Controls & Machine Components

Brecoflex Co., L.L.C.: PU timing belts

Brecoflex's (Eatontown, NJ) PU timing belts have steel-cord tension members that maintain permanent pitch and positional accuracy in positioning, dividing, combining, transporting, stepping and sychronous conveying.

May 31, 1998

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Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: CD-ROM catalog

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) now offers Version 4.0 of its Electronic Catalog on CD-ROM. An interactive search function allows users to instantly access a wide variety of technical information on more than 4ꯠ different Baldor motors and drives.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Filler Specialties Inc: Pressure-release valves

External-mount pressure-release valves are now available for Filler Specialties' (Zeeland, MI) Rotary Gravity Filling Systems. The new Model hEMV Fastfill valves eliminate the need to enter the filling bowl on a regular basis.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Moen Industries: Bliss former

Moen Industries (Santa Fe Springs, CA) offers the Model PF106-TPB bliss former for bag-in-box shipping containers. It positively glues a bliss liner to a bliss body wrap, resulting in a shipping case with a double-laminated bottom and a structure with good top-to-bottom strength and rigidity.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Octagon Systems: Octagon Systems: Octagon Systems: PC control starter kit

A $1귏 PC-based control starter kit includes Octagon Systems' (Westminster, CO) MicroPC embedded PC hardware, Intellution's (Norwood, MA) FIX Paradym-31 SoftLogic control software, and Opto 22's (Temecula, CA) Snap I/O digital and analog modules.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Open control systems

Developing and implementing PC-based, open control systems is the subject of a white paper from Controlware (Cleveland, OH). Defines what is meant by open control, identifies open control benefits and discusses items that should be considered when evaluating open control products.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Meech USA Static Eliminators: Ionized air gun

Meech Static Eliminators (Akron, OH) has developed a hand-held ionized air gun that helps remove dust and particulate matter from plastic components.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Nolu Plastics Inc: Adjusting rods

Nolu Plastics' (Aston, PA) new stainless-steel adjusting rods feature a permanently etched sizing scale along the front face of the body. The pre-etched scale permits quick changeovers and fits snugly onto a variety of guiderails with a clamp or bolt head.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Programming language

MINT is a new motion-control language from Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR). Can be used to program Baldor's entire line of motion-control products, from single to 256 axes of motion.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Sentrol Industrial: Safety interlock switches

Sentrol Industrial (Tualatin, OR) has introduced its new line of mechanical safety interlock switches. The switches detect the opening of guards-doors, gates and removable covers-that restrict access to dangerous parts of a machine.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Rexam Metallising: Metallized papers

Rexam Metallising (Greenfield, IN) introduces a design that gives standard metallized paper a light-refractive, dimensional appearance, much like holographics.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Advanced Micro Controls Inc: Packaging PLS

Easypack from Advanced Micro Controls Inc. (Terryville, CT) is said to be a plug-and-play limit switch solution for packaging machine applications. Includes Series 8500 programmable limit switch modules and pre-configured ladder logic for Allen-Bradley's SLC 500 PLCs.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Cutler-Hammer: Cutler-Hammer: LCD touchscreen display

Cutler-Hammer's (Westerville, OH) D700 Series Open Automation Computers now include the new D710 15X, a 15" active-matrix LCD color touchscreen display.

May 31, 1998