What's next for packaging machinery automation?

摘要

It wasn't too many years ago that a debate was still raging among packaging machinery builders and buyers about the value of servo motion control for packaging. A walk through the 20 halls of this year's interpack made one thing abundantly clear: that debate is over. The widespread acceptance of servos has been driven, and rightly so, by the competitive advantage gained by machine builders and the improved performance enjoyed by end users, with both hopefully taking more dollars to their bottom lines. With this enabling technology now so widespread, one can only wonder what's next? Where will the next significant increase in competitive advantage and performance come from for packaging? Who better to ask than the world's leading automation providers and machine builders exhibiting at interpack?