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Conveying & accumulation

Pepperl + Fuchs: Photoelectric sensors

GLV18 Series photoelectric sensors with Clear Object Detection from Pepperl+Fuchs use reflectors to consistently detect transparent objects up to 2.5 m away, or opaque objects up to 5 m away.

September 28, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Spindle motors

Designed for all types of production machinery and machine tools, Siemens’ 1PH8 family of spindle motors are available in a power range from 2.8 kW up to 1340 kW, and combine induction and high-powered servo technologies.

September 28, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Thomson: Aluminum linear shafting

Thomson’s Ultra Light Aluminum LinearRace® Shafting is 65% lighter than typical linear shafting, and is constructed of 6061-T6 aluminum with an HRC 70 hard anodized finish.

September 28, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Universal controller

The SCX10 universal controller from Oriental Motor is a single axis universal stepping motor controller that operates any motor via 3 serial communication protocols: RS-232C, CANopen and USB interface.

September 28, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech, Inc: Nanopositioning rotary stages

Aerotech’s ANT95-R and ANT130-R direct-drive rotary stages offer in-position stability (0.005 arc sec) and incremental motion (0.01 arc sec).

September 27, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Accumulation Solutions: Best Practices according to Application

Nercon Eng. & Mfg., Inc. provides this video and white paper on various specialized accumulators and the applications that work best with each type of machine.

September 23, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Save up front cost for purchasing conveyors by using Modular Conveyors from Nercon

This video is an overview of Nercon's modular cost effective conveyor program that provides proven designs that are in stock or pre-engineered for quick delivery.

September 23, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

10 tips for energy-efficient and sustainable conveyors

Watch this short video from Nercon to learn how to reduce energy, improve efficiencies and reduce waste on your packaging lines.

September 23, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Pharmaceutical glass vial accumulation converts mass-flow to single file

Video shows Garvey's pharmaceutical vial accumulator/single-file conveyor system convert from mass flow to single-file vials. Tray load infeeds shown.

September 23, 2010

Labels

Barbara Drillings named new marketing communications manager for The RB Dwyer Group

The RB Dwyer Group a full service converter, manufacturer and printer of heat shrink sleeve labels, tamper evident bands and performs, has hired Barbara Drillings as new marketing communications manager.

September 21, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Linear/rotary actuator packages

Four new linear/rotary actuator packages (EZA, EZCII, PWAII & SPV) from Oriental Motor are designed for greater ease of use and higher performance in positioning applications, and feature the Alpha-Step stepping motor with built-in closed loop performance.

September 21, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Controller

The new Simatic® CPU 317TF-2DP controller from Siemens combines motion control, safety and standard tasks in a single device to integrate and combine devices for the plant floor environment, reducing footprints and improving efficiencies.

September 21, 2010