Controls & Machine Components

Machine builders speak out on servos

Most machine builders are using servo motion control technology, but few are designing their machines from the ground up around the technology.

September 30, 2002

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Flexible packaging

Liquid pouch machine

ExactaPack LLC (Exton, PA), a division of the Johnson Industries Packaging Group, will display Model EP-18L vf/f/s pouch packaging machine at affiliate Southern Packaging Machinery’s booth #N-570 at Pack Expo 2002.

September 30, 2002

Secondary Packaging

High-speed case erector

SWF Companies (Reedley, CA) has redesigned the CE 151 high-speed, automatic case erector/bottom flap sealer. Reaching speeds up to 45 cases/min, the CE 151’s standard features include a Nordson hot melt system, easy load hopper, and multiple case size capabilities.

September 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Norstat,Inc: Operating panel

Norstat (Rockaway, NJ) introduces the WOP-IT Ethernet-driven Web operating panel that combines the World Wide Web with human machine interface and PLC technology.

August 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

CTC Parker Automation: PC-based I/O

CTC Parker Automation (Milford, OH) has added a new Ethernet buscoupler to its MachinePoint™ line of remote I/O. The module utilizes Modbus TCP/IP for data transmission at 10/100 Mbps between control and machine components.

August 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: AC drives

The new GS series of AC drives from AutomationDirect (Cumming, GA) includes the GS1 mini AC drive at 1/4 to 2 hp, 115 VAC/230 VAC input, 230 VAC output, and 3 to 10 KHz carrier frequency.

August 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

PackML and 'Plug and Pack' explained

If each packaging machine speaks an agreed-upon vocabulary that's specific to packaging, the following benefits are possible.

August 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Multivac Inc: Vacuum packaging brochure

Multivac (Kansas City, MO) offers a trifold brochure outlining the benefits and features of its new B500 Vacuum Chamber Conveyor Belt machine that the company says optimizes productivity for packagers of bulk products.

August 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Hoffman: Hoffman: Hoffman: Servo drive

The Ecodrive DKC 16 servo drive from Bosch Rexroth’s Electric Drives and Controls Div. (Hoffman Estates, IL) is well suited for packaging machine applications.

August 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Q&A: Using servos properly

Dave Lutz, senior packaging engineering specialist for General Mills, says machine builders should apply servos properly or shouldn’t bother applying them at all.

August 31, 2002

Flexible packaging

Companies

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (Houston, TX) relocated its worldwide headquarters from downtown Houston to 10001 Six Pines Drive, The Woodlands, TX.

August 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Money talks (sidebar)

Reviewed by OMAC

August 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

Money talks

OMAC-sanctioned financial comparison of third-generation servo-driven cartoner with older, all-mechanical version proves the “cheaper, better, faster” mantra.

August 31, 2002