Controls & Machine Components

Packaging Automation Forum a 'resounding success'

The Packaging Automation Forum, produced by Packaging World and Automation World magazines, was everything we hoped it would be when we began planning it last October.

April 30, 2006

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Flow wrapping

Bell-Mark Corp.: Bell-Mark Corp.: Continuous Motion Thermal Transfer Printer/Coder

Bell-Mark introduces the new 1200mm per second EasyPrint c. The new high speed EasyPrint c offers a floating printhead suspension to maximize substrate contact for the best quality print available.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Canfield Connector: Solenoid connector

The unique design of Canfield Connector's MCCR solenoid connector uses pass-through technology to enable the control of multiple solenoids, either parallel or independent devices, with a single connection to the controller.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

HP-based printing

HSA USA offers the HSAJet-TCU controller, designed to offer low-cost HP-based printing solutions for applications requiring high-resolution, high-quality printing for limited runs.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Automation Federation established

The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) has announced that its Executive Board has approved the establishment of The Automation Federation as an umbrella organization under which associations and societies engaged in manufacturing and process automation activities can work more effectively to fulfill their missions.

April 30, 2006

Cartoning

EEC forum reports lean, integrated and robotic trends

The Eastern Equipment Committee’s revamped annual forum features such notables as Changeover.com expert John Henry, mechatronic machinery developer Norden Pac and packaging automation innovator ELAU.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Industry Watch

TRACKING PACKAGING CHANGES

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Coming May 23-24

We’ve teamed up with sister publication Automation World to bring you the Packaging Automation Forum, our first conference. Hershey, Coors, Miller, P&G, Astrazeneca, Wyeth, and Lilly are among the firms whose representatives will be delivering presentations.

April 30, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Touchscreen facilitates custom wrapping

Stretch wrapper’s touchscreen controls store five pre-programmed wrap patterns that can be switched on the fly, accommodating custom wrap patterns.

April 30, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Sidel Inc: Gravity Weight Filler

The Sidel GWm low-to-high speed gravity weight filler has now extended its range to cover pasteurized milk products. Platform accommodates all varieties of plastic bottles at output rates from 6ꯠ to 40ꯠ bph.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Compact coupler

The new, compact BK7150 Bus Couplers from Beckhoff Automation are said to cost-effectively connect the CC-Link network to the entire Beckhoff I/O system.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Watlow: Integrated control loop

Watlow has introduced EZ-ZONE™ ST integrated control loop, which integrates temperature control, power control, safety shut-down, and power disconnect in a single package.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Baumer Electric: Cam encoder

Baumer Electric has introduced the MagRes Absolute Singleturn CAM Encoder, a general-purpose, rotarymotion encoder that acts as a programmable limit switch, replacing PLC or PC controllers in low-level operations.

April 30, 2006