Controls & Machine Components

Hitachi America, Ltd.: 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.

January 2, 2013

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Controls & Machine Components

Control Techniques: AC, servo motor controls

Control Techniques' Unidrive M is a comprehensive family of AC and servo motor controls that enhances machine performance, reduces commissioning and diagnostic times, lowers machine costs, and provides flexibility.

December 14, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: 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.

December 13, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

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.

December 12, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

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.

December 12, 2012

Conveying & accumulation

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.

December 12, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

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.

December 12, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Take a quick virtual tour

See the latest in packaging automation technology from B&R Industrial Automation, all in just 3 1/2 minutes.

December 5, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Linear motor cuts TCO on packaging machines

From Linmot comes a linear servo motor that is especially suitable for packaging machinery manufacturers working to combine linear and rotary motion.

December 4, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Nestlé demonstrates power of OMAC

Nestlé showed how standards like PackML increase the productivity and innovation of packaging lines.

December 4, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.: Hypoid gearmotor

Bison Gear’s PowerSTAR, a new hypoid, maximum efficiency, right-angle gearmotor, uses the company's Robusticity design to improve energy efficiency for a smaller carbon footprint and maximum power density.

December 4, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Seidenader innovates with serialization

Thought you needed two or three computers to perform serialization functions on a packaging line? Seidenader, a subsidiary of Koerber Medipak, has teamed with B&R Industrial Automation to implement its serialization software on a single industrial hardened PC and touch panel with integrated soft PLC, I/O, vision interface capabilities and global support.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

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.

December 3, 2012