Packaging machinery specialist GREIF-VELOX has entered into a strategic partnership with ei³, a leading provider of secure industrial connectivity and IIoT applications. The collaboration will enable GREIF-VELOX filling and bagging systems to natively collect, contextualize, and securely share machine and process data – creating the basis for advanced monitoring, predictive insights, and continuous optimization.
By combining GREIF-VELOX’s packaging expertise with ei³’s secure connectivity and data platform, the partnership turns GREIF-VELOX equipment into digitally enhanced packaging systems. This digital layer forms the foundation of the VeloXpert program, GREIF-VELOX’s complete service solution for monitoring, optimizing, and supporting operating performance.
VeloXpert consolidates GREIF-VELOX’s digital and operational service offerings into a unified performance program. It includes VPN-based remote support, condition monitoring, data-driven analyses for efficiency improvement, and dashboards for machine and process oversight. In addition, VeloXpert covers traditional services such as commissioning, maintenance, training, and spare parts and warehouse logistics. With GREIF-VELOX’s “Packaging as a Service” (PaaS), financing options and supply concepts for consumables and wear parts complete the portfolio.
As an integral element of this solution, VeloInside provides a system-specific performance dashboard that visualizes real-time operating data. It enables users to identify inefficiencies, detect early warning signs, and implement targeted measures to enhance Greif-Velox Equipment Effectiveness (GVEE) — a metric based on the established Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) framework, adapted to the specific requirements of high-precision filling and bagging processes. GVEE combines availability, performance, and quality data to deliver a comprehensive view of line productivity and process reliability.
Expertise in High-Precision Powder Bagging and Liquid Filling
With decades of experience in powder handling, GREIF-VELOX delivers precise and clean solutions for ultralight and complex powders. The BVP and BVPV packers ensure high bagging accuracy and flexibility, while the VeloVac and VeloVac XL systems enable dust-free vacuum bagging with up to 400% compaction—ideal for challenging products like carbon black, silica, pigments or technical fibres. These technologies enhance safety, efficiency, and significantly reduce waste and logistics costs.
GREIF-VELOX also offers advanced expertise in liquid filling. For example, the fully automatic A-DOS-P1 system, designed for pallet-based applications in the chemical, petrochemical, and food industries, enables safe, high-volume filling of up to 40 drums or 15 IBCs per hour—combining automation, precision, and reliability.
ei³ Technology for Secure IIoT Connectivity
ei³ provides a secure connectivity infrastructure that allows manufacturers to integrate data capabilities across diverse machine environments – including new, existing, and legacy equipment. Through a set of gateway solutions, ei³ enables access to machine data regardless of the system's age or configuration, forming a scalable foundation for data analysis and optimization.
This infrastructure translates machine signals into structured insights, supporting monitoring, benchmarking, predictive maintenance, and continuous process improvement. Designed with a security-first approach, the platform has been in use for over 25 years and currently protects more than 190,000 industrial assets — without any reported security breaches.
New Dimensions in Powder Packaging
Sebastian Pohl, Managing Director of GREIF-VELOX:
“With ei³, we are combining our long-standing expertise in packaging technology with a partner that brings more than two decades of experience in secure industrial connectivity. Together, we are opening the door to a new dimension of efficiency, reliability, and transparency in powder bagging and liquid filling.”
Spencer Cramer, CEO and Founder of ei³:
“This partnership is a natural fit for ei³ because GREIF-VELOX shares our focus on using data to improve industrial performance while operating more responsibly. By making intelligence native to the packaging process, we enable customers to detect deviations earlier, reduce waste, and continuously improve efficiency — outcomes that not only strengthen productivity, but also reduce environmental impact.”
About ei³
ei³ has pioneered IIoT applications and AI-driven solutions since 1999, establishing itself as a trusted leader in industrial manufacturing. We unlock the power of every machine, empowering machine builders and manufacturers worldwide to turn manufacturing complexity into competitive advantage through tools that enhance efficiency, promote sustainability, and drive cost savings.
With headquarters in New York and development in Montreal, we serve customers through our comprehensive IIoT platform, powered by triple-redundant data centers in the USA, Germany, and China. Learn more at ei3.com