I leave Florida early tomorrow morning to start setting up our booth for the Pack Expo International 2012 show at McCormick Place in Chicago. It is always a busy time for the companies preparing for the show with a myriad of last minute items that need attention. You try and remember to pack and take everything you need and/or might possibly need. You also try to foresee possible emergency situations and be prepared to handle them.
I distinctly remember one show where a forklift operator was transporting a large, heavy machine down an aisle and somehow lost the machine off the side of the forklift. The sound reverberated throughout the huge hall. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the company planning on exhibiting a beautiful new machine in perfect working order, now had to come up with another plan. No one can plan for an emergency of that magnitude, but we do try to come up with creative ideas when the best laid plans go south.
For some individuals, emergency contingency planning brings out the best in them. For me, I always hope for smooth sailing and little to no last minute drama. Regardless, the show will open on Sunday, October 28 at exactly 9:00 a.m. and we will be ready to show off the very best of New England Machinery.
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 www.neminc.com.
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