Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Scientific: Brushless servo motors

Sixteen models of the PMA series of brushless servo motors from Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL) offer a voltage range from 250 to 480V ac, torque range from ?

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Controls & Machine Components

Checkweighers

Alpha’s (Exton, PA) HP Series of checkweighers is recommended for pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food packaging applications. The various models offer weighing capacity of 1 kg to 150 kg and speeds from 150 to 400 containers/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Volumetric filler

Spee-Dee (Sturtevant, WI) has upgraded its Spee-Dee-Matic volumetric cup filler to include a 10’ conveyor with delay/dwell settings for each filling station.

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Controls & Machine Components

Heidenhain Corporation: Heidenhain Corporation: Rotary encoder catalog

A 54-page catalog from Heidenhain (Schaumburg, IL) includes detailed introductory, specifications and accessories sections for rotary encoders. Features photos, charts and diagrams to make encoder selection as easy as possible.

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Controls & Machine Components

Nyden Corporation: Single-axis stepper control

Single-axis board-level PLG200 stepping motor controller from Nyden Corp. (San Jose, CA), interfaces with all standard 2- and 5-phase stepping motor drives and motors.

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Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: PCI motion controller

The NextMove-PCI motion controller from Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) is a compact card that fits into a PC and provides 8 to 12 axes of motor control and extensive I/O, as well as supporting CAN communications.

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Conveying & accumulation

MagneTek: AC drive

MagneTek’s (New Berlin, WI) GPD 305 is a low-cost adjustablefrequency AC drive in a small package. It is ideal for equipment control applications including fans, pumps, conveyors, mixers and material handling installations.

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Secondary Packaging

Star Linear Systems, a Div. of Mannesmann Rexroth: Star Linear Systems, a Div. of Mannesmann Rexroth: Linear motion

Star Linear Systems (Charlotte, NC) has introduced Mini Compact Slides and Tychoway® Miniature Ball Rails®. Both provide linear motion for packaging machines such as fillers, case packers, palletizers and wrappers.

May 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Horner APG: Conveyor controllers

Designed for use with power roller technology, Horner APG’s (Indianapolis, IN) family of distributed controllers provides conveyor control for about half the cost of a central control system.

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Controls & machine components

Air Logic Power Systems, Inc: Container inspection

Air Logic Power Systems, Inc., (Milwaukee, WI), announces its high-speed Model 7385 16-, 24- and 30-station rotary inspection systems fitted with an expanded 3-camera-based vision system.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Ilapak, Inc: Vf/f/s system

Ilapak’s (Newtown, PA) Vegatronic® 1000 vf/f/s system operates at speeds to 99 bags/min, making it suitable for use in medium-sized and small plants.

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

Flex America Inc: Flex America Inc: Labeler for vf/f/s machines

Designed for integration with Ishida Apex vf/f/s equipment, the Flex-Pac labeler from EPI (New Freedom, PA) applies p-s labels—including coupon, multi-ply and reclosable styles—to fronts or backs of packages.

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Controls & Machine Components

Nordson Corporation: Hot melt handguns

Automatic hot melt adhesive dispensing handguns in Nordson’s (Duluth, GA) Select Series™ offer a choice of 1-, 2- or 4-module standard and 2- or 4-module low-profile configurations with spring- or air-closing technology.

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