Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech: Ball-screw stage with linear encoder

A compact, high-performance linear positioning stage, Aerotech’s MPS75SLE features exceptionally smooth travel combined with outstanding accuracy, repeatability and positioning resolution capability to 25 nm.

June 9, 2014

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Vacuum tooling reduces changeover time

The system was so successful at boosting speed on an end-of-line packaging solution for bread products that the OEM applied for and received a patent.

June 2, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

WAGO: 24V DC power supplies

EPSITRON® ECO power supplies are the industry’s first economically priced 24V DC power supplies with all three Ex approvals (UL Class 1, Div.2, ATEX and IECEx).

May 29, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

ABB Robotics: Robotic picking-and packaging software

The new software improves the performance of robotic picking lines by identifying potential risks and optimizing cell designs with accurate 3D simulations.

May 27, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

WAGO: Module

The 750-439 NAMUR Ex i Module provides a flexible and effective solution for intrinsically safe digital applications.

May 22, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Adherence pack 2.0 now reaching Walmart stores

As baby boomers continue to age and adherence packaging becomes more important than ever, one clever company built a 134-axis servo-driven system to crank out lots and lots of blister-style adherence packs.

May 21, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Portescap: Brush DC motors

Designed to excel in uneven loading environments.

May 21, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Manufacturing performance software brings big gains

What happens when a fifth-generation family-owned business goes shopping for real-time manufacturing performance software?

May 20, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric: New line of electric motors

Baldor Electric Company announces a new line of electric motors – Super-E motors with Baldor Shaft Grounding Brush.

May 20, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Pepperl+Fuchs: Isolated device coupler

FieldBarrier R4D0-FB-IA is a diagnostic-enabled isolated device coupler for FOUNDATION Fieldbus H1 and PROFIBUS PA instruments.

May 19, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Next-gen cartoning at interpack

There’s no place like interpack to see the latest in packaging machinery controls and automation. Here are just two examples of what the world’s largest packaging show had on display in the cartoning sector.

May 19, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Clippard: High-flow bidirectional electronic valves

Designed using a unique, patented valving principle, Clippard’s DV Series Minimatic electronic valves are compact, precision-built 2-way control valves that provide flows to 100 l/min.

May 16, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Networkable integrated motor systems

Integrated motor-drive-controller-encoder systems are now networkable with PROFINET IO for industrial automation applications.

May 16, 2014