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Controls & Machine Components

Avery Dennison Retail Information Systems (Printer Div.): Tag and label software

A new tag and label software program for manufacturers and repackagers of medical and surgical equipment and supplies is now available from Avery Dennison Printer Systems (Philadelphia, PA).

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: I/O trends white paper

A white paper on trends in control system I/O is available from Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley (Milwaukee, WI). Provides a basic understanding of what I/O is and a brief summary of the evolution of control system I/O.

September 30, 1998

Flexible packaging

Aseptic PE/EVOH/PE bottles hold shelf-stable infant formula

Infant formula isn't a category where you normally find a lot of packaging innovation. But this summer has brought us two interesting packaging advances in the "mother's milk" replacement business.

September 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Linear conveyor

A linear, differential-motion conveyor, the Auto-Glide® is available from Smalley Mfg. (Knoxville, TN). Operates at rates to 40'/min. The conveyor's vibratory action occurs in a horizontal plane, via a gentle shuffling action.

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Parker Hannifin Corporation: Basics of pneumatic technology

A new 170-page textbook from Parker Hannifin's motion control training department serves as a basic training manual in industrial pneumatics, ranging from gas laws to pneumatic logic to circuitry.

September 30, 1998

Secondary Packaging

A new record for distributed control (sidebar)

How distributed control spreads the burden

September 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Bringing a glacier to the consumer

On Vancouver Island, a brand new PET bottling line fed by an in-line stretch blow-molding machine is packaging right from a glacier some of the purest water on the planet.

September 30, 1998

Palletizing/depalletizing

Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more

Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Robotics.

September 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

A new record for distributed control

Music distributor Valley Media cuts downtime by more than 50% on its newest labeling/sortation/collating line. A network of micro PLCs controls the line as well as gathers performance data to speed troubleshooting.

September 30, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Packagers struggle with staffing

Manufacturers in virtually every industry-including food, beverage, pharmaceutical and even electronics-report that it's getting harder and harder to find and keep good packaging people.

September 30, 1998

Flexibles

Career fairs: How some companies 'precruit'

Many companies look for packaging professionals at schools with packaging curricula, and some successful companies begin the process before students even graduate.

September 30, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

A new record for distributed control (sidebar)

Profibus network explained

September 30, 1998