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Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies face a host of compliance challenges, most of them driven by globalization. More complex supply networks, greater transparency expectations, increasingly strict reporting obligations, and highly vigilant enforcement combine to make regulatory compliance a key issue for life sciences manufacturers. U.S. based life sciences companies addressed a small number of markets, which mean that the regulatory compliance aspect of their businesses was also limited. This is no longer the case. With emerging markets now representing an increasing percentage of their revenues, the number of markets being sold into has proliferated, and regulatory standards have become a burden.

In the review period new coffee packaging trends in Sweden were driven specifically by consumer demand for more complex, upscale coffee, both in and outside of their homes. So, as the trend towards single cup preparation at home is building more and more momentum, packaging innovators are looking at how to best present their coffee to these consumers on retail shelves, ensuring quality and freshness. In terms of instant coffee, folding cartons continued to grow in 2012, mainly due to aforementioned single cups, such as instant cappuccino, which is frequently offered in small pack sizes. This pack type particularly attracts the coffee brand owners because it allows them to differentiate their products. Visual identity through pictures, colours and quality information are presumed to be necessary for instant coffee packaging.

Hytrol Conveyor Company, Inc., manufacturers of advanced conveyor systems, controls, and solutions, provided a video demonstration how to adjust the ProSort MRT 90? divert bank. The current video is part of a monthly video series called “Ask Hytrol” focused on specific topics to help maintain conveyor systems and learn about new technologies.

Wickwire Warehouse Inc. is a Philadelphia based warehouse facility offering stainless steel wire and other related products nationwide. This winter, they are offering a wide variety of wire mesh products for industrial, commercial and residential purposes. For over 50 years, Wickwire Warehouse Inc. has offered a full line of alloy and steel wire products.

RPE, a leading retail merchandising and supply chain consultant, is conducting Allocation Health Checks to assess the efficiency of the retail allocation environment. The Health Check for JDA Software’s Allocation solution includes reviewing retail allocation strategies, identifying functional and technical gaps and recommending improvements. By maximizing Allocation by JDA Software, retailers can efficiently target the optimal mix of products, brands, sizes, colors and quantities for each store.

Electromechanically operated valves are used in a variety of machines. Solenoid Valves are an important component to be used in the fluid mechanics. China based Ningbo Zhenhai Finotek Machinery Company is introducing their Hydraulic Solenoid Valves that can be used in various machines because of their improved designs. The valves are remarkable for their automation and improved manipulation characteristics, and can easily meet the requirements of the modern-day hydraulic systems.

Packing industry has been a vital part of every industry from food and beverages to FMCG, cosmetics to pharmaceutical, chemicals to spare parts and retail to Engineering. Companies are designing new packaging designs to change the appearance and

igus offers products for machine tools that are high quality and also cost effective. The tribo-tape made of a new material, the lubricant-free polymer slewing ring bearing with individually adjustable swivel angle, or the new chip-proof R2.75 energy tube.

Risong Polypipe reiterates its commitment to provide stable and economical piping systems for different buildings by introducing their improved quality HDPE Pipes and Fittings. These pipes and fittings are appropriate for maintaining a healthy water supply in any building and have wide applications in many kinds of modern constructions.

Consumers who often drink at bars should learn one ordering tip that will greatly improve their drinking experience. Don’t order a cranberry-vodka. In truth, there’s nothing specific about cranberry vodka that we are picking on, the main issue is not to order a house liquor mixed drink.

Changes in consumers? lifestyles, especially more and more attention placed on the health aspects of products consumed, influenced a shift in the consumer preference from product categories like coffee to hot drinks such as tea or decaffeinated coffee. On the other hand, growing price sensitivity and a lesser propensity to spend on non-essential products led to the growing preference for smaller pack sizes in the case of hot drinks.

Baby food continues to be an underdeveloped category in Romania, with this situation being fuelled by the government policy to provide free milk formula for babies who need additional feeding to breastfeeding. The main engine for growth is represented by affluent urban families, those who are able to purchase supplementary baby food or to even renounce the state-provided formula. Last but not least, the weak growth rates in baby food are also due to paediatricians? recommendation to breastfeed and to resort to milk formula only when strictly necessary.

Contractors and builders are invited to prepare their hydraulic breakers for the New Year with Hydraulic Breaker Services LLC inspection analysis. Hydraulic breakers can be saved from damage with a thorough inspection to prevent the high cost of repairs. Customers can be assured that their breaker is properly cleaned and be comforted in knowing their construction tool works efficiently by having their breaker examined by professionals.

The diverse catalogue range has become wider still to offer the right plain bearing for every application. And they are quickly available from stock.

Hytrol Conveyor Company, Inc., manufacturers of advanced conveyor systems, controls, and solutions, worked with integration partner McCombs-Wall, Inc. Engineering to provide California Cartage Company with an automated material handling system capable of processing the customer's high volume of product. Hytrol Conveyor and McCombs-Wall, Inc. Engineering leveraged solutions that delivered the amount of throughput through only 20 inbound doors, where a typical cross-docking system would have required 35 inbound doors. The system accomplished this through a specialized method of induction feeding two of the most advanced sliding shoe sorters in the industry.

Rumors are like computer viruses, they spread like wildfire, and can spell the death of an otherwise great manufacturing company. PDP Solutions is offering a webinar for manufacturers that address this problem. The webinar is Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 11:00 am EST and December 18, 2014 at 11:00 am EST.

LONGEVITY is now offering a versatile range of welders for sale at cost effective prices. The company is an eminent name for providing commercial and domestic use welding machines. With them, one will get welders machines that have high applications in a variety of industries such as construction, automobile, manufacturing and more. Most of their welding machines come with a five-year warranty period that is applicable on parts and labor. The warranty period is designed keeping in mind the end-user. Their sheer designing and innovative bent of mind has enabled them to create welding machines that are the need of the hour for heavy industrial operations.

LONGEVITY is now offering a myriad of welders equipment with a warranty period. The company stores and sells best-in-class functionality industrial and domestic welding machines that are heavy duty and used for large applications. Their TIG welder is a most advanced and precise welding machine that provides quality welds. This tool allows the welder to control the heat and it is widely used for thinner welding applications. This ACDC-enabled welding tool holds the power to weld different kinds of metals including aluminum. Its GTAW-Pulse allows for pulsing both AC and DC modes and also controls heat distribution. The pulse further enables the user to set the timing mechanism thus preventing the metal from burning.

Hytrol Conveyor Company, Inc., manufacturer of advanced conveyor systems, controls, and solutions attributes the integration partner network critical to the company’s success. Matt Farris, Hytrol’s Director of Business Development, commented, “Skarnes has been a Hytrol Integrator for over 50 years. We have worked hand-in-hand with them for many years and have developed a true partnership that has paid dividends to our end-users. They have a well trained staff that can provide problem solving solutions to their customers while providing a personalized service level. We are proud to be associated with them and look forward to many more successful years together.”

Does the United States make things that customers around the world want to buy? People in the sheet metal industry working at Zahner (Kansas City MO) answer with a resounding, “Yes!”

Businesses must embrace technology to automate and digitize their once manual processes in order to stay competitive. John Paul Williams, Director, Enterprise Solutions and Market Development, Americas for Polycom, discussed the value of automation and digitization, ways food manufacturers can leverage this technology to improve business, and tips for garnering management approval in a recent interview with Jenn Brusco, TraceGains’ Marketing Specialist.

The ergonomic consideration of using omniwheels was recently reviewed. A Self-Stabilizing truck with onmiwheels was just reviewed by independent Humantech Ergonomics. Michael Hoonhorst, Senior Consultant and Ergonomics Engineer for Humantech, explained the 4 categories of the 4 star review included: impact on ergonomic risk factors, adjustability, innovation, and intuitiveness. Hoonhorst noted the first category is the impact on ergonomic risk factors and the reviewed truck can go up curbs by pivoting the front wheels up the curb and lifting the rear wheels on to the curb which saves a lot of time and effort for the person using the truck.

The current issue of AS411.com featured PDP Solutions’ success with onboarding new manufacturing workers. Manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler, reported on the path toward developing and maintaining positive working relationships. In the article, titled, “The Technology of Onboarding New Manufacturing Workers.”

John Hayes reported that after a new AGV (automated guided vehicle) system is purchased, the next step is not always clear. The automation trouble often starts when the distribution center managers or manufacturing plant managers meet the project implementation team. The implementation group does not know what the customer has said or what the sales rep has promised before this initial meeting. The team is rewarded for increasing project margins and will be very strict in the application of the contract and the specification. A customer advocate is needed. A customer project manager (often an experienced third party with extensive experience in these types of implementations) is needed. The project manager is the watchdog on the implementation on behalf of the customer.

New robotic systems are being developed which moves up and down the front of two or three tiered horizontal carousels retrieving and discharging totes, boxes, or cases. Delivering inventory to a conveyor for routing to the dynamic batch workstations is useful because orders can be buffered until the operator requires that pick. Completed orders are automatically taken from the workstation and routed to the next workstation or zone for further processing and then sent back to the robotic system for storage until the next pick is required. There are numerous ways to accomplish integrated dynamic batch workstations to optimize order pickers time by automatically inducting and discharging orders.