Control suppliers, packaging machinery builders, and packaging machinery buyers have been talking about standards, or the lack thereof, for what seems like an eternity. So you'd think that by now the three camps would be pretty unified where standards are concerned. But recent conversations with packaging machine builders and buyers reveal that there's still a ways to go.rnPackML continues to hold the most hope. This "Packaging Machine Language"-and the data definitions, called PackTags, that are central to it-is a common programming structure having consistent modes and state definitions. With this structure in place, all packaging machines, regardless of who built them or whose controls they deploy, have a common look and feel.
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