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Controls & Machine Components

OPC Foundation names executive director

The OPC Foundation, an organization whose goal is to be the most important global developer of open connectivity technology, has named Thomas Burke the OPC Foundation’s first full-time executive director.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

SERCOS improves interoperability with Pack Profile

The SERCOS organizations, one in North America and one in Europe, have announced the development of a Pack Profile in response to a request by the OMAC Packaging Workgroup.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC/WBF update

Ongoing efforts to harmonize the standards being developed by the OMAC Packaging Workgroup and the World Batch Forum took a significant step forward at an August 17-18 meeting at Pfizer’s Peapack, NJ, facility.

July 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

New case packing technology offers extreme flexibility

A+F Automation’s Case Packers, featuring their new TwinLine robotic pick & place technology, offer high speed case packing of multiple products and pack patterns through design innovations that include materials and PacDrive automation from ELAU.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Danaher Motion: High-performance servo drives

Danaher Motion introduces Kollmorgen S300 Series servo drives with built-in power supply. Compact in size, these drives are suitable for restricted-space applications that require high-performance servo control.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Compact AC motor controller

Oriental Motor USA introduces the new ES01 (110/115 volts) and ES02 (200/230 volts) series of compact AC motor speed controllers. Offer smooth start and smooth, instantaneous stop operations over a range of speeds.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Software for PFCs, PCs

Wago has debuted its 759-333 WAGO-IO-PRO CAA software for Wago Programmable Fieldbus Controllers and 758 Series Industrial PCs. It offers visual elements, complete offline simulation, and editors for programming in 6 languages including ladder diagram and structured text.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Brushless servo motor line

Baldor Electric has expanded its BSM brushless servo motor line to include encoders. Baldor BSM servo motors typically use resolvers as the prime feedback device.

July 31, 2004

Cartoning

Italian OEMs come on strong

Aggressive PACK EXPO 2004 presence shows why imports of packaging machinery from Italy to the U.S. were up 11.6% in 2003.

July 31, 2004

Flexible packaging

Cognex: powerful inspection tools for flexible packaging

Cognex machine vision systems locate distorted patterns that are difficult to recognize.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Plug connector housing

Bayonet locking is now available with Phoenix Contact’s Heavycon-Advance rectangular plug connector housing. Heavycon-Advance is suitable for applications where the connector requires plugging and unplugging.

June 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Safety relay

Schneider Electric’s new Telemecanique® Preventa™ XPS-MC is a multi-functional, configurable safety relay that complies with global machine safety standards.

June 30, 2004