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.

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Eurotherm: Eurotherm: Data management system

Eurotherm, a unit of Invensys plc, has announced the release of a new Advanced Screen Builder feature in the 5000 Series Data Management System. This feature enables 24 custom user screens to be created and viewed at the instrument’s touch screen.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Controls solution helps OEM grow its business

Decreased design time enables this machinery builder to expand product line by 300% with just a 10% increase in personnel.

January 31, 2005

Cartoning

Schering-Plough hits quality goal with Nutec/Wolke system

The Nutec/Wolke thermal inkjet system, utilizing HP technology, adds operational simplicity to lines. Setup is 21CFR11 “friendly”.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Oriental Motor USA: Motorized cylinders

Oriental Motor USA introduces the new EZ Limo series of linear motion products. It combines advanced step-motor functionality and sophisticated motion-control features into easy-to-use linear motion products.

December 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Grove Gear: Gear drive products

Able to withstand the harshest conditions, the newest stainless steel industrial worm gears from Grove Gear are sizes 218 and 220. These gear drives offer good corrosion protection because of their stainless steel housing, cover, and external hardware.

December 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Screwless terminal blocks

Automation Direct has added a line of screwless terminal blocks to its product offering. The line features a range of models, including feed-through, double-level, 1-to-2 connection, 2-to-2 connection, knife blade disconnect, and screwless ground terminal blocks.

December 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

'Innovation is indispensable'

Securing the role of low-cost provider can fuel growth for a while, but manufacturers today are better off relying on innovation as their path to sustained growth.

December 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

UF project meshes bar code and RFID technology

Research at the University of Florida on a productivity-tracking system for manual case packing is receiving an RFID-enabled boost using a multifunctional device.

December 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID one-on-one with Kevin Ashton Part 1

RFID Antenna exclusive: RFID authority Kevin Ashton, co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Auto-ID Center and now vice president of marketing with RFID reader vendor ThingMagic, provides insights and observations in this exclusive interview conducted in December. Part 2 concludes next month.

December 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SATO America, Inc. Unveils New Class of Powerful and Intelligent Barcode Printers

Fast, intelligent Web-enabled GTe Series sets the standard for industrial barcode printers

December 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Packagers to benefit from ISA--OMAC merger

ELAU, with ties to ISA and OMAC, already sees a convergence in the Make2Pack initiative, integrating best of breed automation solutions across the supply chain.

December 31, 2004

Controls & machine components

How to build more saleable machinery

A January 10 visit to Westpack, sponsored by Canon Communications, included a stop at the booth of Omron, a provider of manufacturing automation and control solutions. In a conversation about packaging machinery OEMs and the machine characteristics that add value in today’s manufacturing environment, the Omron brain trust offered these suggestions:

December 31, 2004