Conveying & accumulation

A line that's loaded with smarts

Latrobe Brewing Co.’s new line for 12-oz glass bottles of Rolling Rock beer is a textbook illustration of SCADA in action. Analysis of data is equally impressive.

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Controls implemented Nature's Way (sidebar)

Line overview

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Controls implemented Nature's Way

On a line filling 1- and 2.5-gal containers, a networked modem has already saved more than $10ꯠ by allowing remote troubleshooting by vendors. The network includes seven HMIs and nine PLCs.

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Controls & Machine Components

Networking survey validates OMAC's mission

After we published our packaging line networking survey of machinery suppliers (see PW, Oct. 2001 or packworld.com/ go/oemnetsurvey), we received the following letter from John Kowal of marketing services firm Grant Jacoby.

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Wake up and smell the standards! (sidebar)

OMAC’s accomplishments

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Wake up and smell the standards!

Attention packaging machine buyers. Take this quick quiz: Are you fed up with trying to maintain increasingly computerized packaging equipment, networks, and plants?

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: AC motors brochure

Rockwell Automation (Greenville, SC) has published a brochure describing Reliance® variable speed AC motors. Brochure features 1/3 to 2귔 hp inverter-duty motors.

October 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Labeler proves 'berry, berry' good for Fabri-Kal

A new clamshell labeling system increases speed while reducing labor costs and downtime at the Greenville, SC, plant of thermoformer Fabri-Kal.

October 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Brushless motion system literature

Oriental Motor (Torrance, CA) has published a catalog describing the BX Series of compact, DC brushless speed-control systems that provide a 100:1 speed range from 30 to 3ꯠ rpm.

September 30, 2001

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Baldor Electric Company: Motors and drives catalog

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) has released Version 7.0 of its interactive electronic catalog on CD-ROM. Users are able to access instantly a wide variety of technical information on more than 6귔 different Baldor motors and drives.

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC posts packaging guidelines

The OMAC Motion for Packaging working group carried out its scheduled meeting at Pack Expo Las Vegas on September 11, with more than 70 people attending.

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Flexo Rotary printer

The Flexpress 16 S/10 from Fischer and Krecke (Bielefeld, Germany) steplessly prints all materials in any print repeat between 320 and 1020 mm (12.61 and 40.19”) and in print widths of 1050 to 1650 mm (41.47 to 65.01”).

September 30, 2001

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Schneider Electric: Multi-use servo drive

The “all-in-one” Lexium™ servo drive from Schneider (North Andover, MA) can be used as a smart analog amplifier, a stepper translator, a SERCOS servo drive, or a stand-alone motion controller.

September 30, 2001