Work Products

An OpX work product is a practical solution created to help companies overcome shared operational challenges. Developed through joint collaboration between OEM and CPG industry leaders, each work product addresses real-world issues identified by the Executive Council. These resources are built by industry, for industry, and are available at no cost to support organizations in driving improvement and efficiency.

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Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing

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Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing

PMMI’s Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network (PPWLN) highlights industry progress and promotes diversity by connecting women across generations to recruit, retain, and advance careers in packaging and processing.

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Safety
2025
Operator Training Standardization (OTS)

Operator Training Standardization (OTS)

Focused on how to transition proficient and capable individuals into highly technical and qualified operators through new and more “with the times” thinking and methods, OTS emphasizes the importance of rethinking traditional training models and embracing modern, outside-the-box methods and tools that resonate with today’s workforce.

Safety
English
Productivity
2025
Data Management Standardization

Data Management Standardization

Focused on data prioritization and the effectiveness of how it’s presented to reach the efficiency mission as fast as possible, DMS addresses the challenge of filtering overwhelming amounts of production data into actionable insights, ensuring that the right information reaches the right people at the right time.

Productivity
English
Maintenance
2024
Remote Equipment Access

Remote Equipment Access

The Remote Equipment Access: Options Analysis provides a common understanding of the relative pros and cons of various common industry methodologies for remotely accessing equipment installed in manufacturing facilities.

Maintenance
Spanish
Capital Projects
2024
RFP Guidelines & Template For CPG Industry (Spanish)

RFP Guidelines & Template For CPG Industry (Spanish)

Las Directrices RFP proporcionan un proceso de pensamiento común y sistemático que permite una mayor claridad y comprensión de los requisitos del proyecto de capital que resulta en mejores resultados para todas las partes interesadas involucradas en el proceso de solicitud de propuesta.

Capital Projects
Spanish
Engineering
2024
Best Practice Transitioning Flexible Material (Spanish)

Best Practice Transitioning Flexible Material (Spanish)

La transición de materiales flexibles puede implicar cambiar procesos, tipo de empaque, diseño o equipo. Esta guía ayuda a fabricantes a garantizar una transición eficiente involucrando a las partes relevantes y asegurando prácticas efectivas en líneas de empaque.

Engineering
Spanish
Maintenance
2024
Remote Equipment Access (Spanish)

Remote Equipment Access (Spanish)

Acceso remoto a equipos: análisis de opciones proporciona una comprensión común de los pros y los contras relativos de varias metodologías comunes de la industria para acceder de forma remota a equipos instalados en instalaciones de fabricación.

Maintenance
Spanish
Engineering
2024
Digital Transformation Roadmap (Spanish)

Digital Transformation Roadmap (Spanish)

Esta guía destaca los beneficios de la transformación digital para usuarios finales, OEM y SI. Ofrece mejores prácticas de implementación y muestra resultados reales que validan su impacto en la industria.

Engineering
Spanish
Capital Projects
2024
One Voice for Acceptance Tests (Spanish)

One Voice for Acceptance Tests (Spanish)

El Grupo de Soluciones de Proyectos de Capital de OpX Leadership Network se formó para mejorar la comunicación entre todas las partes interesadas durante el proceso de transacciones comerciales que involucran bienes de capital.

Capital Projects
English
Engineering
2024
One Voice for Hygienic Equipment Design for Low-Moisture Foods

One Voice for Hygienic Equipment Design for Low-Moisture Foods

General standards can be hard to apply to specific processes or products. While they help meet baseline compliance, low-moisture foods face higher food safety and recall risks—making targeted, risk-based approaches essential.

Engineering
English
Capital Projects
2023
One Voice for Acceptance Tests

One Voice for Acceptance Tests

The OpX Leadership Network’s Capital Projects Solutions Group has been formed to enhance the communication among all stakeholders during the process of commercial transactions involving capital equipment.

Capital Projects
English
Engineering
2023
Best Practice Transitioning Flexible Materials

Best Practice Transitioning Flexible Materials

In CPG operations, transitioning flexible materials can include changing the type of packaging, altering its design or shape, or updating equipment and machinery used to handle, fill, and seal products throughout the packaging process.

Engineering
English
Engineering
2023
Digital Transformation Roadmap

Digital Transformation Roadmap

Understanding the most effective ways to carry out digital transformation is important to end users, OEMs and systems integrators (SIs) alike.

Engineering
English
Sustainability
2023
Journey to a Successful ESG Program

Journey to a Successful ESG Program

This work product reflects the transition the business world is making from a focus on sustainability to the broader observation of ESG.

Sustainability
English
Diversity
2022
Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing

Voices of Women in Packaging and Processing

PMMI’s Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network (PPWLN) highlights industry progress and promotes diversity by connecting women across generations to recruit, retain, and advance careers in packaging and processing.

Diversity
English
Maintenance
2020
Asset Reliability Roadmap

Asset Reliability Roadmap

Optimizing your company’s current investment in existing production equipment is a widely shared goal in the consumer products industry. Too often the answers have involved significant expenditures, automation, or human resources.

Maintenance
English
Capital Projects
2020
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

These guidelines help CPGs and OEMs shift focus from price tag to Total Cost of Ownership by outlining the true ongoing costs of running machinery—from design and application to maintenance and environmental impact.

Capital Projects
English
Sustainability
2020
Sustainability Journey Resource Guide

Sustainability Journey Resource Guide

Food and beverage (F&B) and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, along with their suppliers, have demonstrated a commitment to delivering high quality products to customers and end-use consumers while pursuing continuous improvement in their operations.

Sustainability
English
Quality
2020
Pathogen Reduction Validation

Pathogen Reduction Validation

Validation driven, the design of process steps and control measures, like monitoring and verification procedures that follow, is a critical requirement in preventing pathogenic risks in food and is especially critical in the area of low-moisture foods.

Quality
English
Safety
2018
Worker Safety Readiness for the CPG Industry

Worker Safety Readiness for the CPG Industry

This guide defines best practices to support the industry’s “drive to zero” safety goal. It addresses behavioral risks, provides audit guidelines, and includes surveys to assess the effectiveness of worker safety programs.

Safety
English
Capital Projects
2018
RFP Guidelines & Template For CPG Industry

RFP Guidelines & Template For CPG Industry

The RFP Guidelines provide a common, systematic thought process that enables greater clarity and understanding of capital project requirements that results in better outcomes for all stakeholders involved in the request for proposal process.

Capital Projects
English
Quality
2018
Clean-In-Place (CIP)

Clean-In-Place (CIP)

Clean-in-Place (CIP) is used to clean product contact surfaces in food, dairy, beverages, cosmetics, and more—without disassembly—by circulating, spraying, or flowing chemical solutions through the system.

Quality
English
Productivity
2017
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Guidelines

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Guidelines

The OpX report defines OEE for broad CPG industry use—boosting productivity, reducing costs, and supporting growth. New tools now help teams better project the value of OEE improvements and confidently measure their impact.

Productivity
English
Productivity
2017
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Starter Tool

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Starter Tool

Get a better understanding of the various factors that can have an impact on Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). This guide will help you realize opportunities for savings in your production processes and maximize efficiency on the plant floor.

Productivity
English
Productivity
2017
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Benefits Calculator

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Benefits Calculator

The OpX OEE Benefits Calculator identifies plant floor efficiency gains by calculating labor savings, reduced overtime, and improved material yield through fewer unplanned stops, helping meet production targets with less waste.

Productivity
English
Quality
2017
Allergen Cleaning Validation Checklist

Allergen Cleaning Validation Checklist

Food allergies affect an estimated seven to eight million consumers in the United States. Although most food allergies cause relatively mild and minor symptoms, some can cause severe reactions, and may even be life threatening to particularly sensitive individuals.

Quality
English
Quality
2016
Spotlight on Baking

Spotlight on Baking

Ready-to-Eat food producers must prove their processes reduce pathogens to safe levels. This involves scientific evidence that thermal processing prevents illness from contaminated raw materials, with process parameters confirming safety standards.

Quality
English
Engagement
2015
Workforce Engagement

Workforce Engagement

Disengaged employees cost U.S. companies up to $550B/year. This 79-page OpX report, co-sponsored by PMMI and GE, offers proven strategies to boost workforce engagement, empowerment, and leadership—featuring insights from execs at General Mills, Dole, SunOpta, and more.

Engagement

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