Quality Control in the Packaging Industry</H1> Complete quality control in one package. </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV><DIV id="p_lt_ctl04_pphBC_p_lt_ctl01_TextPanel_paneldiv" class="panel text-panel white"><DIV class="container "><DIV class="header"><DIV class="row"><DIV class="col-sm-8 col-sm-offset-2"><H2><B>Packaging Quality Control</B></H2> </DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="row"><DIV class="text-column col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-ms-12 col-xs-12"><P>Packaging manufacturers making cans, jars, plastic bottles and containers, closures, folding cartons, and more for medical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, cosmetics, and other consumer and industrial goods face increasing global competition. <BR/> <BR/> Packaging quality managers rely on InfinityQS solutions to gain visibility within and across plants, often around the globe, to ensure consistency and quality control in the production process. Continuous quality checks and process improvements keep them cost-competitive and improve the bottom line.<BR/> <BR/> Packaging producers also face the following challenges:</P> <UL> <LI>Frequently changing customer requirements such as increased shelf life, convenience features, high quality graphics, and new shapes and sizes</LI> <LI>Demand for sustainable and lower basis-weight materials</LI> <LI>Increasing cost of raw materials</LI> <LI>Geographically dispersed production facilities as mergers and acquisitions continue</LI> </UL> <P style="text-align: left;"> </P> </DIV><DIV class="text-column col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-ms-12 col-xs-12"><IMG alt="Packaging Quality Control" src="https://infinityqs-web.azureedge.net/InfinityQS/media/assets/images/tabbed-content/inset-images/your-business-case/packaging/packaging-line.jpg" style="width: 551px; height: 210px;"/><BR/> <BR/> Packaging quality managers rely on InfinityQS<SUP>®</SUP> ProFicient<SUP>™</SUP> <A href="/resources/what-is-spc">Statistical Process Control (SPC)</A> software to gain visibility within and across plants, often on a global basis, to ensure consistent product quality and make continuous process improvements that improve the bottom line. </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV id="p_lt_ctl04_pphBC_p_lt_ctl01_TextPanel1_paneldiv" class="panel text-panel light infinity"><DIV class="container "><DIV class="header"><DIV class="row"><DIV class="col-sm-8 col-sm-offset-2"><H2><STRONG>Delivering continuous improvements</STRONG></H2> </DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="row"><DIV class="text-column col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-ms-12 col-xs-12"><P>Demand for sustainable packaging and internal cost reduction efforts are resulting in “down-gauging” materials. These thinner and lighter-weight packaging materials leave little room for production errors during blow molding, injection molding, can drawing, or other package-forming processes. Packaging quality managers need to proactively prevent defects and scrap, reduce product changeover time and waste, and increase production efficiency by monitoring processes in real time.<BR/> <BR/> </P> </DIV><DIV class="text-column col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-ms-12 col-xs-12"><A href="/our-capabilities">InfinityQS ProFicient SPC software</A> provides real-time automated shop-floor data collection and analysis to meet these needs and deliver:<BR/> <UL> <LI>More efficient product changeovers with less waste</LI> <LI>Actionable data that drives proactive improvements early in production processes</LI> <LI>Less process variability for more consistent products</LI> <LI>Significantly reduced scrap rates</LI> </UL> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV id="p_lt_ctl04_pphBC_p_lt_ctl01_TextPanel2_paneldiv" class="panel text-panel white"><DIV class="container "><DIV class="header"><DIV class="row"><DIV class="col-sm-8 col-sm-offset-2"><H2><STRONG>Increased visibility</STRONG></H2> </DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="row"><DIV class="text-column col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-ms-12 col-xs-12"><P>Whether you have a single packaging production facility or plants across the globe, you need real-time and accurate data that is visible from the production floor to the corner office to:</P> <UL> <LI>Prioritize improvement efforts</LI> <LI>Compare production-line capability</LI> <LI>Ensure product consistency</LI> <LI>Reduce costs</LI> </UL> </DIV><DIV class="text-column col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-ms-12 col-xs-12"><IMG alt="InfinityQS Provides Increased visibility" src="https://infinityqs-web.azureedge.net/InfinityQS/media/assets/images/tabbed-content/inset-images/your-business-case/packaging/visibility.jpg" style="width: 551px; height: 210px;"/> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV id="p_lt_ctl04_pphBC_p_lt_ctl01_TextPanel3_paneldiv" class="panel text-panel light"><DIV class="container "><DIV class="header"><DIV class="row"><DIV class="col-sm-8 col-sm-offset-2"><H2>Key capabilities</H2> </DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="row"><DIV class="text-column col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-ms-12 col-xs-12"><A href="/our-capabilities">InfinityQS ProFicient software</A> provides these capabilities, and the ProFicient On Demand cloud solution makes it quick and easy to get all production facilities, including those acquired over the years, on a single, enterprise-wide solution without losing historical data from legacy systems. And user-configurable language settings make it easy to deploy within and across multi-language plants.<BR/> <BR/> Packaging manufacturers using ProFicient typically see significant improvements in: <UL> <LI><STRONG>Production capabilities</STRONG>: Real-time quality control data tracking and trend analysis enables accurate and timely decisions for process improvements.</LI> <LI><STRONG>Product consistency</STRONG>: Within and across plants, real-time monitoring of resin parameters, thickness, weight, resistivity, uniformity, vision system data, and other factors reduces scrapped product.</LI> <LI><STRONG>Traceability</STRONG>: Easily track and trace FDA regulated packaging (Medical & Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage), reducing recall time and costs.</LI> </UL> </DIV><DIV class="text-column col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-ms-12 col-xs-12"><IMG alt="InfinityQS ProFicient Software Key Capabilities" src="https://infinityqs-web.azureedge.net/InfinityQS/media/assets/images/tabbed-content/inset-images/your-business-case/packaging/management-looking-at-report.jpg" style="width: 551px; 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The manufacturing data is analyzed in real time with the appropriate statistical methods to provide a picture of what we are making in production of a batch or production lot.” </BLOCKQUOTE> </DIV> <DIV class="col-sm-4 col-sm-pull-8 col-lg-3 col-lg-pull-9 byline"> <STRONG>Robert Hayes</STRONG><BR/> Director of Quality at Alcan Packaging </DIV> </DIV> </DIV><DIV class="quote seperator-sm slick-slide" data-slick-index="3" aria-hidden="true" style="width: 940px; position: relative; left: -2820px; top: 0px; z-index: 998; opacity: 0;" tabindex="-1" role="option" aria-describedby="slick-slide13"> <DIV class="row"> <DIV class="col-sm-8 col-sm-push-4 col-lg-9 col-lg-push-3"> <BLOCKQUOTE> "When we tested the software against our previous SPC provider, InfinityQS stood out as a solution that provided full capabilities to production processes analysis as well as the scalability to expand with our global needs.