Material handling

CDC, UPS deliver temperature-sensitive flu vaccines to Laos

Nearly 100,000 influenza vaccines in prefilled syringes travel more than 5,000 miles in just three days, maintaining a 3° to 7° C temperature range.

June 20, 2013

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Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Compact all-in-one drive

Schneider Electric Motion USA introduces the Lexium MDrive.

June 20, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Multi-axis controllers

Siemens’ new generation of Simotion D445-2 multi-axis controllers extends the upper performance range with new features such as onboard Profinet interfaces, high-speed I/O, and with three times the performance, a single controller can support up to 128 axes of motion.

June 19, 2013

Secondary Packaging

Tape carry handles and bundler

Carry handles make the handling of packages convenient and stands out from the crowd. Higher production output in the beverage industry requires innovative high speed carry handle applicators.

June 18, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Locking RFID seals

CYBRA Corporation annouunces a new tamper evident, single use RFID tagging solution – Lock & EnCode™ Locking RFID Seals.

June 18, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Spring clamp terminal block equivalents

Automation Systems Interconnect, Inc. announces it now offers drop-in equivalents to more expensive DIN rail mounted spring clamp terminal blocks.

June 18, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Combination motor/drive package

Integrated drive system provides OEMs and end-users cost-effective Simotics motor and Sinamics drive packages from single source.

June 18, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

A reprieve from California e-pedigree?

House and Senate serialization bills could push back packaging line expenditures, but wouldn’t do much to counter pharmaceutical counterfeiting.

June 17, 2013

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Compound end lining system

Provides repeatable compound dispensing; brings material savings and reduced downtime in end lining and closure operations.

June 17, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Ultra-compact intelligent drives

TECHNOSOFT announces new drives, based on the IPOS family design concept of closed-frame intelligent drives.

June 17, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: High-current DC-DC converters

WAGO Corporation’s High-Current 789 Series DC-DC Converters power I/O within mobile manufacturing, remote energy production and material handling applications.

June 17, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Drive platform with Ethernet connectivity

Siemens announces that its versatile Sinamics G120 drive system has been enhanced to include EtherNet/IP connectivity.

June 14, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

OEE in packaging: deceptively simple

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is being used with increasing frequency in the packaging industry. The reason for its popularity lies in the fact that the metric is easy to understand and relatively easy to apply. However, it is also easy to misuse. Here’s how to avoid doing so.

June 14, 2013