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242 - LIVE from Austin, TX with Casey Nakamura

People of Packaging · 1 Feb 2024 · 27m

What this episode covers

Casey Nakamura, a packaging professional at Johnson & Johnson Vision, discusses building a dedicated packaging engineering group and implementing Specright to centralize specification data for medical device packaging. He explains how moving from fragmented responsibilities to a structured database of 7 engineers improves sustainability reporting and operational efficiency. Nakamura also highlights the industry-wide pain point of manual data tracking and vendor data hoarding, arguing that digital specification management is critical for compliance with regulations like California's EPR bill and for enabling faster innovation.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Johnson & Johnson Vision, Peak Packaging, Tommy Superfoods
Products
Packaging Peeks
Tools
Specright
Also
Cal Poly, IOPP, Spec Summit, Westpac

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