BURNSVILLE, MN (August 21, 2019) — Forpak, the MultiSource brand of custom food packaging equipment, today announced that it has partnered with Wave7 to apply IIoT and cloud-based performance analytics to its fleet of machines.
Through this strategic partnership, Forpak and Wave7 will provide real time performance improvement for Forpak’s state of the art packaging machine fleet and customer base.
“Packaging lines and machines are one of the biggest opportunities manufacturers have for daily improvement,” said Dave Brownson, Engineering Manager. “It’s clear that OEMs like ForPak need to provide additional tools to improve performance for our customers.”
“With Wave7’s cloud-based packaging machine analytics, we are able to improve speed, decrease downtime and dramatically shorten troubleshooting time,” said Brownson. “Wave7 has the best in class solution for high performance packaging analytics and allows us to add even more value to our machines throughout the warranty period and beyond “.
“Forpak is a partner for their customers,” said David McKay, President of Wave7. “Forpak has proven time and again that complex challenges in food processing are their specialty, and Wave7 lets Forpak take the next step in that partnership by providing real time performance monitoring, alerts and loss analytics designed specifically for packaging.”
About Forpak
For 30 years, Forpak has delivered innovative custom packaging machines that transfer, lane, quality check, and stack product from freezers and coolers to downstream packaging.
To learn more about Forpak, please visit: https://www.forpak.com.
About Wave7
Wave7 is packaging performance as a service, providing cloud-based analytics, methods and apps that drive performance improvement on packaging lines and machines.
To learn more about Wave7, please visit: https://wave7.co