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OMAC Awards First John Kowal Scholarships

Program honors a champion of automation.

Predictive Maintenance and Cybersecurity

Experts urge OEMs to adopt predictive maintenance services or risk obsolescence. Watch this Take Five video to find out about two new resources available from PMMI and OMAC to help protect your plant against cyber criminals.

OMAC Announces Newly Elected Members of Its Board of Directors

The Organization for Machine Automation and Control (OMAC) announces the new members of its board of directors for the period of three years.

OMAC's new website helps manufacturers share best practices for implementing innovation and automation in manufacturing.

OMAC Helps Manufacturers Share Best Practices

“When manufacturers come together and share best practices, the whole industry benefits,” says Bryan Griffen of PMMI. New OMAC website encourages and promotes your involvement.

OMAC Offers Guide to Define Best Practices for Secure Remote Access

OMAC released The Practical Guide for Remote Access to Plant Equipment which is the result of a workgroup of 37 industry leaders convened by OMAC to define best practices for secure Remote Access to plant equipment.

In honor of John's lifelong passion for fishing, donations to Michigan's Trout Unlimited are requested in lieu of flowers.

Packaging Industry Remembers John Kowal

John Andrew Kowal, loving husband, sibling, and uncle, passed away at the age of 62 on Wednesday July 8, 2020 at home with his family at his side. He fought the good fight against cancer until the very end.

Peeps are loaded into trays by the JLS Talon robotic pick-and-place system, featuring ABB FlexPicker vision-guided robots and Soft Robotics gripper EOATs.

Counting Down the Top 10 Articles of 2019 - #1: Robotic Lines Clear Peeps’ Automation Hurdles

Based on online clicks and unique page views, we're counting down the Top 10 articles of 2019. In the year's top article, we cover the popular Peeps brand on its journey from manual packing of a difficult product to an ultra-automated robotic line.

Four students successfully collaborated as a first time team on the PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO show floor.

VT, Hennepin, MSU & UW-Stout win Amazing Packaging Race

Four students successfully collaborated as a first time team on the PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO show floor.

Peeps are loaded into trays by the JLS Talon robotic pick-and-place system, featuring ABB FlexPicker vision-guided robots and Soft Robotics gripper EOATs.

Robotic Lines Clear Peeps’ Automation Hurdles

Produced in the billions, PEEPS® are so fragile and their packaging formats so varied that they resisted automation until a gentle but fast robotic pick and place primary packaging system solved a host of problems at once.