Spencer Cramer founded ei3 in 1999 to pursue his passion for building highly reliable,secure, and efficient internet technologies for manufacturing. Under his direction, ei3 has become an award-winning global leader in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).His experience in establishing and managing technology companies for over 30 years is the driving force behind ei3. Spencer provides leadership and creative thinking for developing strategic plans, financing projects, licensing technology, and inspiring innovation. Spencer serves on the boards of PaceWorx, an energy assessment company, and OMAC, the Organization for Machine Automation and Control. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia. Spencer is a USCG licensed Captain and enjoys sailing with family and friends.
Emilian Axinia, M.Sc. Computer Engineering and Executive MBA, has accumulated over 25 years of experience in engineering and automation projects in the food and beverage industry. He led industrial projects for the global company Ecolab before managing his own company as a distributor of innovative automation technology in Romania. Since May 2007, Emilian Axinia has been part of COPA-DATA’s team in Salzburg, Austria. His focus as Industry Manager is to develop the business in the Food & Beverage industry by addressing the challenges faced by today’s manufacturing companies, for instance supporting their agile transformation journeys with software technology.
• Current OMAC Chairman
• Senior Principal Research Engineer with Nestle Purina Global Packaging Group
• Long history of involvement with OMAC
• 33 Years with Nestlé (Research and Manufacturing Engineering)
• Key Focus Areas are Packaging Equipment Engineering and Controls
• Frequent presenter at Pack Expo on Topics related to utiulizing PackML to drive line performance
OMAC History:
• Developed P&G PackML template which is now used across all P&G business units
• Trained over 400 system integrators, OEM’s, and internal engineers on PackML and programming examples
• Have been programming and consulting on PackML machines since 2008
• Member of OMAC PackML 2020(or 2022 :-) Update team
• Recipient of OMAC 2018 Past Chairman’s Award
Erik Veedfald is a Lead Release Train Architect for Arla Foods. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the industry. He has spent many years as an automation engineer, including owning his own company - Veedfald Electronic Aps in Denmark. Erik was key in getting Arla Foods back engaged with OMAC after an absence of several years. He completed his engineering degree from Aarhus University in 2006. He is a certified SCRUM Master and IT Architect.
