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Secondary Packaging

Continuous-motion robotic case packer improves container handling

Video shows new technology from Hartness Intl. that handles a wide range of product, including lightweighted containers or difficult shapes.

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Secondary Packaging

Video shows sophisticated warehouse system for automating mixed pallet creation

Hartness Vertique warehouse system shows how incoming homogeneous pallets are automatically converted to mixed pallets based on specific customer orders.

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Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor platforms

The X45 and X45e conveyor platforms from FlexLink are a compact and efficient solution for handling small products.

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Conveying & accumulation

PET line brings capacity, flexibility to Coke plant

Anchored by a blow/fill/cap Combi system, this new line handles three bottle sizes and reaches 32,000 bottles/hr on 1.5-L bottles. Just two 'pilots' are required to guide it.

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Cartoning

Candy maker sweetens shrink-wrapping efficiencies

New system integrates seamlessly, increases productivity, and reduces film costs.

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Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Biometric switch

Schneider Electric’s Harmony™ Biometric Switch uses biometric fingerprint-recognition technology in order to grant employee access to sensitive areas and machine functions.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pressure sensors

Ifm’s compact PQ Series pressure sensors measure a full range of pressure and vacuum typical in pneumatic applications.

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Controls & Machine Components

Balluff: RFID for tool identification

The Fanuc miLink Tool ID interface from Balluff is designed to interconnect and automate the entering and tracking of tooling information to a Fanuc based CNC from a Balluff RFID Tool ID system.

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Controls & Machine Components

Flex America Inc: Customized valve solution

Ross' customized valves created and tested by ROSS/FLEX® specialists can produce simple, easy-to-troubleshoot and maintain valve systems.

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Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Solid-state overload relay

Rockwell Automation’s Allen Bradley Bulletin 193-EC5 E3 Plus solid-state overload relay features voltage protection and energy monitoring.

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Controls & machine components

Cognex Corporation: Surface inspection software

VisionPro® Surface from Cognex Corp. combines visual defect detection and classification technology with a simple user interface.

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Controls & Machine Components

AS-interface module

The G11 Module for AS-interface specification 3.0 from Pepperl+Fuchs features 4in/4out, a multi-function LED on each port, sturdy mounting base, short circuit output protection and 4 Amp output current in an 85 mm diameter housing.

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