Controls & Machine Components

SEW-Eurodrive USA: Modular DR motor system

The energy-efficient DR motor series from SEW-EURODRIVE provides numerous drive combinations for packaging applications.

March 8, 2010

Machinery: Page 580

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: I/O terminal

Beckhoff’s EL3201-0020 temperature measurement terminal provides high-performance measurement technology in a simplified, cost-effective architecture.

March 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Universal signal conditioners

AutomationDirect’s 884114 and 84116 universal signal conditioners come in plastic slim-line housings to convert, isolate, and transmit scale signals from a wide variety of process sensor and controller I/O.

March 8, 2010

Palletizing/depalletizing

Line upgrade accommodates redesigned Gentleman Jack packaging

Jack Daniels team tips its cap to performance of new, high-efficiency capping equipment.

March 8, 2010

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Intralox Whisper Laner

The world’s fastest laner – is safe, simple, and compact, with no moving parts.

March 7, 2010

Secondary Packaging

Intralox activated roller belt pallet layer descrambler

A simple, low-cost solution to fully automate single-filing of complex pallet layer patterns.

March 7, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Intralox complex switching, diverting, and laning solution

A simpler, more cost-effective solution for handling very complex switching, diverting, and laning of a variety of package types.

March 7, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Intralox activated roller belt sorters

A cost-effective sorter solution capable of sorting bi-directionally as well as at 90 degree angles.

March 7, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Intralox Merging Solutions: Perpetual Merge

Intralox merge solutions: reliable package positioning, jam-free operation.

March 7, 2010

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

New low-acid aseptic plant hits the mark

SunOpta, Inc.'s new Modesto, CA, plant expands the company's capacity to process and co-pack soymilk and other nondairy milk alternatives for its West Coast customers.

March 7, 2010

Secondary Packaging

Cartoner

The Criterion® 3 large center cartoner from R.A. Jones is available in a constant motion model on 9 in. and 12 in. centers with speeds up to 330 cartons/minute.

March 6, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

The value of track and trace

If you’re a food manufacturer and you’re involved in a food ingredient recall, how challenging will it be to trace back which lots might have contained the ingredient in question?

March 5, 2010

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

White paper: Justifying Hi-Speed pouching

This case study explains how a British food processor justified installing one Pouch King high-speed pouching system from R.A. Jones & Co. to replace five low-speed lines through productivity gains and labor savings.

March 2, 2010