When you begin a packaging job, you know how much each piece “should” cost you and what your margins “should” be. At the end of the run, after all the labor has been employed, the materials have been used, and the time to correct problems has passed, you take a look to make sure you costed the job correctly. How many times are you surprised at the outcome? More often than not, what you end up spending is a lot more than you projected..

It's More Expensive Than I Can Do It For In-House Every once in a while we hear this. The question is, is it really? How did you arrive at your internal cost?

We have all heard of the FSMA, FIFO, FEFO, and more recently SDS. Or have we?

Substantially reduce cost and increase production output with Automation If you are responsible for some or all of a manufacturing operation, you know metrics are important in determining if you are running at peak efficiency. The introduction of automation to a packaging production line can have a substantial (positive) impact both of output and labor costs. A measure that should be part of your labor review is line realization.