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Controls & Machine Components

Simco: Junction box

Simco's new Junction Box, for use with the Blue Bar HL and PerforMAX 3 HL, provides an intermediate connection point for installations in hazardous locations.

June 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Amacoil, Inc: Space-saving linear drive

The addition of an extra bearing in Amacoil Uhing model RG3 linear drives doubles side thrust capacity without significantly increasing the length of the drive.

June 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.: Right-Angle Gearmotors

Bison Gear and Engineering has introduced low-voltage additions to the 750 series right-angle gearmotor line. New additions will consist of 2 input motor options rated at 1/8 HP, 12VDC and 1/8 HP, 24VDC.

June 30, 2006

Cartoning

The vacuum factor in servo machinery

Are your packaging machines' vacuum gripping systems and servo controls optimized to deliver the highest cycle rates and use the least energy? Respective sector leaders PIAB and ELAU can show you how.

June 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Compact computer

]Arista now offers the ARP-2615AP, an industrial 15" LCD Panel Computer designed to meet demands for mission-critical, high-performance, reliable operation.

June 30, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Sentry wrapping machines leverage ELAU automation technology

A new family of end-of-line packaging equipment leverages PackML for a common look and feel across all machines in the family.

June 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Wyeth's tips to packaging machinery OEMs

Build machines that can share data with machines built by other OEMs and find better ways to streamline fault reporting.

June 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Ormec: Servo drives

Ormec has expanded its networked servo drive line with the release of the SD Drive family, featuring IEEE 1394b technology. More robust, efficient, and faster than the 1394a network, the new technology defines a roadmap to 3.2 G-bit signaling, as well as definitions for additional communications media.

June 30, 2006

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Anatomy of a servo labeler

What’s a rotary servo labeler? Only the biggest news in flexibility since the invention of the timing screw. And innovative machine builder K2 Engineering is delivering now.

June 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Linear Blow Molders

The SFL linear blow molders from Sipa Plastic Packaging Systems are highly flexible, with lower power consumption and fast configuration changes. SFL 6 platform provides production capacity to 1길 bottles/hr/cavity.

June 30, 2006

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TURCK, Inc: Low-Profile Junction Box

New low-profile M12 eurofast junction boxes from Turck provide efficiency and versatility for quick-disconnect wiring consolidation. The compact junction boxes are available in 4- or 8-port with single or dual output.

June 30, 2006

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Packaging machine OEM cuts programming time by 30 percent

A beverage carrier assembly machine builder cut engineering time by 30% with Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture.

June 25, 2006