Controls & Machine Components

Machine guarding system

Banner Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) has developed a new electronic machine guarding system with a compact, low-cost, DIN-rail mountable control box. It uses an optoelectronic emitter, receiver and a 24v DC control box to generate a "screen" of infrared light beams between a hazardous machine and personnel.

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Controls & Machine Components

Cable carriers

E-Z Chain cable carriers from igus (E. Providence, RI) are designed with a split crossbar along the inner or outer radius for quick installation or removal of cables and hoses, without any tools.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pinch valve

Flow Control pinch valves from Flow-Rite Controls (Grand Rapids, MI) combine precise flow control characteristics of needle valves with low-cost, easy-to-use features of pinch valves.

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Controls & Machine Components

Fast tooling changeover

A new brochure from Jergens (Cleveland, OH) features products to speed tooling changeovers and to maximize the number of parts held on a fixture. It includes the Ball Lock(TM) Mounting System, which permits accurate locating and locking of fixture plates to subplates in less than a minute.

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Controls & Machine Components

Drive motors with tachometer

For use in applications where precise speed regulation is required, Baldor Electric (Ft. Smith, AR) offers SCR-rated Permanent Magnet DC Motors with precision integral DC tachometers.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pallet products video

Laminations (Neenah, WI) has updated its corporate video, "Your Competitive Edge," to demonstrate some of its newer products, PF PalletTop(TM) and FlexBoard(TM).

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Controls & Machine Components

Fieldbus interface

The Profibus process fieldbus interface card from Hardy Instruments (San Diego, CA) is designed for the company's HI 2160RC loss-in-weight rate controller.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printer/applicator

The Bakery Printer & Applicator from EPI Labelers (New Freedom, PA) was specifically designed to place labels and date codes on packaged bread, rolls, candy and other bakery items.

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Conveying & accumulation

Pallet load labeling

Kolinahr Systems' (Louisville, KY) SA-2000 is an automatic print/apply pallet load labeling system. When integrated with a product load accumulation conveyor, it can apply labels to one or two sides of individual finished product loads.

January 31, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printer/applicator

The Bakery Printer & Applicator from EPI Labelers (New Freedom, PA) was specifically designed to place labels and date codes on packaged bread, rolls, candy and other bakery items.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Mid-size PLC

The C200H Alpha is a new mid-size PLC from Omron Electronics (Schaumburg, IL) that integrates enhanced communications and connectivity options with I/O versatility and speeds to produce a versatile and powerful programmable controller.

January 31, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Case erector

The Pro Forma 230 is a new case erector from A-B-C Packaging Machine (Tarpon Springs, FL) designed to be very forgiving to variations in corrugated cases.

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Controls & Machine Components

Combiner

Gebo (Laval, Quebec, Canada) has developed a patent-pending double-lane-pressureless combiner for bottles or cans. It constantly adjusts output lanes to accommodate variation of product flow.

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