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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Automation software makes real-time adjustments

With an industrial PC operating as its main controller, this blister-pack machine recalculates cam tables with each cycle.

May 31, 2005

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Controls package brings servo benefits to bagger

An ‘off-the-shelf’ as opposed to proprietary controls solution brings multiple benefits to this maker of vf/f/s baggers.

May 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

Servos and robotics solve pouch-packing challenge

Stand-up pouches in three different sizes are automatically case packed at speeds to 90/min by this 12-axis, servo-controlled, robotic case packing system.

May 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Versatile, high-definition inkjet coder from ATInfo wins for Faribault Foods

AUTOPRINT® system adds flexibility needed in growing contract packaging operation, eliminates clean-up ritual

May 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

IMI Norgren, Inc: Pneumatic valves

Norgren offers its new range of plug in subbase valves designed with flexibility and configurability. The VS Series fulfills the requirements of a variety of markets such as packaging, paper and printing, materials handling, machine tools, and the automotive industry.

May 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

SKF USA: SKF USA: Profile rail guides

SKF® profile rail guides from SKF Motion Technologies provide precise positioning, smooth operation, high load-carrying capacity, high stiffness, and unlimited stroke for a variety of linear-motion applications.

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Hitachi America, Ltd.: Micro variable-speed drives

Hitachi L200 series micro variable-speed drives are equipped with side-by-side mounting capability, built-in timing logic and analog input math (PLC) functions, DIP-switch hand-off-radio, and RS485 Modbus RTU communication interface.

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Controller-independent packaging machinery?

“As we aim at capturing more international business, we know we have to offer either Rockwell or Siemens controllers.”

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Largest ever Make2Pack working session

Hard on the heels of interpack in Dusseldorf, Germany, 21 members of the Make2Pack group held a European working meeting on 28-29 April, at member company ELAU’s headquarters in Marktheidenfeld, outside Frankfurt am Main.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pacific Cycle shifts into RFID

Pacific Cycle deploys item-level RFID for its boxed bicycles.

April 30, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Sidebar

• A Kaps-All AU-3 unscrambler that places high-density polyethylene bottles onto a conveyor. Glass bottles are loaded on a feed table that are fed into a [b]McBrady[n] Model #200 Orbit bottle cleaner that uses air to do the job before placing bottles back onto the conveyor.

April 30, 2005

Cartoning

Strong presence for ELAU at Interpack

One automation supplier, ELAU, was the buzz of the 2005 Interpack show

April 30, 2005