Machine control

Feature Article
| January 7, 2013

A partnership that drives both participants forward

General Mills’ Gregg Stedronsky and Aagard’s Steve Mulder share their thoughts on partnering, controls technology, and how to manage risk in a mutually beneficial way.
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Among the things beck packautomaten was able to do with the help from new drive technology was to eliminate the need for compressed air, an expensive form of energy.
OEM Application Note
| January 4, 2013

Drive technology serves up a customer-friendly shrinkwrapper

The newest shrinkwrapping system from this packaging machinery OEM makes good use of drive technology to minimize energy consumption and save on packaging materials.
Controls Product Brief
| January 2, 2013

Simple inverter

Providing economical, simple-to-use speed control solutions, the ultra-compact NE-S1 inverter is Hitachi’s next-generation inverter in their HP range of 1/2 to 3 hp.
Controls Product Brief
| December 13, 2012

EtherCAT coupler

Beckhoff’s EK18xx EtherCAT Coupler series integrates 12 built-in digital I/Os to reduce the costs and cabinet space requirements of Industrial Ethernet I/O systems.
News
| December 12, 2012

PC-based automation enhances food processing machines

Machinery can be managed, monitored and controlled with greater ease, development time is down and end users are happy.
News
| December 12, 2012

Design for competitive advantage

One thing frustrates me greatly when I’m talking with many packaging machine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). They are so drilled into thinking that their only competitive advantage is low price that they don’t look for other ways to add value to their products.
News
| December 12, 2012

A new approach to conveyors

Different products can be conveyed on a single line and moved in different directions, while an operator has complete control over the speed and direction of movement of the conveyed food products by implementing control commands virtually in real-time.
News
| December 12, 2012

OMAC committees focus on streamlining standard

A recent meeting of the OMAC Packaging Working Group’s PackML and PackSpec committees concentrated on clarifying and simplifying its standard to bolster increased acceptance and use of the standard by OEMs and end users.
Take a quick virtual tour
 Video | December 5, 2012

Take a quick virtual tour

See the latest in packaging automation technology from B&R Industrial Automation, all in just 3 1/2 minutes.
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Dividella pharma cartoner runs 80 to 240 cartons per minute
 Video | December 3, 2012

Dividella pharma cartoner runs 80 to 240 cartons per minute

Using a hundred servo axes, the reconfigurable, GMP design, modular Dividella cartoner from Koerber Medipak provides rapid changeover, recipe management, data access, detailed diagnostics, and simplified parameterization instead of programming, all from a graphical HMI. The control system from B&R features a unified software and hardware platform and is housed underneath the machine frame, minimizing footprint. Interfaces for vision and coding systems simplify integration.
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