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

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Controls & Machine Components

Batching Systems: Equipment brochure

Batching Systems' (Owings, MD) brochure is a pocket folder with color-coded inserts on all its products. Special inserts designed for quick reading highlight the benefits of the machinery.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

E-mailed production data

Rockwell Software's (Milwaukee, WI) RSMailman software automatically sends real-time production data extracted from PLCs on the packaging floor anywhere in the company using simple electronic mail messages.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Automation catalog

More than 700 pages of information on pneumatic, hydraulic and electromechanical actuators is available in PHD's (Fort Wayne, IN) Catalog 98. Complete engineering data is featured for powered slides, grippers, cylinders, rotary actuators, multi-motion actuators and switches.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Omron Electronics LLC: Programming software

Omron's (Schaumburg, IL) new SYSMAC-CPT PLC programming and documentation software aims to save programmers time spent learning several different programming packages.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Scientific: Stepper motors

Pacific Scientific's Motor Products Div.'s (Rockford, IL) line of high-torque stepper motors is detailed in a new catalog. Features Powermax II® and Powerpac(TM) hybrid steppers, standard and special purpose hybrids, Powersync(TM) AC synchronous motors and planetary gearheads.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Wrapping system

A new wrapping system from Klckner Hansel Tevopharm (Sarasota, FL) is equipped with a device that heat-seals a tearstrip along the length of the package and makes a small cut in the fin seal for easy user opening.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Ink coder

Ranger Industries (Tinton Falls, NJ) has introduced the Model 110 All Cast Reciprocating Ink Code Dater. It prints data horizontally or vertically in a 1" x 1" or 2" x 2" area at speeds to 90 cycles/min, in black, blue, red, green or UV.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: Speed compensation fundamentals

A packaging-oriented tutorial titled "Fundamentals of Speed Compensation" is available from Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL). Identifies how programmable limit switches can be used to allow devices with fixed response times, such as glue guns, to perform with high accuracy over a wide range of machine speeds.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Steeplechase Software Inc: PC-based control

Books, tutorials and white papers designed to help packagers learn more about controls. A Practical Guide to PC-Based Control & Flow-Chart Programming is a new handbook available from Steeplechase Software (Ann Arbor, MI).

May 31, 1998

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Triangle Package Machinery Co.: Vertical form/fill/seal system

Triangle Package Machinery's (Chicago, IL) Advantage CM vertical f/f/s system is designed for minimal maintenance. Its cross-seal jaw drive uses torsional couplings instead of sliding shafts, bushings, cams, springs and other linkage.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

'No-glug' pouring

Twin City Bottle (Minneapolis, MN) introduces its patented Kleenpour "no glug" pouring system for 2.5-gal containers. The extrusion/blown HDPE system is said to eliminate the mess and costly spillage caused by glugging that occurs during pouring.

May 31, 1998

Secondary Packaging

Magnetic palletizing heads

Walker Magnetics (Worcester, MA) offers a line of magnetic palletizing/depalletizing heads that operate with hydraulics or pneumatics without external moving parts.

May 31, 1998