Amazing Times – Amazing Technology

I remember watching futuristic television shows as a child that depicted machines that would talk to us and tell us things we needed to know. At the time it was too far-fetched to believe. We could not imagine that wireless communicators would actually become a reality. We live in amazing times.

I was invited to a meeting at our company the other day in which our Engineers were describing how our bottle unscramblers and cappers (and other machines) can be programmed to tell us who was running the machine at what times, what products they were running, if the machine was stopped, it can also identify by codes exactly which containers went through it and at what exact time. The full list of items that the machine can tell us is truly amazing. The machines can also be told what to do by touching the screen. We can set it up to run different containers at different speeds all by the touch of a finger tip. Add a wireless printer and you can print out lists of all the information you want. The machines can be set up to allow only certain individuals to have access to make changes. So an operator will have different access than a service technician who will have different access than an engineer.

We are fortunate to have all this technology at our disposal. Now we need to start taking full advantage of all it can do for us.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at http://www.neminc.com/.