Digital Transformation Drives the Future of Packaging
Expanding use of new and emerging technologies offers major opportunities to improve sustainability, efficiency, and production
Consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) face intense pressures to stay competitive in today’s markets. They must sustain profitability, improve production line throughput and flexibility, manage rising material costs and meet critical sustainability and decarbonization goals.
Digital transformation is one of the most effective approaches to help today’s CPG companies solve productivity and sustainability challenges. There are new and emerging automation technologies that CPGs can integrate within production lines to reduce energy consumption, streamline processes, increase machine availability and drive new levels of productivity and sustainability.
Digital Transformation Is Key to CPG Growth
Many CPGs have valuable data they could use to solve productivity and sustainability challenges but no way to access it. Digital transformation technology gives CPG operations new understanding about where waste and inefficiency exists in single machines and across production lines, as well as providing an array of integrated tools to help operators analyze and better control these issues.
Digital transformation integrates multiple types of components and technology at every level of packaging operations. Intelligent sensors and valves generate critical data on asset performance, while smart protocol convertors release machine data in existing automation controllers and share it across all packaging lines.
Innovative software formats and organizes data into actionable insights and real-time information on machine health. The information is scaled to cloud-based analytical tools, giving packaging companies a more sophisticated understanding of energy usage, throughput and scrappage patterns. By integrating intelligent solutions that automate and optimize packaging processes from the factory floor to the cloud, CPGs can simultaneously improve sustainability, efficiency and productivity.