Secondary Packaging

Boxing out the competition

A switch to a new gearbox increases reliability and lowers cost for Goodman’s new case packer.

July 31, 2003

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THK America, Inc: THK America, Inc: Catalog directory

THK offers its new catalog directory of products, including motion guides, actuators, and other linear motion products. Information regarding caged ball linear motion guides; standard linear motion guides; ball screws, splines, and link balls; linear actuators; and other standard products is included.

June 30, 2003

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Beckhoff Automation: Mini industrial PC

Beckhoff has expanded its comprehensive Industrial PC family with the C6320 and C6330 mini format control cabinet PCs. The smallest measures 3.7”x7.7”x8.9”.

June 30, 2003

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Siemens Industry Inc: 4th-generation inverters

Siemens Energy & Automation (Alpharetta, GA) has released the 4th generation of its Micromaster inverters. This universal drive series for AC motors from 1/6 HP to 300 HP has a new user-friendly parameter structure that simplifies installation and start-up for the basic to complex speed control applications at a commensurate price, says the manufacturer.

June 30, 2003

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Liquid packaging breakthrough

First specialized filling, capping and labeling servo motor/drive enables unprecedented design flexibility for liquid packaging.

June 30, 2003

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Simco: Product catalog

Simco Industrial Static Control releases its 2003 full-color catalog, featuring a complete line of static control, web, and sheet cleaning and electrostatic charging products.

June 30, 2003

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Compumotor: Motion control guide

An expanded line of PC-based control products from recently acquired Acroloop is featured in Compumotor’s new 32-page product selection guide. Includes 5 versions of the ACR card; each based on a 32-bit floating-point DSP performing in advanced multi-axis trajectory generation.

June 30, 2003

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Danaher Motion: Danaher Motion: Motor feedback encoders

As a replacement for resolvers, Flex-Mount encoders from Danaher Controls are said to provide an easier, more affordable way to improve machine performance and productivity in stepper and servo motor applications.

June 30, 2003

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Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc: Brushless motor drives

Delta Tau Data Systems introduces the Geo Drive family of brushless motor drive amplifiers. The 1- or 2-axis 3-phase servo-drive amplifiers support a wide range of motor types, power ranges, and user interfaces.

June 30, 2003

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Associated Packaging Technologies: Tray brochure

Associated Packaging Technologies offers a brochure describing its custom or stock tray options. Full-color brochure includes information regarding the company’s ready-meal trays, institutional trays, bakery trays, fully prepared meat trays, frozen food trays, and case-ready meat trays.

June 30, 2003

Additives, coatings & inks

Smoothening torque transfer

Auger fillers are fast, flexible, and accurate thanks to the composite disc couplings used to transfer torque from servo motors to auger shafts.

June 30, 2003

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SICK, Inc: Safety interlocks

Sick has added more than 20 new safety interlocks to its product line to include safety position switches, safety locking devices, noncontact safety sensors, safety operating and emergency stop switches, and safety switches with separate actuators.

May 31, 2003

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Pilz International: Noncontact magnetic safety switches

Pilz offers noncontact magnetic safety switches on the input side in conjunction with BG-tested electronic evaluation devices, plus safe relay, semiconductor, and power outputs on the output side.

May 31, 2003