Aside from the incessant drive to make packaging machinery more productive, the coming year will see the conscious leveraging of automated packaging systems as a strategic business advantage.

According to a new white paper, trends to watch for – and hopefully implement in your own packaging operations – include machineability as the top challenge to sustainability, lean packaging principles, tighter integration with business systems, solutions for SKU proliferation, OEMs taking a systems approach, modules replacing machines, standardization for multinationals, network convergence, history repeats itself, and merging convenience with conservation.

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