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Secondary Packaging

Columbia/Okura: Training facility

Columbia/Okura (Vancouver, WA) has built a state-of-the-art facility designated specifically for testing, training, and palletizing demonstrations.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

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The Electric Drives and Controls Div. of Bosch Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) now supports the PackML state model via a software module. Developed in close cooperation with the OMAC for Packaging Workgroup, this software module is designed to reduce commissioning time and present a single interface to operators of various packaging machinery.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Saint-Gobain: Rotary seals catalog

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (Wayne, NJ) completed a comprehensive catalog that describes the complete line of OmniLip™ PTFE-based rotary shaft seals.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Web Plus: Keeping engineers in the loop

Designed for engineers who need up-to-date specifications and technical information on electric motors, drives, generators, motion-control products, and gear products, the ProSpec Web site from Baldor (www.baldorprospec.com) provides information to help educate and develop relationships with specifying and consulting engineers.

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Companies

Morrison Timing Screw (Glenwood, IL) modernized its 15-year-old logo.

April 30, 2003

Flexible packaging

Pouch maker makes progress with PLS

New PLS plug-in module offers easier programming, less wiring, and less hardware for hf/f/s manufacturer.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC Plug-and-Pack Workgroup teams with ISA Food & Pharma Division at Process Control Conference

For the first time, the Instrument Society of America will host an OMAC Plug-and-Pack Workgroup conference track at this year’s ISA Process Control Conference in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, June 5-6, 2003.

April 30, 2003

Controls & machine components

Machine vision with color recognition

The new CV-751 machine vision system from Keyence (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) is equipped with shade scale technology to provide users with color recognition and detection approaching that of the human eye, company says.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: AC drive with vector control helpers

The Allen-Bradley® PowerFlex™ 700 AC drive with vector control helpers from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) helps users meet the tight torque and speed regulation requirements of some of industrial automation’s most challenging motor control applications, company says.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Hytrol Conveyor Company, Inc : Controls package

Hytrol (Jonesboro, AR) introduces ProSort Logix controls package that is designed to control all of Hytrol’s 100 and 200 Series ProSort sliding shoe sorters and the new ProSort SC Power Pivot Sorter.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Automated Production Systems, Corp.: Control systems

Automated Production Systems (New Freedom, PA) has the in-house capability to provide control systems such as fully integrated data highway and line management reporting systems.

March 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Gen3 performance moves downstream

Generation3 performance is no longer the sole domain of high end packaging machinery.

March 31, 2003