Andrews: 2016 was a big year with new extrusion technology for W&H. We follow Packaging 4.0 guidelines - our vision of Industry 4.0 - with all new developments being intelligent, integrated and intuitive. Our big highlights for 2016 were the addition of the TURBOCLEAN automated resin purging and job changeover system, reducing changeovers to roughly 12 minutes, just one-third of the time for manual changeovers. Another highlight was the introduction of Film Performance Monitor (FPM) on our FILMEX cast film line. FPM monitors data of the full production, which is saved on a QR code and can be scanned for downstream processing. This links the film's physical appearance back to key process parameters.
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