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CASE PACKING. After corrugated case blanks are erected and loaded automatically, cases proceed to a glue application station and
Machine Case Study
| June 8, 2011

Sliced cheese line is keyed by automation and accuracy

Among the highlights on this new line is a novel use of X-Ray scanning combined with powerful controls technology capable of processing data in milliseconds.
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Controls Product Brief
| May 22, 2011

Optimal drive sizing reduces energy consumption

B&R ensures that drives can be sized in a targeted manner using the SERVOsoft tool from ControlEng.
White Paper | March 9, 2011

Rotary Auger Filler innovations drive productivity and profitability

White paper from Spee Dee discusses the application of servo controls and a new innovative funnel design to rotary auger fillers for free-flowing and non-free flowing applications. Benefits include dramatic reductions in changeover time and increased efficiencies.
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Video demo shows tool-less changeover for servo-driven rotary auger filler
 Video | March 9, 2011

Video demo shows tool-less changeover for servo-driven rotary auger filler

Spee-Dee's Rotary Auger Filler is designed to accurately fill a broad cross section of products, such as spices, non-dairy creamers, coffee and cornstarch, into a variety of bottles and other rigid containers at rates of 100 to 400 units per minute.
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Machine Product Brief
| March 5, 2011

In-mold labeling (IML) system


Marbach’s versatile variaSPEED in-mold labeling (IML) automation for injection molded thin-wall packaging runs multiple products on one IML system.
Controls Product Brief
| January 12, 2011

Drive solution for low power applications

B&R’s ACOPOSmicro controls stepper motors and offers support for servo motors.
Controls Product Brief
| January 12, 2011

Servo gearbox

The alpheno® servo gearbox from Wittenstein improves precision and operating noise and provides an increase of up to 130% power density compared to the company’s alpha SP+.
Controls Product Brief
| January 3, 2011

Motion controller

PACMotion firmware version 1.5 from GE Intelligent Platforms can control up to 40 axes of synchronized motion all at the exact same servo update loop rate of 1ms independent of the number of motion axes.
Servo-driven mechanisms introduced to bottom-load case packer
 Video | November 30, 2010

Servo-driven mechanisms introduced to bottom-load case packer

Massman Automation Designs, LLC has added servo-driven mechanisms to the Sabel bottom-load case packer, as well as a lane divider infeed and a case lowerator on the discharge end of the machine.
Controls Product Brief
| October 5, 2010

3 component servo drive

The Allen-Bradley Kinetix 3 component servo drive from Rockwell Automation, which comes in models as small as 50 watts, provides the flexibility to tailor axes to a machine’s actual power requirement to minimize system size and cost.

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