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Controls & Machine Components

Grove Gear: Gear drive products

Able to withstand the harshest conditions, the newest stainless steel industrial worm gears from Grove Gear are sizes 218 and 220. These gear drives offer good corrosion protection because of their stainless steel housing, cover, and external hardware.

December 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Screwless terminal blocks

Automation Direct has added a line of screwless terminal blocks to its product offering. The line features a range of models, including feed-through, double-level, 1-to-2 connection, 2-to-2 connection, knife blade disconnect, and screwless ground terminal blocks.

December 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

United Biscuits: Infeed conveyors for cookie packaging line

Freshly baked ginger snaps are conveyed from the first floor oven up to infeed conveyors, from Sigpack Systems, leading to the packaging machinery.

December 31, 2004

Flow wrapping

United Biscuits: Portioning of cookies

Cookies are automatically portioned by a Sigpack Systems machine before being sent to the flow wrapper.

December 31, 2004

Flow wrapping

United Biscuits: Flow wrapping of cookies

United Biscuits' own-brand Ginger Snaps are flow wrapped in cold-seal film.

December 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

United Biscuits: Case packing on a cookie line

Robotic case packing on a Sigpack machine is gentle, fast, and flexible.

December 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

United Biscuits: Accumulation on a cookie packaging line

Show here are twin packs moving into and then out of the Sigpack accumulation system before moving on to case packing.

December 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Understanding and increasing packaging line productivity

Michael Mailutha of Pfizer Global Manufacturing and Ignacio Munoz-Guerra, AutoPak Engineering Corp. co-delivered the presentation Ways to Increase Packaging Productivity and Reduce Bottlenecks, at the 2004 International Pack Expo in Chicago in November.

December 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

'Innovation is indispensable'

Securing the role of low-cost provider can fuel growth for a while, but manufacturers today are better off relying on innovation as their path to sustained growth.

December 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

ARC study: ROI for RFID is lacking

For a study released in November, the ARC Advisory Group talked to 24 companies that were actively investing in EPC (Electronic Product Code) RFID. The study includes best practices.

December 31, 2004

Labels

Conductive Inks: RFID's silver lining?

If RFID is going to make it to the item level, package printers are likely to play a leading role.

December 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

UF project meshes bar code and RFID technology

Research at the University of Florida on a productivity-tracking system for manual case packing is receiving an RFID-enabled boost using a multifunctional device.

December 31, 2004