Operational Excellence

Five tips to ensuring product integrity in temperature-sensitive distribution

UPS points to risk management planning, limiting supply chain handoffs, and quality agreements among five vital tips for temperature-sensitive product packaging and distribution.

June 6, 2013

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Controls & Machine Components

Mencom Corporation: Locking connectors

Mencom Corporation launches C13 Locking Connectors available in 3' and 6' lengths.

June 6, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Omega Engineering, Inc: Washdown duty stainless steel 3-phase AC motors

The WSS Series stainless steel motors are 3-phase industrial grade washdown duty motors made with 300 grade stainless steel housing.

June 6, 2013

Operational Excellence

Ideas to the rescue

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright once described an idea as "salvation by imagination."

June 5, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Media redundancy controller

Blending automation and IT protocols, WAGO Corporation’s new 750-885 Media Redundancy Controller provides applications with network redundancy and greater data processing.

June 5, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

ABB Drives & Power Products: Industrial AC drive

ABB introduces the foundation for an all-compatible drive portfolio: the ACS880 model features a whole new platform of drive technology.

June 5, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Packaging Equip. Co.: Auto-adjust system

For machine changeover points, it can improve overall equipment effectiveness, speed, and lower costs.

June 3, 2013

Secondary Packaging

How to optimize energy usage on a flow wrapper

By putting a variable frequency drive on a crucial vacuum pump and connecting electric power meters to the HMI by way of the controller, ACMA developed a “green machine.”

June 3, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Shrink-sleeving small cylindrical packages

Cosmetics producer installs specially engineered system to upgrade shrink-sleeve labeling efficiencies.

June 3, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motors for sanitary washdowns

Designed for humid and moist environments in the food and beverage industry, Baldor’s Super White Washdown Duty line of motors features an autophoretic autodeposition exterior surface preparation method that makes the white epoxy finish coat of these motors five times more resistant to corrosion and chipping than previous methods.

June 3, 2013

Material handling

Pharmaceutical serialization: Should you wait?

Exclusive Healthcare Packaging survey reveals half have yet to begin serialization projects, and more than 25% don’t plan to spend money on serialization this year!

June 3, 2013

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

High-speed bagging, less downtime with Triangle's X-series VFFS baggers

With fast changeover and speeds up to 150 bags per minute, Model XYS08 from Triangle Package Machinery is a continuous motion bagger that saves customers valuable time and improves productivity.

May 29, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Electronic measuring instruments

Phoenix Contact’s new EMpro measuring devices detect, monitor and analyze electrical characteristics, such as voltage, current, power, consumption, harmonics and network asymmetries, of machines and systems.

May 23, 2013