The Conference at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, as of 7-13-05 |
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Monday, September 26th |
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RFID
(Room N-252) |
OPERATIONS
(Room N-253) |
MATERIALS
(Room N-254) |
SECURITY
(Room N-258) |
MANAGEMENT
(Room N-256) |
9:10 - 9:55 am
(M1)
Unlocking RFID’s Power to Improve Packaging Productivity
Matt Ream, Senior Manager, RFID Systems, Zebra Technologies Corporation |
9:10 - 9:55 am
(M2)
What Is This Obsession With Speed? Slow Down and Improve Your Performance
Laurence Oldacre, Manager of Business Development, ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. |
9:10 - 9:55 am
(M3)
Barrier Options for PET Bottles: Luck or Logic?
Lawrence Mucha, Manager, Future Technologies Development, P.E.T. Terra Systems, Inc. |
9:10 - 9:55 am
(M4)
Packaging Security and the Pyramid of Complexity
Carolyn Burns, Global Marketing Manager, DuPont Security & Solutions |
9:10 - 9:55 am
(M5)
Clearing Your Packaging Through the FDA’s Food Contact Notification (FCN) Process in 120 Days
David Ettinger, Attorney at Law, Keller and Heckman LLP |
10:05 - 10:50 am
(M6)
Gaining ROI: How RFID Can Enable a “Track and Trace” Solution Within the Supply Chain
Serge Joris, Director of CoLOS Product Solutions, MARKEM Corporation |
10:05 - 10:50 am
(M7)
New Strategies for Tracking Equipment Maintenance and Repair Costs
Michael Holloway, Director of Technical Development and Reliability, NCH Corporation |
10:05 - 10:50 am
(M8)
Aluminum Beverage Containers: Innovations and New Markets
Craig Covert, Manager of Marketing & Communications, Alcoa Inc., and Jim Fisher, Vice President, Packaging Industry Affairs, Ball Corporation |
10:05 - 10:50 am
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10:05 - 10:50 am
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11:00 - 11:45 am
(M11)
RFID in the Consumer Goods Chain: Mandated Compliance or Remarkable Innovation?
Larry Shutzberg, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Rock-Tenn Company |
11:00 - 11:45 am
(M12)
Troubleshooting Molson-Coors’ Packaging Equipment
Paul Everitt, Asset Care Manager, Molson-Coors Brewing Co., and Russell D. Leonard, Vice President, Monitoring Technology Corporation |
11:00 - 11:45 am
(M13)
Paperboard Innovation and Marketplace Value
Brian F. Wagner, Vice President, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions, LLC |
11:00 - 11:45 am
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11:00 - 11:45 am
(M15)
Brand Enhancement Through Smart Packaging
Paul Butler, Director, Packaging Materials & Technologies Ltd. |
11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M16)
Guidelines for Using Passive RFID Transponders
Rick Fox, President & CEO, FOX IV Technologies, Inc. |
11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M17)
Robotic Packaging Automation Opportunities
Mark Senti, GM/Vice President, GSMA—Division of SWF Companies |
11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M18)
Aroma-Enhanced Packaging
Steven Landau, Co-founder & Chief Technical Officer, ScentSational Technologies |
11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M19)
Stamping Out Counterfeit Drugs With In-Seam RFID Tags Using Conductive Adhesives
Sushil Bhatia, Executive in Residence, Suffolk University, Boston, Mass. |
11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M20)
Coding Technology Advances Keep Pace With Packaging Trends
Scott Prochaska, Product Manager, Videojet Technologies Inc. |
Monday, September 26th
RFID Tracks 9:10 - 9:55 am
(M1)
Unlocking RFID's Power to Improve Packaging Productivity
Matt Ream, Senior Manager, RFID Systems, Zebra Technologies Corporation
Description: This vendor-neutral session will explore RFID in a packaging environment, and how "smart labels" can be used to tag packages, containers, cases, pallets and more to achieve higher performance and productivity standards. Attendees will learn: how to identify common operating procedures in warehouses and distribution centers that can be improved by RFID technology; realistic benchmarks for evaluating RFID's impact on operations and labor; productivity and supply chain efficiency; and how to use an RFID ROI calculator.
Monday, September 26th
RFID Tracks 10:05 - 10:50 am
(M6)
Gaining ROI: How RFID Can Enable a "Track and Trace" Solution Within the Supply Chain
Serge Joris, Director of CoLOS Product Solutions, MARKEM Corporation
Description: The world's largest consumer goods companies are looking for technologies and software that help them face tough challenges: new regulatory and retailer mandates, the need for increased operational efficiency, counterfeiting problems and product safety issues. Two of the newest requirements are RFID and traceability. In this session, learn how product traceability can be accomplished in the food, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods markets through a combined RFID/Track and Trace solution.
Monday, September 26th
RFID Tracks 11:00 - 11:45 am
(M11)
RFID in the Consumer Goods Chain: Mandated Compliance or Remarkable Innovation?
Larry Shutzberg, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Rock-Tenn Company
Description: This presentation will demystify RFID in the consumer goods supply chain, and is focused towards business professionals trying to understand all that's involved with RFID mandate compliance, as well as IT departments looking to build strategic RFID initiatives.
Monday, September 26th
RFID Tracks 11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M16)
Guidelines for Using Passive RFID Transponders
Rick Fox, President & CEO, FOX IV Technologies, Inc.
Description: One of the issues facing companies trying to comply with the Wal-Mart, Target, and other retailers' RFID directives is where to place the RFID tag on the carton or pallet. This session will cover the AIM Guidelines for locating RFID tags on shipping cartons and pallets. The session will also share some of the challenges in applying RFID tags in production environments.
Monday, September 26th
Operational Tracks 9:10 - 9:55 am
(M2)
What Is This Obsession With Speed? Slow Down and Improve Your Performance
Laurence Oldacre, Manager of Business Development, ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.
Description: In this session, Laurence Oldacre will describe the basic concept of Dynamic Simulation and Total Cost of Ownership models. Dynamic Simulation is a valuable tool for analyzing equipment-related process optimization for concept development, risk mitigation and managerial decision support.
Monday, September 26th
Operational Tracks 10:05 - 10:50 am
(M7)
New Strategies for Tracking Equipment Maintenance and Repair Costs
Michael Holloway, Director of Technical Development and Reliability, NCH Corporation
Description: In this session, attendees will learn about software available for automating information management, namely, managing equipment maintenance, parts replacement, and labor costs as well as scheduling work orders. These products allow the users to determine the actual cost to maintain each piece of equipment and identify problem areas to establish a proactive maintenance routine. As a bonus, each attendee will receive EMMA (sm) the Equipment Maintenance Management Application for no charge.
Monday, September 26th
Operational Tracks 11:00 - 11:45 am
(M12)
Troubleshooting Molson-Coors' Packaging Equipment
Paul Everitt, Asset Care Manager, Molson-Coors Brewing Co., and Russell D. Leonard, Vice President, Monitoring Technology Corporation
Description: The purpose of this session is to discuss the inventions and technological advances over the years that have led to the development of today's new generation of high-speed cameras and specifically illustrate them with some real-world troubleshooting examples at Coors breweries.
Monday, September 26th
Operational Tracks 11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M17)
Robotic Packaging Automation Opportunities
Mark Senti, GM/Vice President, GSMA - Division of SWF Companies
Description: This presentation provides a detailed analysis comparing "system" reliability and benefits between robotics and traditional packaging systems. Examples and case studies focus on the implementation of robotics automation by optimizing the capabilities and reliability of robots.
Monday, September 26th
Materials Tracks 9:10 - 9:55 am
(M3)
Barrier Options for PET Bottles: Luck or Logic?
Lawrence Mucha, Manager, Future Technologies Development, P.E.T. Terra Systems, Inc.
Description: This assessment process facilitates the identification of barrier technologies that will meet current and future business needs. It helps take the "fuzzy" out of the fuzzy front end of barrier technology selection — this is a means to limit up-front financial risk. It is organized into easy-to-use spreadsheets that use objective methods for assigning priorities, risks, and financial estimates.
Monday, September 26th
Materials Tracks 10:05 - 10:55 am
(M8)
Aluminum Beverage Containers: Innovations and New Markets
Craig Covert, Manager of Marketing & Communications, Alcoa Inc., and Jim Fisher, Vice President, Packaging Industry Affairs, Ball Corporation
Description: The purpose of the presentation will be to highlight recent innovations in the aluminum beverage can industry and explore new markets where beverage cans are making in-roads. Attendees will also learn about consumer attitudes toward packaging and be shown how companies can use the aluminum beverage can as a branding and promotional vehicle.
Monday, September 26th
Materials Tracks 11:00 - 11:45 am
(M13)
Paperboard Innovation and Marketplace Value
Brian F. Wagner, Vice President, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions, LLC
Description: This presentation is based on several months of research contracted by the Paperboard Packaging Alliance, consumer focus groups, retailer interviews and discussions with consumer packaged good (CPG) decision-makers to understand perceptions of packaging, packaging as a critical component of product equity and the role of packaging as an integrated part of the new value equation.
Monday, September 26th
Materials Tracks 11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M18)
Aroma-Enhanced Packaging
Steven Landau, Co-founder & Chief Technical Officer, ScentSational Technologies
Description: This presentation will explore how to give brand owners, manufacturers and packaging companies a new way to build memorable and compelling brand loyalty. Steven Landau will discuss the many benefits of using aroma in packaging, covering enhancing the aroma and taste of products, building a better relationship between the consumer and the brand, extending shelf life and the science behind aroma, taste and how aroma affects memory and consumer preference.
Monday, September 26th
Security Tracks 9:10 - 9:55 am
(M4)
Packaging Security and the Pyramid of Complexity
Carolyn A. Burns, Global Marketing Manager, DuPont Security & Solutions
Description: With the increase in concern over brand protection, there has been acceleration in the development of new anti-counterfeiting technologies. This presentation will assist brand owners in creating an overall brand protection program, covering areas such as risk assessment, technology selection, measuring results and enforcement.
Monday, September 26th
Security Tracks 10:05 - 10:50 am
(M9)
Product Security: Protecting against the "Fifth Column" Threat
Ken Bloomfield, President, Tellico Harbor Consulting
Description: Tracking product custody after it leaves the factory is only one part of product security. What must be considered is an adulteration prior to packaging. This presentation deals with the issue of product sabotage, and what can be done to prevent it. The current and future expansion of 21 CFR Part 11 (PAT) as well as the intrinsic need to ensure product purity should dictate a desire for more knowledge on what technology is available and how it works.
Monday, September 26th
Security Tracks 11:00 - 11:45 am
(M14)
Mass Serialization: The Bridge to RFID
Gregg Metcalf, Industry Market Manager, Nosco Security Protection, Nosco Inc.
Description: Attend this session and learn about leading edge brand authentication technologies, and how mass serialization can develop an electronic pedigree that's available for implementation today.
Monday, September 26th
Security Tracks 11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M19)
Stamping Out Counterfeit Drugs With In-Seam RFID Tags Using Conductive Adhesives
Sushil Bhatia, Executive in Residence, Suffolk University, Boston, Mass.
Description: FDA is taking serious steps toward the problem of counterfeit drugs and has issued regulations for compliance. The ultimate goal is to come up with a method that can result in trace and track of drugs from boxes to individual item marking, which could include the boxes, cases and laminated pills and tablets as they are dispensed and used by the patients. This requirement throws out enormous challenges and opportunities.
Monday, September 26th
Management Tracks 9:10 - 9:55 am
(M5)
Clearing Your Packaging Through the FDA's Food Contact Notification (FCN) Process in 120 Days
David Ettinger, Attorney at Law, Keller and Heckman LLP
Description: This session will include a discussion on the U.S. legal and regulatory aspects of materials used in food packaging applications under the laws and regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The primary goal of this presentation will be to educate companies in the food packaging industry on how they can market their products in the United States.
Monday, September 26th
Management Tracks 10:05 - 10:50 am
(M10)
RFID: Customer Contracts, Privacy, and the Law
Ronald Quirk, Attorney, Venable LLP
Description: The rapid implementation of RFID has gotten a lot of press during the past two years, but the important issues of vendor contracts and the impact of current and future legal and regulatory requirements that will face end-users once they implement RFID in their places of business have been percolating under the radar screen.
Monday, September 26th
Management Tracks 11:00 - 11:45 am
(M15)
Brand Enhancement Through Smart Packaging
Paul Butler, Director, Packaging Materials & Technologies Ltd.
Description: Dramatic forms of smart packaging innovation could help sustain and grow brands, and at the same time, counteract the pressures from private label and counterfeiters. Smart packaging has the potential to halt the erosion of brand value, outfox the counterfeiters, and bring back to brands something that made them great in the first place.
Monday, September 26th
Management Tracks 11:55 am - 12:40 pm
(M20)
Coding Technology Advances Keep Pace With Packaging Trends
Scott Prochaska, Product Manager, Videojet Technologies Inc.
Description: As packaging designs and materials change, the method for coding and marking those packages changes, too. This presentation will discuss these recent packaging trends, how they affect coding, and the coding methods available to meet these changing demands.