AI preserves and shares thermoforming know-how: Machinery Minutes

On this episode of Machinery Minutes, our weekly news podcast with PMM editor Ron Shinn rounding up some of the top stories of the past week: 

• Thermoforming experts Conor Carlin and Mark Strachan have developed an AI-powered tool to help thermoforming companies struggling to find and keep skilled operators. 

• Pat Farrey, former head of SPE and now executive VP of PLASTICS, talks about the merger of the two organizations, leadership and improving the image of the plastics industry. 

• A new high-tech Kiefel thermoformer boosts production by 50 percent and uses 10 percent less energy.