Controls & Machine Components

Eaton Corporation: Control panel wiring system

Helping to reduce costs and improve reliability, Eaton has expanded connectivity options for the SmartWire-DT panel wiring system, replacing numerous wires used to connect motor control components with a single cable.

May 17, 2012

Machinery: Page 487

Controls & Machine Components

Emerson CHARMS provide flexible process control

Bruce Greenwald, DeltaV Platform Business Development manager, describes how electronic marshaling and CHARMS flexible I/O modules make configuring a process control system easier.

May 16, 2012

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

PepsiCo Brazil chooses liquid-carton filling equipment

Company adds liquid-carton filling machine to produce single-serve portions of its highly popular chocolate milk drink.

May 15, 2012

Material handling

UPS delivers $9 million of flu vaccine to Laos

Walgreens donates 375,000 doses that UPS air-ships more than 9,000 miles in five days through five countries, maintaining mandatory 2° to 8°C temperatures through a range of climates.

May 14, 2012

Adhesives/tape

A cool alternative to traditional hot melt can double your mileage

Liquamelt adhesive from H.B. Fuller is cool on delivery, hot on demand.

May 9, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

‘Playbook’ updates packaging automation specifications

When was the last time you reviewed your packaging machinery automation strategy? A lot has changed in recent years.

May 9, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Live from Interphex: New products from The Challenge Printing Company

The Challenge Printing Company introduces an expanded product line, including a variety of labels, and serialized booklets.

May 8, 2012

Filling/capping, dry

Live from Interphex: Filling module debut

A never-before-seen filling module by Bosch Packaging, which fills pellets and powders. It's a flexible platform that can pick up powder and doses into capsules.

May 8, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Live From Interphex: Carton printing track and trace module

The Bosch CPS800 is a carton printing system module, which consists of a print and a camera to automatically print and verify up to 400 cartons per minute. Tracking data is printed onto the product and automatically checked for accuracy by the camera with reads each printed digit. Within milliseconds it compares the human-readable text with the 2D data matrix code and verifies it for accuracy.

May 8, 2012

Material handling

Live From Interphex: New Easy-to-Use Temperature Loggers

Vaisala introduces the Vaisala Cold Chain logger CCL 100. A new logger which records and monitors time and temperature during the transport of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, biologics, and other perishable products. It's thin, and small, and it comes pre-calibrated and programmed. Provides 21 CFR Part 11-compliant records for temperature, relative humidity, differential pressure, level, door switches, and more.

May 8, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Live from Interphex: Labeling machine for unstable pharma containers

The Monostar Pharma labeler from Capmatic labels small products such as vials, syringes, and ampoules. The track-and-trace capabilities require the removal of a faulty label before it's applied onto the container. This prevents destruction of the entire product due to a labeling error, which can be quite costly.

May 8, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Packaging Technology: Interactive mobile device provides realtime customized data and guidance

Designed to reduce downtime and costs, Bosch Packaging Technology’s CBT Mobile interactive maintenance tool is a portable device that handles customized information to provide detailed technical guidance on packaging format changes, production troubleshooting, and standard operating procedures with immediate on-the-floor access.

May 8, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: High-speed modules

AutomationDirect’s Productivity3000 programmable automation controller line includes three new high-speed counter input and pulse output modules.

May 7, 2012