Controls & Machine Components

Eurotherm: Eurotherm: Data management system

Eurotherm, a unit of Invensys plc, has announced the release of a new Advanced Screen Builder feature in the 5000 Series Data Management System. This feature enables 24 custom user screens to be created and viewed at the instrument’s touch screen.

January 31, 2005

Machinery: Page 789

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The Packaging Pushback Club

Among the more regrettable developments in the ongoing saga of RFID implementation is the emergence of what I like to call the Packaging Pushback Club. You know them.

January 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Post Pack Expo observations on machinery developments

Chinna Chinnakaruppan, manager of project engineering at Schering-Plough’s Kenilworth, NJ, plant, talks about recent trends in packaging machinery.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

MIT's RFID field probe

The Auto-ID Labs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, has developed an inexpensive field probe that emulates an RFID tag but yields much more robust information than simple trial-and-error, pass or fail testing.

January 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

January 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Companies

ID Technology has been signed as exclusive national distributor for MASCA Marking and Coding Laser Systems. ID Technology has also added an RFID business unit to its overall operations.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

No label change, say two juice makers

Coca-Cola North America, manufacturers of Minute Maid orange juice, and Tropicana, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., rejected a call by the Florida Department of Citrus to change the labeling on packages of “light” orange juice after studies showed consumers were confused about the juice content of the products.

January 31, 2005

Labels

Uniform compliance date

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has established January 1, 2008, as the uniform compliance date for new food labeling regulations issued between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006.

January 31, 2005

Closures

FDA's subtle supplement message

Agency pushes ‘gently’ to achieve more accurate information on dietary supplement product labels.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Controls solution helps OEM grow its business

Decreased design time enables this machinery builder to expand product line by 300% with just a 10% increase in personnel.

January 31, 2005

Cartoning

Schering-Plough hits quality goal with Nutec/Wolke system

The Nutec/Wolke thermal inkjet system, utilizing HP technology, adds operational simplicity to lines. Setup is 21CFR11 “friendly”.

January 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Project Jumpstart: A "bird's" eye view

RFID Antenna exclusive: Cardinal Health shares the ups and downs of the extensive Project Jumpstart pilot test of item- and case-level RFID for pharmaceutical products.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Oriental Motor USA: Motorized cylinders

Oriental Motor USA introduces the new EZ Limo series of linear motion products. It combines advanced step-motor functionality and sophisticated motion-control features into easy-to-use linear motion products.

December 31, 2004