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Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Automation Technology: Automation training

Training products for fluid power professionals from Bosch Automation Technology (Racine, WI) comprise hardware and textbooks along with an interactive multimedia system of 7 CD-ROMs.

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Controls & Machine Components

Data collection

Entek Enwatch™ from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) is an Ethernet-based online data collection system for companies seeking to enhance packaging productivity.

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Controls & Machine Components

Automation Intelligence: AC servo systems

Available from Automation Intelligence (Duluth, GA), PE Series AC servo drives with SERCOS are now available for use with Sanyo Denki AC servo motors and AML® multi-axis motion controllers.

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Secondary Packaging

Markem-Imaje: Networking software

Markem (Keene, NH) has introduced CimControl and Composer V5.2, enhanced versions of its Composer label design and CimControl machine networking software packages.

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Conveying & accumulation

Whetting Whetstone's appetite for PC controls

A 350 piece/min wrapping machine at Whetstone Candy relies on PC-based controls and a single software program to control logic, motion and HMI functions.

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Cartoning

A vision for low-cost inspection (sidebar)

A detailed look

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Cartoning

A vision for low-cost inspection

Access Business Group, the manufacturing arm for Amway, upgrades cosmetics packaging with new low-cost vision sensors that confirm literature insertion and label presence.

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Controls & Machine Components

OMAC reports progress at Pack Expo

More than 100 people attended the most recent OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) meeting in Chicago during Pack Expo Intl. 2000. The meeting’s purpose: to report progress since the group’s first official meeting in March 2000, also in Chicago.

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Secondary Packaging

Tri-extrusion heightens Haremar's capability

A faster line yielding more consistent films lifts Haremar Plastics into three-layer capability, exemplified by a clear overwrap for McDonald’s buns.Highlights include comprehensive central control and remote monitoring and servicing.

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Conveying & accumulation

Paired vf/f/s equipment 'brews' foodservice packs

By adding two vf/f/s machines, Mother Parker’s Tea & Coffee meets growing sales demand for small bags of ground coffee sold primarily to restaurants and hotels.

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Controls & Machine Components

Nordson Corporation: Curing device

Nordson’s (Amherst, OH) UV-Mac ultraviolet curing device has a special coating that prevents infrared-wave reflection, which generates heat and makes precise curing difficult, according to the company.

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Kiwi Coders Corp.: Ink guide

Kiwi Coders (Wheeling, IL) has developed a 1-page Specialty Ink Application Guide that contains a chart including surface characteristics, substrates, ink bases and drying times.

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