Controls & Machine Components

Low profile, 'flat' linear motors

Aerotech offers its BLMFS5 Series ‘flat’ linear motors that provide 25% more power, in an equivalent envelope, than competing models, company says.

July 31, 2005

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Conveying & accumulation

Drinktec preview: what's new in labelers?

A number of new servo labelers take center stage at the big drinktec beverage manufacturing show, September 12-17, Munich, Germany.

July 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

FlexTab feeder

Uhlmann• handles 1ꯠ products/min/lane in cold or hot-forming applications with either continuous or intermittent motion• features fast format changes without tools and electronic settings of format parameters• provides gentle product handling with vacuum cleaner and breakage separation, as well as light-barrier-controlled product release

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labelers upgradeable to RFID

Weber Marking Systems’ new RFID Ready program makes it possible for companies to obtain Weber label printers and printer-applicators that can be upgraded in the future to include the RFID technology.

July 31, 2005

Cartoning

The road to Las Vegas: PFM does M2P, IMA intros BFB CP18, ARC on ELAU

This week’s PACK EXPO Preview explains an alphabet soup of acronyms: PFM announces a Make2Pack machine, IMA intros side-loading case packer, ARC automation analyst reviews ELAU acquisition

July 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Deluxe RFID solution is scalable

Deluxe Media Service’s RFID for boxed DVDs implemented at three distribution centers to meet a retailer mandate is flexible and scalable.

July 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp.: PLC/motion control

Rexroth IndraMotion for Packaging, the new PLC/motion control system for packaging, offers full motion and logic integration in a single hardware configuration.

July 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

National Instruments: Compact FieldPoint devices

National Instruments has introduced 2 new Compact FieldPoint devices that allow for a reduced number of required modules and a significantly reduced system jitter.

July 31, 2005

Controls & machine components

Cognex Corporation: Machine vision support

The Cognex VisionPro PC vision software now supports the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET programming environment. VisionPro users can easily integrate third-party .NET objects into their vision applications and readily integrate vision applications with their automation systems.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Oracle Corp.: Oracle Corp.: Oracle Corp.: Enterprise transaction module

Online Development's xCoupler enterprise transaction module for Allen-Bradley ControlLogix controllers provides two-tier data exchange between plant floor devices (sensors, actuators, drives, bar-code scanners, robots, RFID controllers) connected to the controller and enterprise servers.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Mobile RFID

If you have fixed your data collection plans solely on RFID reader-antennae portals, then you may want to recalibrate your strategy a bit. Vendors offer wireless mobile solutions that permit flexible alternatives to fixed portals for RFID data acquisition.

July 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Controls package brings positioning accuracy and flexibility

Engineers responsible for programming the four-axis collating and infeed system on this robotic tray packer appreciate the modularity of the controls architecture.

July 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Servo-driven decorating system brings benefits

With 46 servo-driven axes of motion, this tube-decorating system gives tube makers 'infinite control' over printing and cap application.

July 31, 2005