Controls & machine components

Aerotech, Inc: Aerotech, Inc: Linear motion stage

The ALS130H series linear motor stage from Aerotech provides good step-to-step resolution for high-precision alignment.

October 4, 2008

Machinery: Page 631

Controls & Machine Components

Keeping motion and logic separate

This builder of liquid filling machines maintains its belief in a motion controller that is separate from the PLC that governs a machine’s logic.

October 4, 2008

Sustainability

Palletizing's positive turn

Packaged goods companies are changing their ways as the need to reduce waste becomes increasingly important.

October 4, 2008

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Manufacturing megatrends

Want to know what the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade from Viet Nam has to say about the importance of his country automating manufacturing?

October 4, 2008

Sustainability

Sustainability's impact on machine design

Packaging machinery OEMs are finding that when it comes to sustainable packaging, they can help customers accomplish goals just as surely as suppliers of packaging materials can.

October 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC Packaging Workgroup to showcase the benefits of packaging line integration

The OMAC Packaging Workgroup (OPW) will showcase the “Benefits of Packaging Line Integration” in their booth at Pack Expo International 2008.

October 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pack Expo---a spotlight on green

Change, Innovation, and Sustainability are the key themes of this year’s Conference at Pack Expo. But conference speakers will shine the brightest spotlight on sustainability.

October 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Electronic latching valve

Clippard’s 2- and 3-way Electronic Latching Valve features small, compact design, quiet operation, a single moving element and more.

October 3, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

A machine builder's library

The SetLine is a complex machine comprising three dual-axis robots and a total of 12 servo motors.

October 3, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The bar-coding/RFID debate

During their BPPF presentation, Aaron Graham and Mike Celentano made it a point to say that Purdue Pharma is open to different technologies, including both RFID and bar coding.

October 3, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Lessons learned

Purdue Pharma has learned several valuable lessons as it’s proceeded with its RFID implementation.

October 3, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Purdue's packaging line process

At Purdue Pharma’s manufacturing and distribution facility in Wilson, NC, RFID is employed on one packaging line for bottles of the company’s OxyContin (oxycodone HCl controlled release) tablets.

October 3, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Mint-condition packaging

The United States Mint upgrades cartoning and casing operations for collectible, lens-packed proof coins.

October 3, 2008