Controls & machine components

OMAC meeting: more than motion control

End users and machine builders alike are beginning to see OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) as a way to standardize on several packaging machine control technologies beyond just motion.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

VA hospital tests 'talking' label

Visually impaired patients at a veterans hospital are participating in a pilot program involving a radio-frequency identification labeling system that can read aloud prescription information and instructions for a medicine.

December 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Barco: Prepress software

Barco (Vandalia, OH) has created a stand-alone productive packaging prepress software that is built for speed. Has standard hardware, standard software formats and no price premium.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Ormec: Drive network brochure

A 6-page color brochure provides a technical overview of Ormec’s (Rochester, NY) new ServoWire™ Drive Network. Describes the network’s operation, installation, technology and flexibility.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Schubert Packaging Systems LLC: Systems brochure

Schubert (Addison, TX) has released a 20-page color brochure detailing its company services and products. Includes color photos and a list of worldwide contact locations.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

: Upgrading program

Package Machinery Co. (West Springfield, MA) now offers its customers the option of sending in their old machinery for remanufacturing and upgrading.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Crown Roll Leaf, Inc: Hot-stamp foil guide

Crown Roll Leaf (Paterson, NJ) has published “Foil Guide, 2nd Edition,” a reference tool about hot-stamping foils. Written for hot stampers, printers, packaging and graphic designers, and brand managers.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: Remote I/O feature

Electro Cam’s (Roscoe, IL) PL-1746 PLµS™ plug-in module now features remote I/O capabilities, a high-speed onboard microprocessor, mappable I/O registers, multiple program memory, and the ability to turn 16 or 32 outputs on and off at speeds of 500 microsec.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Testing Machines Inc: Micrometer

TMI’s (Islandia, NY) Lab Master® SSM Stress-Strain Micrometer is said to provide precise, repeatable measurements on materials that were previously difficult or impossible to test.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Quick-connection system

Quickon, from Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA), is a quick-connection system designed for applications in which round cables with a small number of wires must be connected efficiently and quickly.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Beckhoff Automation: Open machine control white paper

Against a backdrop in which open machine control technology is becoming more prevalent in packaging, Beckhoff Automation (Minneapolis, MN) is presented in a white paper from research firm ARC Advisory Group, which has its Web site at www.arcweb.com.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Litton Poly-Scientific: Electronic components

Litton Poly-Scientific (Blacksburg, VA) supplies motors and drives, actuators, fiber- optic links and switches. It claims to be one of the largest builders of specialty motors in the world, including the Silencer® line of brushless motors.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Flow chart programming tool

Siemens Energy & Automation’s Industrial Software Business Unit (Alpharetta, GA) has introduced S7-Charts, a new tool that allows users to design, develop and program flow charts for Simatic S7-300 and S7-400 PLCs and WinAC PC-based control platforms.

November 30, 2000