Controls & Machine Components

LPS Industries Inc: Barrier bag

LPS Industries (Moonachie, NJ) has manufactured a custom-made barrier bag for transporting goods. The flexible "tin can" bag consists of four basic layers that can be altered to the customer's specifications: polyester, two layers of PE, and an aluminum foil barrier layer.

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Controls & Machine Components

Shipping crate

From Homasote (W. Trenton, NJ), Dura Crate(TM) is a crate for product shipping and storage. It's made of Homasote board with a die-cut design and is held together with bands or screws for returnables, or with staples or nails for one-way shipments.

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Clayton Corp.: Control panel fabrication

Custom design, fabrication and installation of electrical and control panels for packaging lines is a new service offered by Barry-Wehmiller Co., Electrical Manufacturing Div.

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

EAS tags

A six-page brochure that illustrates and describes a family of Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) Integrated Loop Tags is now available from Avery Dennison (Philadelphia, PA).

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Aromat Corporation: Two-color touch panel

D30 Series graphic touch panel from Aromat (New Providence, NJ) consists of a NEMA 4-rated two-color backlit LCD that can display text and graphics. Stores up to 256 message screens, which can be color coded for faster operator recognition.

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Package shipping software

Acctronix (Lenexa, KS) has released a literature sheet on its Compass Complete Packaging System. A bulleted list provides the benefits of using this parcel shipping system, including point-and-click control and rate shopping of national carriers for the most cost-effective service.

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation: Indexing servo drives

Rockwell Automation/Electro-Craft (Eden Prairie, MN) has added indexing functionality to its BRU-Series Advantage Line family of digital servo drives.

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Simulation software

Systems Modeling (Sewickley, PA) has just released HiSpeed$im(TM), simulation software developed specifically for simulating high-speed packaging applications.

January 31, 1998

Controls & machine components

Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP): Computer/line integration

Using Computer Technology to Achieve Packaging Line Integration and Automation is a comprehensive, 235-page textbook available from the Institute of Packaging Professionals (Herndon, VA).

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

All-in-one HMI, PLC, I/O

Simatic C7-620 series of controllers from Siemens (Alpharetta, GA) combine a PLC, human-machine interface (HMI) and I/O components in a single, compact unit.

January 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

UV clamshell sealing

PartnerPak (Huntington Beach, CA) has introduced the Simpl-Seal® UV sealing system for double blister and clamshell packages. The system applies a proprietary adhesive, Simpl-Sealant, to one half of the package via a dispensing system.

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Compact motion controller

PowerMotion(TM) DSM300 motion control module from GE Fanuc (Charlottesville, VA) uses powerful dual processors for a three-fold increase in processing power over its predecessor at roughly half the price and with half the power consumption.

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Palletizing robot

Rodico (Upper Saddle River, NJ) now offers PEWO-form Pallet, a compact 4-axis robotic palletizer. Its modular construction allows different functions to be combined.

January 31, 1998