Controls & Machine Components

SICK, Inc: Machine safety handbook

A new handbook on machine safety is available from SICK Optic-Electronic (Bloomington, MN). The free 51-page handbook provides a backgrounder on European machine safety regulations.

May 31, 1999

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Controls & Machine Components

Electro-Craft: Drives with DeviceNet

Electro-Craft (Eden Prairie, MN) offers a DeviceNet option on its BRU Series Advantage line of universal drives and IQ Series positioning drives. DeviceNet is an inexpensive industrial-grade local area network that permits the drives to be connected along with sensors, motor starters and other devices to operator interface panels, PLCs and PCs.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motor CD-ROM catalog

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) has released Version 5.0 of its interactive Electronic Catalog on CD-ROM. Users can instantly access a wide variety of technical information on more than 5ꯠ different Baldor motors and drives.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

BFGoodrich Performance Materials: Static control polymers

A new 6-pg brochure from BFGoodrich Static Control Polymers (Twinsburg, OH) details its static control polymer capabilities and its commitment to the development and advancement of ESD technologies.

May 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

PC control grows up

Contract packager Beverage Capital becomes one of the first users of a 78-valve liquid filler controlled by a single PC. Benefits include ease of use, faster troubleshooting.

May 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Controls system simplifies automatic case sortation

In the central packaging area of the two-year-old snack plant built by Pretzels, Inc. in Bluffton, In, corrugated cases of bagged snacks are conveyed from packaging to palletizing on a single powered roller conveyor.

May 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

FANUC Robotics: Palletizing system

FANUC's (Rochester Hills, MI) PalletCell 100/200 Series of palletizers accepts cases from two infeed conveyors and discharges onto two full-pallet discharge conveyors simultaneously.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Divelbiss Corp.: IEC 1131-3 training

Divelbiss (Fredericktown, OH) now offers training courses for the IEC 1131-3 programming standard. Certified by the PLCopen organization that promulgates the standard, the three-day training program is conducted at the company's headquarters, although on-site training is also available.

May 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

PLS speeds changeover, boosts reliability for Lever

A programmable limit switch speeds changeover and extends capabilities of new hot melt applicator and rebuilt filler.

May 31, 1999

Filling/capping, dry

All-Fill Inc: Auger filler

All-Fill's (Exton, PA) Cerebus III Model B-400 auger filling machine dispenses powders, liquids or any dry product in amounts from 500 mg to 100 lb.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Leeson Electric: Leeson Electric: Basic Motor Training

A 79-page handbook on electric motors, AC and DC drives, gear reducers and gearmotors is available for free from Leeson Electric (Grafton, WI).

May 31, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Marprint, Inc: Label applicator

Applying preprinted labels to packages of any size, shape or fragility, the Paragon Express(TM) module from Marprint (White Bear Lake, MN) can be integrated into a line or can stand alone.

May 31, 1999

Controls & machine components

Machine vision white paper

A short white paper titled "The Object Location Algorithm, the Evolution of 'Search'" is available from Imaging Technology (Bedford, MA). Discusses how machine evolution has progressed since the introduction of Normalized Grayscale Correlation algorithm, used by many vision companies.

May 31, 1999