Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell: Controller

Improves accuracy and performance of high-speed applications.

July 15, 2016

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Cartoning

The making of a brand, and a co-pack plant

When American Naturals Co. needed more expertise than its co-packers provided, the dry food mix startup built a plant to build a brand—and a more efficient co-pack business.

July 15, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Honeywell: Experion PKS Orion

Industrial Internet of Things provides secure, cloud-based engineering to improve efficiency, save time and minimize risk.

July 14, 2016

Conveying & accumulation

Dual-lane checkweigher provides Rx for Teligent

Customized checkweigher matches specialty generic pharmaceutical company’s dual-lane filler, ensuring product quality and providing data to improve yields.

July 14, 2016

Contract packaging

Assessing contract packaging trends in the healthcare market

Steve Meeker, Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging’s President, discusses the impact of serialization, as well as machinery and materials trends.

July 14, 2016

Coding, Printing & Labeling

OMET demonstrates new print label machine

OMET Americas, Inc. debuts its iFLEX print label machine during its open house, and will showcase the machine during Labelexpo Americas 2016.

July 13, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Helical gearboxes

AutomationDirect’s IronHorse line of motor products now includes helical gearboxes which provide quiet startup and smooth operation in applications such as conveyors, packaging machines, rotary tables, and more.

July 12, 2016

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Robotic bow-tying system adds personal touch to chocolate boxes

Robotics solutions provider designs a system to wrap chocolate boxes with a ribbon and form a bow using a six-axis robot programmed to operate in a number of unusual angles.

July 9, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

KHK USA now has 15,000 metric gears available within three days

The largest selection of stock metric gears can be delivered anywhere in the U.S. in three business days.

July 8, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Kollmorgen: Natural navigation capability for AGVs

With the addition of natural navigation capability to Kollmorgen’s NDC8 platform, the need for reflectors or markers to the existing environment for navigation has been effectively removed.

July 8, 2016

Conveying & accumulation

Honeywell to acquire Intelligrated, a leader in supply chain automation technologies

Intelligrated will join Sensing and Productivity Solutions (S&PS) in Honeywell’s Automation and Controls Solutions business.

July 7, 2016

Flexible packaging

Multivac announces Brian Walker as a Western Region Field Service Technician

Walker will work closely with customers to ensure new installations are up to speed on the first day and to resolve all issues in the field quickly.

July 6, 2016

Conveying & accumulation

Dorner appoints new Northern Mexico Regional Manager

The new position's main goal is to establish brand recognition and growing sales in Mexico’s northern regions.

July 5, 2016