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Get A MaX Start to your PACK EXPO International day with the MaX Member Forum Monday, Oct. 19. Enjoy a relaxed morning breakfast, a cup of coffee, and take a moment to ease into the day with fellow members.

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What happens when hundreds of women from across the packaging and processing industry gather in one room? Join us at the PPWLN Networking Breakfast on Oct. 20, from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m., and be part of a morning filled with inspiration, fresh ideas, and energy.

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Aligned to Win

Explore actionable guidance for improving lead management, strengthening trade show collaboration, aligning customer insights, optimizing communication and technology with the newest MaX Member Forum work product.

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Special Edition!

Your PACK EXPO Cybersecurity Playbook: Simple steps exhibitors and attendees can take to stay cyber secure before, during, and after the show.

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Network with Fellow Emerging Leaders

Expand your network among industry peers with the Young Professionals Reception, Oct. 18, 7:30-9:30 p.m., in one of Chicago’s most iconic venues! Make connections, exchange ideas, and strengthen relationships with free food, games, and drinks.

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Get a MaX Start!

Get A MaX Start to your PACK EXPO International day with the MaX Member Forum Monday, Oct. 19. Enjoy a relaxed morning breakfast, a cup of coffee, and take a moment to ease into the day with fellow members.

Sign Up

We're Back!

What happens when hundreds of women from across the packaging and processing industry gather in one room? Join us at the PPWLN Networking Breakfast on Oct. 20, from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m., and be part of a morning filled with inspiration, fresh ideas, and energy.

Grab Your Plate

Aligned to Win

Explore actionable guidance for improving lead management, strengthening trade show collaboration, aligning customer insights, optimizing communication and technology with the newest MaX Member Forum work product.

Download Your Copy

Special Edition!

Your PACK EXPO Cybersecurity Playbook: Simple steps exhibitors and attendees can take to stay cyber secure before, during, and after the show.

Read the Blog!

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SEE FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Pictured: Deven Fickes, Marketing Coordinator, Jeremy Brain, Plant Manager, Dana Greenly

Dana Greenly Ossid in Battleboro, NC at Ossid

Dana Greenly in Huntersville, NC at Bürkert Fluid Control Systems

President Dave Wineman and Director of HR, Angela Warkenthien, at Ryson International.

Dana Greenly, Member Outreach, visiting Doosan Robotics

Omega Design Corporation, Exton, PA

Glen Long visited GM Automation

Top to Top: Coming together for a quick group photo.

Top to Top Conference

Top to Top: Great conversations happening between sessions.

Top to Top: Catching up and making new connections.

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For Robotics Non-Adopters, a Missing Use Case Outranks Cost as the Top Barrier

OEM Magazine

OCT. 2, 2026

Slow robotics adoption is often blamed on cost. But for the end users who don't plan to buy, a more basic gap comes first: they can't point to a job on their line that a robot would do.

According to PMMI's 2026 Robotics in Packaging & Processing report, when end users were asked in an open-ended question why they don't expect to use a given robot type within 12 months, the most common answer was the same for every category: no applicable use case. Whether the technology was an industrial arm, a collaborative robot, a mobile robot, or a humanoid, "not needed / no applicable use case" ranked first. High cost followed as the second most-cited reason across all four.

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