Robotics

A robotic forklift truck navigates the floor alone

Yale Material Handling, with their partnership with Balyo, finds a balance between custom software that trains its unmanned forklifts within defined paths and mechanical components that can be serviced by local dealers

November 22, 2016

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Controls & Machine Components

Parsec: Modular manufacturing management software

TrakSYS is a unified, 100% web-based platform with multiple, fully-integrated modules, which can be used as a full manufacturing execution system (MES), or deployed to solve one or more business challenges -- from performance and quality to e-records, maintenance, workflow, and more.

November 22, 2016

Flexible packaging

Ultrasonic sealing protects nut-butter pouches

Yumbutter selects ultrasonic sealing to protect the seal integrity of its on-the-go pouches.

November 19, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Integrated Cartoner with Coding and Verification for Efficient Serialization

The balcony-style Cariba C222 cartoner—with quick 15-minute changeover—connects to the MG2 ACE CT/400 coding and verification unit from MG America for precise indexing and transport of blister packs.

November 18, 2016

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Vertical Form/Fill/Seal Stick Pack Machine for Granules, Powders and Liquid Products

IMAR i6000 series from Key International accommodates a variety of stick pack widths, lengths and fill ranges. The machine offers four to 20 lanes to meet capacity needs and can also be integrated with a cartoner for a complete packaging line.

November 18, 2016

Coding/marking

Machine Vision Inspection and Automatic Identification

New product integrations of machine vision and smart cameras used for both inline and offline and barcode and data matrix readers/verification. Systems are configurable and are used by customers in validated industries, such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

November 18, 2016

Cartoning

Rebuilt Packaging Systems

Company takes older Uhlmann equipment, such as blister machines and cartoners, and updates them with more advanced controls, servo drives, tooling etc., offering companies a more economic option to new machinery.

November 18, 2016

Coding/marking

Serialization Software

Robust software addresses pharmaceutical counterfeiting and diversion; works with variety of camera and coding/marketing systems to create serialized numbers and then inspects codes printed onto packaging materials.

November 18, 2016

Cartoning

Compact cartoner and labeler offer speed and flexibility for Track & Trace requirements

Marchesini Group's MA 80 cartoner for vials, blisters and more reaches speeds of up to 120 cartons per minute while the BL A420 CW labeler features an integrated load cell for accurate positioning and checkweighing in a compact footprint.

November 18, 2016

Sustainability

Styrene-Free Medical Device Trays Improve Durability and Product Protection

Eastman’s Eastalite resin material is extruded by Pacur into sheet that's thermoformed by Plastics Ingenuity into trays that yield multiple benefits for medical device manufacturers.

November 18, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Delta: AC motor drive

Delta unveils its MH300/MS300 Series high performance, standard compact AC motor drive for Micro VFD applications up to 30 horsepower.

November 18, 2016

Conveying & accumulation

A floor-level accumulator offers true first-in-first-out feeding

The new DYNAC 6300 multi-lane accumulator from Hartness is a patent-pending floor-level system with a unique racetrack profile, providing pressureless single-file accumulating that outputs bottles sequentially just like customary vertical machines.

November 17, 2016

Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor turns and divides small packages in tight spaces

The Intralox company stresses that early conveying line design layout is essential in optimizing conveyor belt systems that quickly convey, turn, divide and route small packages such as boxes, poly bags and pouches.

November 17, 2016