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The coveted Frost & Sullivan award for Innovation & Advancement in Industry was awarded to ELAU (PELV Booth S-5414) for 2007. The respected, international market research company credited ELAU AG with leading the way in packaging machine automation.
Aseptic packaging is big around the world, and it is gradually taking hold in the U.S. It’s the competitive advantage of fresh taste versus slow progress with the FDA, which currently requires a letter of ‘non-objection.’
ELAU, credited with first enabling mechatronics in packaging machine design and more recently with introducing the advantages of modularity to packaging machine automation, introduces the next advance in modularity, its new PacDrive™ iSH Series of Intelligent Servo Modules.
ELAU, credited with first enabling mechatronics in packaging machine design and more recently with introducing the advantages of modularity to packaging machine automation, introduces the next advance in modularity, its new PacDrive™ iSH Series of Intelligent Servo Modules.
Benefiting education, ELAU sponsored the recent PMMI MarketTrends golf tourney May 8. Highlighting MarketTrends were panel discussions with end users on trends in packaging machinery purchasing practices.
According to ELAU technology evangelist Tom Jensen, modular software design benefits packaging automation for the same reason that World Batch Forum (WBF) recommends modularity in process automation. His presentation at the WBF 2006 Forum in Atlanta demonstrated that when implemented with ISA-88 (IEC 61512) principles in the IEC 61131-3 international standard automation programming languages, modularity becomes a powerful tool for both machine builders and users.
Dr. Thomas Cord, CEO of parent company ELAU AG, noted the significance of this new membership category to the company and its customers. “We participate actively in all the packaging machinery builders’ associations and standards groups available to us worldwide,” said Dr. Cord. “Because North America is the world’s largest market for packaging machinery, contributing as a PMMI member to the industry is a top priority in our business strategy.”
At the PMMI Tech Talks workshop hosted by ICS Inex Inspection Systems in Clearwater, Florida, PMMI member companies learned valuable lessons in safety.
Lead speaker at the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute’s annual meeting, ELAU NA president Christopher Zei gave leaders of North America’s top packaging machine builders a road map to add value and reduce costs by adopting a systematic and modular approach to mechatronic engineering.
At PMMI’s national meeting in November, ELAU NA president Christopher Zei shared a road map to add value and reduce costs by adopting a systematic, modular approach to mechatronic engineering.
Record numbers of packagers and machine builders alike came to Las Vegas looking to break away from the status quo and achieve quantum rather than incremental gains in capability and cost reduction.
Schneider Electric announced in May its intent to purchase the outstanding shares of ELAU, a packaging machinery automation market leader. As a wholly owned, autonomous Schneider Electric company, ELAU will define the business model to achieve Schneider’s growth strategy in the increasingly global packaging automation market.
