Category: Concept

Portioned Convenience

Who doesn’t like a little honey in their tea?
I recently stumbled across a raving review on Nature Nate’s Honey

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Aligning Space and Time

According to Wikipedia, space-time is the concepts of time and three-dimensional space regarded as fused in a four-dimensional continuum.
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Activity and Achievement

As head coach over a span of 12 years, John Wooden lead the UCLA men’s basketball team to 10 championship

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Connecting Islands of Automation

In John Henry’s white paper, Flat-Top Conveyor Basics, he explains that “conveyors are intelligent bridges between islands of automation.”
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That New Machine Smell

Frain buys and resells new and used equipment.  Why would we buy new and used equipment?
Many times, our team

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Donuts to Dollars

Quick, what business are you in? It sounds silly but a lot of companies don’t know.
McDonald’s is the classic

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An Educational Guess

In our book, Secrets of Buying Packaging Machinery*, Rich Frain and I discuss gathering information as the first step in

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Off the Shelf

Picking items off the shelf as you walk through a store is convenient. Still, there are individuals that prefer an

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Taxonomy of Packaging Machinery

I’ve been working with packaging machinery for longer than I want to confess. One issue that has always bothered me

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Cross the Bridge

You may have heard the saying, “Life is a bridge.  Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
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Education

Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Moneyball) is a favorite author who can make anything interesting. His latest book The Undoing

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Magnify Success, Minimize Failures

With equipment projects, there’s an easy way and a hard way.
There’s a course that leads to minimized risks, faster

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