Controls & Machine Components

Danfoss Drives: Danfoss Drives: Variable-frequency drives

Danfoss VLTR Series variable-frequency drives are now available with power through 1,350 HP in 460 and 690 VAC.

August 4, 2008

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Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Power cage clamp

Wago has added 2 new terminals to its 285 Series of Power Cage Clamps®, rounding out the only spring-type terminal block line that terminates conductors from 2 AWG to 4/0.

August 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Smaller, lighter machinery drives

ABB’s ACS350 general machinery drives are designed and built to enable volume machine builders to increase average throughput time via an average 2-sec programming time per unit.

August 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Enhanced variable frequency drives

Lenze-AC Tech has released higher power, enhanced SMVector NEMA1 drives.

August 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Kits for rapid design verification

The MDrivePlus product line from IMS now includes QuickStart Kits for NEMA motor sizes 14, 17, 23, 34, and 42.

August 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Worm gearboxes

AutomationDirect expanded its mechanical power transmission product line to include worm gearboxes in four frame sizes and six gear ratios from 5:1 to 60:1.

August 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

PAC brings glue application under central control

Tray packing machines are no different than all the other equipment in the packaging machinery universe. To be suitable for today’s marketplace, they must be flexible enough to offer fast and easy format changes.

August 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Lessons learned: packaging materials

Advice about packaging materials from nearly 700 responses to a May 2008 survey centered on themes of sustainability and quality.

August 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Soup maker 'soups up' printing/coding efficiencies

Kettle Cuisine standardizes on one coding supplier for foodservice pouches, retail cup labels, and corrugated shipping cases.

August 4, 2008

Cartoning

Automation shines at Heinz

Smart Ones frozen meals are whisked through a highly automated packaging line at Heinz’s Pocatello, ID, facility. Cartoning and vision inspection stand out.

August 4, 2008

Sustainability

Sustainability news & events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

August 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging and food safety

On a regular basis, foodborne illness outbreaks are reported in the news.

August 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

How can they get away with that? (Well, maybe they can't.)

For all those who have ever looked at Internet ads or emails or late-night infomercials for dietary supplement and food products claiming all sorts of medical miracles and wondered, ‘How can they get away with that?’ the answer appears that at least some of them cannot.

August 4, 2008