Controls & Machine Components

Side flow air conveyance system

Whisper Side Flow[tm] air conveyance system for PET and other plastic containers accommodates various container sizes, heights, and neck finishes.

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SICK, Inc: Flexible scanner

The Omni-2110 from Sick is an individually configurable, omni-directional scanning system from Sick (Minneapolis, MN) suitable for the most demanding sortation, item-tracking, and package-handling environments.

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lpha gear drives, Inc: AC servo actuator

The TPM AC servo actuator from alpha gear drives (Elk Grove Village, IL) is a servo/gearmotor package consisting of a brushless AC servomotor, a low-backlash, high-precision TP planetary gearhead; and an optional holding brake.

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Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Wash-down valves

Bosch Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) has introduced the CL03 Clean Line™ Series of wash-down valves. They utilize IP67/NEMA 6-rated technology in a hygienically designed package.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Christian Book Distributors: Packaging books for e-commerce orders

After orders are placed onto corrugated blanks, a scanner reads the bar code on the shipping manifest, placed on top.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Romaco: Rotary tablet counter for capsule filling and counting

The RTC 200 rotary tablet counter from Romaco provides positive container handling for tablet or capsule filling and counting.

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Servo auger filler/bagger

The Phaser Bagger from EaglePack (Oakland, CA) will be shown at the 2003 SCAA coffee exposition in Boston, held April 25-28.

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Conveying & accumulation

National Manufacturing Week: Notes from the field

Special Projects Editor Dave Newcorn spotted many interesting new technologies, including machine vision, at National Manufacturing Week in early March. Here are some of them.

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Interphex 2003: pharma shifts to Gen3 packaging

A technology shift is underway among pharmaceutical manufacturers and contract packagers.

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Leeson Electric: Stainless steel motors

Leeson Electric (Grafton, WI) now offers a full line of premium stainless steel motors that meet the demanding sanitation requirements of the food and chemical processing industries.

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IMI Norgren, Inc: Pneumatic rotary actuators

From Norgren (Littleton, CO), a new range of pneumatic rotary actuators for packaging applications offer a consistently smooth, accurate, cushioned movement.

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Compumotor: Small servo drives

Compumotor (Rohnert Park, CA) has launched a series of small, high-performance brushless servo drives. The new SLVD (small, low-voltage, digital) drives measure just 5.56”x3.39” with a depth of 5.49”, and the family includes models that can deliver shaft powers to 620W.

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Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Industrial PC

The CX1000 Automation Control from Beckhoff USA (Minneapolis, MN) is a modular, DIN rail-mounted industrial PC with power and economy. Combines Microsoft® embedded operating systems (Windows CE.NET and Windows XP), and Beckhoff’s TwinCAT®CE PLC and motion control software in a low-cost, rugged hardware platform suitable for use in a wide range of machine tool and industrial control applications, handling up to 6 axes with the PLC program.

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