Technology & Workforce: Using Smart Technologies to Bridge the Skills Gap, published by PMMI – The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, examines how smart technologies and strategies can mitigate rising skills gaps across the packaging value chain. Drawing on Vision 2030 Discovery session at PACK EXPO International 2024, surveys and roundtable feedback, analysis indicates key focus areas: workforce development and retention (onboarding and situational training), knowledge capture and documentation (exploded views and multilingual HMIs), and digital-tool adoption and automation (VR/AR, predictive maintenance and LLM-enabled assistants). Emerging patterns show firms tend to prioritize automating repetitive tasks and standardization; charts highlight adoption priorities and barriers. Download the report to discover where engineering teams are prioritizing investments to strengthen operational resilience.
Published by PMMI (authors Jorge Izquierdo, Vice President, Market Development, and Rebecca Marquez, Director, Custom Research) in December 2024. Based on pre-event questionnaire surveys, expert panel Q&A, and roundtable discussions with packaging & processing OEMs and CPG/end-user attendees at PACK EXPO International 2024, collected in 2024.
