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Interview with Paul Zepf concerning the Packaging Line Performance Workshop
[Dec 20th, 2007]
Packaging Performance sat down with Paul Zepf to discuss the content and target audience for his upcoming workshops. Paul touches on influences of the course material and explains who will get the most out of the OEE performance workshops.
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Paul Zepf to speak at ARC conference on OEE Roadmap
[Dec 13th, 2007]
Although most plants are concerned about their performance and profits, they do not understand or have even implemented a reliable, effective and simple method of determining what they are doing, how they are doing, where they are going and where to improve from a holistic manufacturing standpoint. At ARC's 12th Annual forum on Feb 7th in Orlando, Paul Zepf will present a guide to making timely and effective business decisions through a roadmap on OEE.
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Paul Zepf to teach workshops on boosting line efficiency
[Dec 10th, 2007]
Paul Zepf will be teaching workshops for Packaging World across North America detailing how to boost line efficiency. The two day course will teach attendees how to measure Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) on packaging lines and how to implement strategies to improve line efficiency. The course will be available in the following cities;
Tampa, FL - (Feb 26-27th, 2008)
Chicago, IL - (Apr 15-16th, 2008)
Los Angeles, CA - (Jun 24-25th, 2008)
New Brunswick, NJ - (Sep 16-17th, 2008)
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Data acquisition tool helps production at Tropicana
[March 15th, 2007]
“There’s nothing new about production bottleneck analysis, but this is a much better tool for doing it.” That comment comes from Jeff Russell, principal electrical engineer at Tropicana Products, to describe the data acquisition and analysis software now used in processing as well as packaging operations at the Fort Pierce, FL, plant where he is located.
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AstraZeneca Increases Packaging Line Uptime
[May 23rd, 2007]
AstraZeneca recently piloted the Zarpac Performance Index data collection system on a packaging line at its Westborough, MA, facility to collect data to identify ways to improve uptime. The results of the study were reported in a presentation March 29 at the Pharmaceutical Packaging Forum by Jeff Rosen, senior industrial engineer, Aseptic Manufacturing and Packaging for Wilmington, DE-based AstraZeneca.
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