Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Programming language

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) offers MINT, a new motion control programming language for use with Baldor's vector drive, servo and linear motion products.

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Towelette container

A compact towelette container from Continental Glass & Plastic (Chicago, IL) is now available. The blow-molded, HDPE container with injection-molded cap is suitable for jewelry cleaners, insect repellents and skin cleansers.

October 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Small machine is big business for coffee roaster

A compact form/fill/seal machine makes a packaging engineer out of an entrepreneur and launches a whole new business in the process.

October 31, 1998

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Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) has agreed to buy Anorad Corp. (Hauppauge, NY), a maker of linear motor-based positioning equipment, for an undisclosed price.

October 31, 1998

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VMIC: Single-board computer

VMIC (Huntsville, AL) introduces the model VMICPCI-7592, a new CompactPCI single-board computer with up to a 233-MHz Pentium® processor. Provides operating system support for VxWorks and Windows NT®.

September 30, 1998

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Steeplechase Software Inc: Web-aware PC-based diagnostics

Steeplechase Software's (Ann Arbor, MI) VLD Diagnostic Manager, integrated with the company's PC-based control software, displays graphical fault recovery and repair instructions as standard web pages on a built-in browser.

September 30, 1998

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Serac Inc: Filler control system

The Filler Control System can be retrofitted to Serac's (Carol Stream, IL) net-weigh machines to provide machine control functions and statistical process reports.

September 30, 1998

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Sekisui TA Industries, Inc: Box erector

Sekisui TA Industries (Garden Grove, CA) introduces the STA-F2000 Series automatic uniform erector/bottom taper. Simple to operate, the machine takes less than 5 min to change over.

September 30, 1998

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TriEnda Corp.: Storage system

The Big Pak® storage system from TriEnda Corp. (Portage, WI) is returnable, reusable and recyclable. Handles any medium- to heavy-duty loads. Suitable for moving work-in-progress and finished goods in a controlled-loop circuit, the system is said to minimize freight costs, stack higher and safer, reduce damage to payloads and free up warehouse space.

September 30, 1998

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Packaging Machines International: Multi-packer

Packaging Machines Intl. (Elk Grove Village, IL) introduces Model GRD-35, a dual-lane multi-packer. It shrink wraps groups of six PET bottles holding beverages in 8- or 16-oz serving sizes, at speeds to 200 bottles/min.

September 30, 1998

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Pacific Scientific: Compact stepper motors

Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL) has added a Size 17 frame Powerpac motor to its line of hybrid stepper motors. It offers a holding torque range from 21.2 to 68.9 oz-in.

September 30, 1998

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Packaging Partners: Packaging Partners: Secondary package sizer

The J&L package sizer from The Packaging Partners group (Houston, TX) makes it easy to size secondary shipping containers. Primary packages or products are placed and fitted inside four transparent panels and dimensions are directly read in the vertical and horizontal scales in English and Metric units.

September 30, 1998

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Enercon Industries Corp.: Coil design change

The updated Compak(TM) Jr. from Enercon (Menomonee Falls, WI) offers a newly designed hand-held sealing coil said to be ergonomically correct for the operator.

September 30, 1998