Controls & Machine Components

OMAC and ISA to merge

On January 17, the Board of Directors of OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) Users Group announced that it had started detailed planning activities that will lead to a merger with ISA (The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society).

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

People

Kuka Robotics appointed Joseph Campbell director of strategic alliances for North America and Timothy Arndorfer southwest region account manager.

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Flow wrapping

Promises, Promises, What's In It for Me?

Emerging standards and improved data connectivity hold the promise of helping manufacturers tie their plant and business processes into one neat package.

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Controls & Machine Components

Linear slide brings benefits to bundler

As more and more customers seek quick-change capabilities with no downtime, Omega Design upgrades actuation in its shrink bundler.

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Controls & Machine Components

Clean-design valves ensure sanitation

Clean-design pneumatic valve terminals and actuators offer a high level of hygiene, as well as low maintenance.

February 28, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

What a package designer should know about packaging machinery

At the Flexible Packaging Conference 2005, ELAU’s John Kowal helps packagers coordinate great package designs with the right machinery to run the packages efficiently.

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Controls & Machine Components

Inkjet coders from PRISM ease PPG line maintenance (sidebar)

PRISM delivers HP inkjet technology with proven advantages

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Conveying & accumulation

Inkjet coders from PRISM ease PPG line maintenance

Case codes stay clear, crisp as personnel change print heads virtually “on the fly” with no tools

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Controls & Machine Components

Packaging machines 'go Mod' -- groundbreaking ARC report

Raise the value of packaging machinery by using modular software development practices

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Modular distributed I/O

The Telemecanique Advantys OTB from Schneider Electric is the latest addition in a family of smart, modular distributed I/O products optimized for use in modular distributed I/O architectures.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

WIDE-WEB THERMAL SOLUTIONS: M10e Series Printers

The M10e wide web thermal industrial printers are ideal for a range of applications.

January 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Kerk Motion Products: Slide for linear applications

Kerk Motion Products introduces its RGS™ 10000 Slide. Designed for linear-motion applications, it’s especially suitable for applications in the packaging field, including plastic bottle unscramblers, shrink bundlers, stretch banders, tray shrink-packaging systems, wraparound case packers, secondary orienters, and canister desiccant feeders.

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Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electronics Americ: Mitsubishi Electronics Americ: Servo motors

Mitsubishi Electric’s MR-J3 servo motors offer a smaller size and increased performance, ideal for packaging machinery. Other benefits include advanced vibration control, higher speeds and higher accuracies, and increased compatibility.

January 31, 2005