Controls & Machine Components

Yaskawa: Gear motors

Yaskawa America, Inc. has released a full line of gear motors based on its Sigma-7 servo motors, bringing precise servo motion to a wider variety of automation applications than ever before, especially to uses which require high torque at low output speeds.

May 19, 2017

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Serac debuts new logo

Serac’s rebranding efforts include a new logo and four new company goals.

May 18, 2017

Conveying & accumulation

Dynamic Packaging Solutions LLC to represent Dynamic Conveyor Corporation in the food and pharmaceutical industries

Dynamic Conveyor introduces new sales agency to support sales to the food processing, packaging, and pharmaceutical industries.

May 18, 2017

Material handling

How an increasingly patient-centric approach is impacting cold chain

The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.

May 17, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

PHD, Inc. celebrates 60 years of business

PHD currently employs more than 300 people in two Indiana facilities and manufactures a range of automation products.

May 17, 2017

Cartoning

Bayer’s ‘Shamrock’ package cures design headaches

Cloverleaf-shaped strip-pack, customized machinery provide peel-open consumer convenience and market differentiation for fast-acting Bayer aspirin.

May 16, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Cognex: Laser profiler

Cognex has introduced the In-Sight laser profiler, an easy-to-use measurement system that verifies part dimensions; the profiler is an intuitive and highly reliable tool for obtaining height, gap, position, and angle measurements and detecting defects on the factory floor.

May 16, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Virtually endless case-packing options at Barilla

Barilla America expands its Ames, IA, plant to include gluten-free pasta-making, equipping the area with secondary packaging machinery that can meet a wide range of retail customer requirements.

May 14, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Continuous duty servo motor

With the new line of Allen Bradley Kinetix VPC servo motors from Rockwell Automation, manufacturers can run machines at higher speeds and higher torque, significantly improving machine throughput.

May 12, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Report indicates strong growth in continuous manufacturing

The increasing adoption of continuous technologies by pharmaceutical manufacturing companies and CMOs seeks to address the challenges related to product quality, drug supply and operational costs.

May 11, 2017

Material handling

Track-and-trace technologies lead the security packaging market

Diverse ongoing threats, new regulatory requirements for life critical products, and technical evolution will fuel market growth for anti-counterfeiting packaging technologies.

May 10, 2017

Material handling

Global biopharmaceutical logistics market expanding

New study shows leading market companies are providing user-friendly shipping, e-commerce, logistics management and visibility tools.

May 9, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: AC current transformers

AutomationDirect’s AcuAmp line of power products now includes the CTF series 5A secondary current transformers; designed for applications such as ammeters, watt-meters, panel meters, instrumentation, and energy management systems, these current transformers offer a compact, cost-effective means of measuring primary current.

May 9, 2017