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Automatic ID solutions
 Video | January 29, 2013

Automatic ID solutions

A five-sided scan tunnel from Cognex handles a conveyor speed of up to 650 ft/min to provide automatic ID solutions in the logistics industry.
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Machine Product Brief
| January 23, 2013

X-ray inspection system

Eriez’ E-Z Tec XR-Pack X-Ray Inspection System effectively inspects for foreign objects (metal, glass, stone, bone and some plastics), count, seal integrity, weight, shape, item position, and presence/absence of items.
Top loading machine places blisters online.
Feature Article
| January 17, 2013

Hoffmann-La Roche AG's line automates personalized kit packaging

Seven sub-machines package clinical trial patient kits with efficiency and inspection security, minimizing labor costs.
Machine Product Brief
| December 17, 2012

Oxygen test system

Three new accessories for Mocon’s OpTech oxygen test system for food and pharmaceutical applications are now available: a portability kit; a needle attachment with fluorescing sensor material applied to its tip; and the new ImPULSE sensor that works with opaque materials as well as with retort applications.
Sun-Pac metal detector
Machine Case Study
| December 6, 2012

Versatile metal detector shines at Sun-Pac

Machine is moveable between eight different packaging lines for this contract packager of vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements.
Vision interface eliminates separate PC
 Video | December 4, 2012

Vision interface eliminates separate PC

Stephan Stricker, Product Manager for B&R Industrial Automation, demonstrates the B&R Cognex Camera integrated system.
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Wash-off labels for glass and PET bottles
 Video | November 29, 2012

Wash-off labels for glass and PET bottles

Avery Dennison spokesperson Robin Bell demonstrates Fasson® Wash-off labels, suitable for both glass and PET bottles, providing label converters with a replacement for wet-glue product. Suitable for body and/or neck labeling of light and dark containers, as well as bottled water in glass and large containers in recyclable PET bottles.
See a 'hot' Tabasco vision system in action
Video | November 28, 2012

See a 'hot' Tabasco vision system in action

See how Acquire Automation's custom vision systems shoots and processes multiple label views into one.
Full array of 1D/2D readers, vision systems
 Video | November 26, 2012

Full array of 1D/2D readers, vision systems

PACK EXPO 2012: Through its acquisition of Siemens’ machine vision systems business, Microscan has added to its 1D and 2D bar-code reading capabilities the ability to verify the integrity of labels and packages with machine vision systems.
Machine Product Brief
| November 26, 2012

Vision inspection for rigid containers

The Pilot Vision system from Agr International is an all-new vision-based inspection system that mounts inside the blowmolder to provide detection of random occurring defects during the production of PET bottles.

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