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Controls Product Brief
| September 30, 1998

Compact AC gearmotors

Indramat (Hoffman Estates, IL) introduces its family of compact, economical AC servo planetary gearmotors for high-torque performance for packaging equipment, robotics or material handling applications.
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These images, taken directly from the camera, show a neat layer and an irregular layer. The pallet on the right shows how skewed
Feature Article
| September 30, 1998

Robot gains 'eyesight'

Guided by a simple, compact vision system, a robotic depalletizer picks three 65-lb bags of seed at a time, handling even the most irregular loads without failing.
Feature Article
| September 30, 1998

Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more

Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Robotics.
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 1998

PET bottle handling system

Automated Production Systems' (New Freedom, PA) high-speed conveyor and accumulation system can handle up to 470 bottles/min. The system offers an automatic pallet handling system, complete line-speed modulation and pressureless combining.
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Feature Article
| August 31, 1998

PMMI expects growth in machine spending

Packaging machinery spending by U.S. manufacturers this year will likely rise by up to 3% more than it did in 1997. Strong investment is expected from personal care and household/industrial chemical markets.
Full-coverage in-mold labeling was the only way for Farm Fresh to reproduce eye-popping graphics on a non-round plastic containe
Feature Article
| August 31, 1998

Packaging positions ice cream for upscale sales

Farm Fresh's new all-plastic, rectangular ice cream package features full-coverage, in-mold-labeled graphics, believed to be one of the first applications of its kind in the U.S.
Machine Product Brief
| June 30, 1998

Washdown robot

FANUC Robotics (Rochester Hills, MI) has introduced the A-520i Washdown, a robot designed for precise, high-speed operation in harsh washdown environments, including food and pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
Feature Article
| May 31, 1998

Controls glossary for packagers

With the help of some readers, Packaging World has assembled a glossary that defines controls terms. Most important, these terms are defined in the context of packaging machinery so that virtually all readers can relate them to the machinery we're all familiar with.
Feature Article
| May 31, 1998

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control

Standardizing on SERCOS for digital motion control in packaging equipment permits Hershey to reduce construction, installation, start-up and maintenance costs.
Feature Article
| May 31, 1998

Future shock (sidebar)

Blue-sky packaging ideas
Many of Hershey?s SERCOS-compliant motion controllers (upper right corner of photo) are actually PCs running controller software
Feature Article
| May 31, 1998

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control (sidebar)

Understanding high-speed motion control
Controls Product Brief
| January 31, 1998

Compact servo motor

Platinum XT Series three-phase brushless DC servo motor is now available from Kollmorgen Motion Technologies Group (Radford, VA) in a compact housing for tight space requirements.
Machine Product Brief
| January 31, 1998

Printer/applicator

Impact Automation (Lewisville, TX) has introduced the PA450 Series of printer/applicators. Robotic articulating arm can place single or multiple labels anywhere within a flat plane on the product or package, in varying orentations.
The robot?s gripper head picks up a case (above) after its bar-code label has been scanned. The scanned information is used to i
Feature Article
| January 31, 1998

Robotic palletization protects Sandvik

Automated lifting and stacking of heavy boxes onto pallets helps this maker of mining products avoid worker injuries and $120ꯠ of additional labor costs.
Controls Product Brief
| December 31, 1997

Motion and position sensors

SmartImage Sensors from DVT (Norcross, GA) are low-cost, high-performance sensors that combine machine vision and intelligence so that position, orientation and identification deviations can be located and corrected.

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