Expert Breaks Down Packaging Machinery to its ABCs

“From the 26 letters of the English alphabet we can form an infinite number of words. If we know the letters, we can read any of those words even if we’ve never seen them before,” says John R. Henry, changeover wizard at Changeover.com and frequent contributor to Packaging Digest. “A couple hundred years ago Robert Fulton described what he called ‘The Engineer’s Alphabet.’ By understanding a few, probably less than 100 concepts — like gears, screws, levers, and more — we can understand any machine, no matter how complex.”

In this video, Henry shows how you can use this concept to grasp the inner workings of any packaging machine.

The video is sponsored by Frain Industries and gets a little commercial at the end. But I felt the message about The Engineer’s Alphabet was worth sharing.