Times are fast changing. A dynamic economic scenario worldwide has sparked a new found interest in automation to make business processes more effective and efficient.

Aside from the incessant drive to make packaging machinery more productive, the coming year will see the conscious leveraging of automated packaging systems as a strategic business advantage.

According to a new white paper, trends to watch for – and hopefully implement in your own packaging operations – include machineability as the top challenge to sustainability, fast changeover, flexibility, high-speed packaging, increased quality, improving supply chain efficiencies , modularity, lean packaging principles, tighter integration with business systems, solutions for SKU proliferation, OEMs taking a systems approach, cost reduction profile filling and smaller footprints.

The spotlight on Automation as an answer to making packaging more viable and sustainable has never shined brighter.