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M.E.T.R.I.C.S

M| Measure
E | Everything
T | That
R | Requires
I  | Improvement &
C | Customer
S |

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Go Straight to the Top

Horizontal is great on the weekend—chilling in the hammock with a good book.
It’s not good on the plant floor,

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Blown Cartons

To be completely honest with you, I’m a pretty lazy guy. I’m always looking for an easier ways to do

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Bright and Shiny Objects

As a plant engineering manager in the ’70s and ’80s I was sometimes accused of being an easy mark for

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Two Kinds of Green

Some consumers believe that packagers don’t care about either the environment or reducing waste. The truth is that packagers are

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WHY BUY?

Welcome to the first of a new monthly feature from Frain Group. “Line by line” will focus on how to

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SHRINK LABELS

Pat Reynolds of Packaging World magazine has always  something interesting to talk about. I finally got around to the December

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THE FENCE

English author G.K. Chesterton once wrote about the paradox of the fence. He asked the reader to suppose that they

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CHECKWEIGHING

Most packaging lines need checkweighing. Others need inspection for particulates including things like glass chips or metal particles.
Still others,

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www.getpocket.com

I’d never heard of Cabinet Magazine before but I suspect that I will be looking at it again from time

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CAPACITY PLANNING

What’s your plant capacity?
That’s not a trick question but can be a tricky one and not easy to answer.

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SPEED

Last month I started talking about packaging line speeds and found I had more words than space. This month I

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