG Secondary Packaging Projects Underperform: 20 Fixable Gaps

Walk through 20 of the most common and costly equipment gaps in secondary packaging—and how to mitigate them early.

Delays Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Bags of pet food being loaded into a case

How-To, Problems / Challenges

High-SKU Pet Food Operations: How to Cut Changeover Time in Case Packing and Palletizing

Break down what’s really happening in your end-of-line operations and build a plant-floor playbook that separates what’s process, what’s equipment, and what’s design.

Changeover Pet Food

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Beverage bottles, snack pouches, yogurt tubs, and candy bags in retail-ready packaging

Secondary Packaging 101

Retail-Ready Packaging: What It Is and What It Means for You

Retail-ready packaging (RRP) means that a single case must protect the product, and present and sell to retailers and customers. We’ll explain RRP and “The Five Easies,” and what they mean for your line.

Display-Ready RRP Shelf-Ready The Five Easies

Puzzle pieces linking together the words filler, accumulation, case packer, sealer, and palletizer

Secondary Packaging 101

Packaging Line Integration: What Determines Success?

Packaging line integration is not only machine performance, but also handoffs and effectiveness as a single system. We’ll explain the three factors of a well-integrated line and address the question of performance accountability.

Accumulation & Buffering Controls & Interface Line Balancing Multi-Vendor OEE Single-Source Supplier System Integrator

Icons indicating the three sustainability drivers: right-sizing, material reduction, and recyclable and fiber formats

Problems / Challenges

Sustainable Secondary Packaging: Strategies to Reduce Waste and Improve Efficiency

Sustainable secondary packaging is done through three drivers: right-sizing, reducing, and choosing more recyclable materials. We’ll explain how these factors impact your line, and how sustainability tends to cut both cost and footprint.

Carbon Footprint Fiber Formats Recycleable Reducing Materials Right-Sizing

Close-up of change parts on a beverage packing machine

Secondary Packaging 101

What Are Change Parts in Packaging Equipment? A Complete Guide

The physical components swapped off-of and onto machines during changeovers are change parts. We’ll help you understand how these tools quietly drive changeover time, cost, and flexibility; as well as how machine type alters their impact.

Changeover Components Hard-tooled Swapping Parts Tooling Toolless

Illustration of dashed arrows indicating intermittent motion and one long arrow indicating continuous motion

Comparisons

Intermittent vs Continuous Motion Packaging Machines: What’s the Difference?

Packaging machines move either intermittently or continuously. We’ll help you understand both types of motion and how they impact things like cost, speed, product handling, and changeovers.

Indexing

Graph showing mean time between failures with design-target mean time at 24 hours and field-tested mean time at 19 hours

Secondary Packaging 101

What is MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)?

MTBF is a common spec sheet number, and one that many buyers don’t understand. We’ll outline what MTBF is, how to calculate it, and what it means for your line.

Availability Design Target Field Tested Mean Time To Repair MTTR Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

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HORIZONTAL LOAD

TOP LOAD

SHRINK WRAPPERS

SHRINK PACKERS

MULTIWRAPPERS

CARTONERS

SLEEVERS

MULTIPACKERS

Learning Center

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.

Filter by Category

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Robotics in Secondary Packaging: When It’s Worth It, When It’s Not, and How to Prove ROI

5 Metrics Every CPG Manufacturer Must Master for Omnichannel Packaging Success

The CPG Startup Readiness Checklist: 25 Questions to Prevent the Performance Dip

Which FAT Shortcuts Most Reliably Predict a Painful Commissioning?

Equipment Failure and the Bathtub Curve: How to Extend the Life of Your Machines

Electronic Controls Upgrades: A Practical Guide to Managing Obsolescence

What Actually Drives Secondary Packaging TCO (Ranked by Impact)

Why CPG Secondary Packaging Projects Underperform: 20 Fixable Gaps

High-SKU Pet Food Operations: How to Cut Changeover Time in Case Packing and Palletizing

Retail-Ready Packaging: What It Is and What It Means for You

Packaging Line Integration: What Determines Success?

Sustainable Secondary Packaging: Strategies to Reduce Waste and Improve Efficiency

What Are Change Parts in Packaging Equipment? A Complete Guide

Intermittent vs Continuous Motion Packaging Machines: What’s the Difference?

What is MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)?

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