2025 Engineering Best Practices
2025 Engineering Best Practices, published by PMMI – The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies in November 2025, examines emerging operational and organizational trends across packaging and processing equipment manufacturers and draws on recent surveys and in‑depth interviews with PMMI members as an update to the 2022 edition. The analysis indicates three focus areas—workforce development and retention, tribal knowledge capture and structured documentation, and digital-tool adoption with version control—and generally shows that companies are piloting mentoring, modular CAD/BOM templates, and digital handbooks to bridge skill gaps. Charts highlight differences by company size and technology maturity, and emerging patterns show phased tech roadmaps tend to improve scalability. The report reveals where engineering teams are prioritizing investments to strengthen operational resilience.
Why read this report?
- Analyze packaging engineering workforce tenure and retention strategy effectiveness
- Explore shifts in machinery version-control practices and ERP integration
- Identify trends in packaging tribal knowledge transfer and documentation systems
- See how sustainability-driven materials selection affects packaging design and scalability
- Assess how machinery automation and controls engineering affect project throughput
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Published by PMMI Business Intelligence (PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies) in November 2025. Based on quantitative surveys (72 PMMI member responses) and six in‑depth qualitative interviews with PMMI members collected in 2025.
