Controls & Machine Components

Triangle Package Machinery Co.: Hot melt adhesive

Patent-pending QuickBrick(TM) from Reichhold Chemicals (Research Triangle Park, NC) is a 6"-long, 3.5"-wide, 1.75"-thick "ingot" of hot melt adhesive.

May 31, 1998

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Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor Systems, Inc: Modular conveyors

From Quickdraw Conveyor Systems (Burnsville, MN) comes conveyors designed for handling disk drive components and semiconductor wafers. The MR Series accumulating conveyors have independent verification of their cleanliness along with slip-driven rollers attached to aluminum support rails that produce smooth, quiet conveyor movement with minimal power requirements.

May 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Parvex, Inc: Brushless servomotors

New H Series servomotors from Parvex (Elmsford, NY) are brushless, permanent-magnet synchronous motors with resolver feedback driven by digital servo amplifiers.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Filling system

Performance Machine (Norcross, GA) has introduced the pneumatic P-1 filling system. It packs a variety of food products, including seafoods, salads, spreads, slurry products and snack foods, into molded or thermoformed containers at speeds to 75/min.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Orion Packaging Systems: Orion Packaging Systems: PC-based motion controller

Ormec's (Rochester, NY) new Orion® Model 30 PC-based motion controller is now available with a 233-MHz Pentium MMX microprocessor for up to five times more processing power than before.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electric Automation: Micro PLCs

New FX2N Supermicro(TM) PLC from Mitsubishi Electric Automation (Vernon Hills, IL) is half the size and is said to provide over six times the performance level of existing micro controllers.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Thomson Industries, Inc: Linear motion CD-ROM

A 340-page catalog of off-the-shelf linear motion components including motion controls is now available in CD-ROM format from Thomson Industries (Port Washington, NY).

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Networked valves

Parker Hannifin, Pneumatic Div.'s (Richland, MI) Serial Addressable Manifold (SAM) Generation 3.0 is a communications module that allows valves, sensors and other devices on a packaging machine to communicate on a device-level network.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Industrial PCs

New 9400 series industrial PCs from Xycom (Saline, MI) are low-cost, industrial-hardened PCs designed for PC-based control and human-machine interface applications.

May 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Top/bottom labeler

Joseph Manufacturing's (Overland Park, KS) top/bottom roll-on labeler applies p-s labels to tops and bottoms of containers at speeds to 120 labels/min.

May 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Future shock (sidebar)

Blue-sky packaging ideas

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control (sidebar)

Understanding high-speed motion control

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control

Standardizing on SERCOS for digital motion control in packaging equipment permits Hershey to reduce construction, installation, start-up and maintenance costs.

May 31, 1998