Controls & Machine Components

Cup filler

The Jackopack 4-cup filling machine from Tek Makina fills dairy products such as yogurt drinks and crème fraiche in quantities from 50g to 500g at constant speeds of 92 cups/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Stainless-steel PC front

To accommodate industrial PC users with stringent environmental requirements, Beckhoff Automation has introduced IP65-rated accessories for its C36xx PC line.

March 9, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Festo Corporation: Multi-axis controllers/drives

The Festo SE-AC-SMLC Multi-Axis Controller is at the center of a fully integrated control solution providing hardware and software building blocks that are engineered to easily plug together and work as a system.

March 9, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Ethernet capability

AC Technology now offers a 10/100 mbps Ethernet port on its Model 940 PositionDrive.

March 9, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

THK America, Inc: THK America, Inc: High-efficiency actuator

THK’s new Type VLA Actuator has fewer components and a low overall cost, by using a TLK LM guide for its base.

March 9, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SAP: Printer networking

Now available from Loftware is a new technology for connecting SAP® enterprise systems to the company’s Printer Server® to solve the “last mile” connectivity problem for SAP customers, who usually drive SAP-derived data to networks of printers.

March 9, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SAP: Printer networking

Now available from Loftware is a new technology for connecting SAP® enterprise systems to the company’s Printer Server® to solve the “last mile” connectivity problem for SAP customers, who usually drive SAP-derived data to networks of printers.

March 9, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

B&R Industrial Automation: Ultra-fast Ethernet

B&R Industrial Automation offers Ethernet Powerlink, a platform with a completely open, 100% software-based system that can utilize Gigabit Ethernet to run 10 times faster than other real-time Ethernet options on the market.

March 9, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label applicator is a perfect fit

Sea Breeze deploys low-volume printing solution.

March 9, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

New labelers benefit from high-speed serial network

Simplified programming and smooth coordination of all axes of motion are key benefits gained now that a new-generation PLC has been incorporated in these labelers.

March 9, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

Data flows from ERP to packaging machines

Just five operators run two lines that span three floors and churn out 600 bottles/min. An automated order system plays a pivotal role in streamlining changeover.

March 9, 2007

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

CAN-based concepts run food slicing machine

A CAN network links I/O, a checkweigher, and an optical weigher over a distance of 164’.

March 9, 2007

Flexible packaging

Smooth operation

A modified liquid filler helps one commercial skincare products company clean up its act.

March 9, 2007