Machine Product Brief
| September 5, 2007

LCD monitors

AutomationDirect has added the Atlas™ line of industrial-grade LCD color monitors to its list of
Machine Product Brief
| October 31, 2004

Automatic film splicing system

Ishida Atlas snack bag makers from Heat and Control feature a splice-on-the-fly option that automatically attaches new
Machine Product Brief
| March 31, 2002

Weigher/form/fill/sealer

Designed specially for salty snack foods, Heat and Control’s (Hayward, CA) integrated weigher/form/fill/sealer combines the Atlas™ universal bagmaker and the Millennium™ multihead weigher into a single packaging system that produces filled bags at speeds to 200/min, while minimizing film waste.
Materials Product Brief
| January 31, 1998

Baffle bag

The Baffle Bag from Atlas Bag (Skokie, IL) is designed to stay square, rather than round out, when filled. The idea is to maximize the cubic area within the bag, thus allowing the same amount of product as in a standard bulk bag while requiring less headroom.
Controls Product Brief
| October 31, 1997

Servo control

Atlas Copco Controls (Sewickley, PA) has introduced the SimPL, a point-and-click servo control that simplifies motion control setup. While most motion controllers require a programmer to learn a new language, the SimPL has no syntax to remember.
Controls Product Brief
| January 31, 1997

Motion controller

Atlas Copco's (Sewickley, PA) new motion controller offers improved positioning performance over previous versions. The Atlas DMC 2.0 employs an enhanced feedforward PID (proportional integral derivative) servo algorithm, improved smoothness in master/slave and electronic CAM applications, and faster respones to system faults with detection in firmware.
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 1996

Shipper for cheese

An alternative to traditional wooden shippers for cheese, the Atlas 640 Shipper(TM) from A.R. Arena Products (Rochester, NY) is made of ABS. It uses a patented "fixed-corner" design to eliminate steel banding and brackets.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 1996

Products brochure

Western Atlas Inc.'s Material Handling Systems Div. (Hebron, KY) has introduced a full-color, 20-page brochure that describes each of the firm's product lines in detail, including AS/R systems, sortation products, palletizers, table-top conveyors, case conveyors and monorail, and software and controls.
Materials Product Brief
| June 30, 1996

High-speed palletizer

Western Atlas' (Hebron, KY) von Gal Z-5 OmniWrap(TM) high-speed palletizer has a 360° monorail-type stretch wrapper built into the hoist area.
Machine Product Brief
| April 30, 1996

Lane divider

The Translide(TM) lane divider from Western Atlas (Hebron, KY) accepts product from a single infeed line, divides it and transports it into two outfeed lines.
Materials Product Brief
| March 31, 1996

Newswrap palletizer

Western Atlas (Kebron, KY) has introduced the von Gal Z-3 NewsWrap(TM) palletizer. It decreases printers' material handling costs by reducing equipment needs, floor space requirements, maintenance and personnel requirements.
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 1995

Thermal printer

Esselte Meto (Booth 3127) will introduce the Atlas Model AS40 thermal printer. This thermal bar code printer has HP Laserjet emulation and 300 dpi print resolution.