Sudha Jebadurai
Chief Operating Officer
Manual vs. Automated Process Control -
Prepared for the Future?
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Session 2A - The Future in Blow Molding
9:20 a.m. to 10:05 a.m.
(see full conference schedule)
Presentation Description:
The reheat stretch blow molding process has advanced significantly over the past quarter century. Production speeds per cavity have increased tenfold. Material processing weights are reduced to a similar degree. Use of recycled materials is on the rise. This high speed, light weighted, rPET process is no longer a fit for antiquated manual process control methods.
Are you using time-consuming manual process control methods using manual quality assurance testing? Sending a mold round of bottles to the lab for quality testing while production is blindly flying by? Tired of manual blow molding processes, where the process engineer must stand by the line, to make process adjustments when the new batch of preforms are dumped, or a door swings wide open causing the environmental conditions to change? Seeing high levels of rejects, airveyor jams, labeler issues due to material distribution variability of the bottles produced?
Automation & Digitalization in the laboratory, facilitates quick feedback to the manufacturing operations, lowers the need to inaccurate, time consuming manual operations & increasing productivity.
Think Digitalization & Process Automation. Digitalization & Process Automation deliver increased factory productivity by streamlining the processes, facilitating predictive analytics & targeted maintenance, lowering running costs, delivering higher quality and higher production speeds.
Speaker Biography:
Sudha Jebadurai serves AGR in the capacity of Chief Operating Officer responsible for the Profit/Loss of the business. She has been with AGR for 23 years, starting as a software engineer and growing through the ranks as Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Director of Operations, before being elected as the COO. She has worked closely in development of the key products at AGR and also worked with key customers around the world on key projects. She understands the market needs, and how AGR can offer sustainable and efficient solutions for both the glass and the plastic packaging industry.
Sudha earned her Engineering degree from Pondicherry Engineering College and Masters of Business Administration from The Ohio State University in 2019. Sudha & Basanth have been married for 23 years, and have 2 sons, and live in Poland, Ohio.
