Home Jane Gerold Editoral Content Director Control A Team Approach to Packaging Automation Drawing on a old sports reference, Editorial Content Director Jane Gerold believes: There may be no “I” in “team,” but when it comes to the automation team, there are IT specialists—as well as a host of other professionals who develop and execute the manufacturing automation strategy. Control Merging Virtual with the Real World “Computing technology has advanced to the point where we can deploy virtual equipment to simulate the production process and generate control code.”