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Controls & Machine Components

AMK Drives: Integrated servo motor and drive

The all-inclusive compact servo motor and integrated servo drive from AMK (Warrington, PA) provides from 5 to 20 hp at speeds to 45ꯠ rpm. It interfaces with analog, digital, SERCOS, CANBUS, and Profibus networks.

August 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Efector, Inc: Efector, Inc: Mini photoelectric sensors

The OJ family of sensors from ifm efector (Exton, PA) provides automated setup/calibration and signal strength monitoring in housings that measure 15/16”x1¾”x7/16”.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Wireless DeviceNet

Omron (Shaumburg, IL) has developed a wireless DeviceNet product that allows users to connect to any DeviceNet-compatible product. Product is ideal for difficult-to-access areas that require a lot of cable.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Sub-1kW servo drive

Rexroth Bosch (Hoffman Estates, IL) introduces the Indramat EcoDrive 16 amp, a SERCOS, DeviceNet®. Profibus-S and Can-Open compatible, sub-1 kw servo drive.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Distributed servo drive

Intended for use with packaging machinery, the Simodrive Posmo A distributed drive system from Siemens Energy & Automation (Alpharetta, GA) is an intelligent positioning motor that resides as a node on a Profibus-DP network, receiving both power and signaling on one cable.

August 31, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pacific Scientific: Small-footprint drives

Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL) PC3400 brushless servo drives have a small footprint that makes them especially applicable for packaging, printing, and labeling applications.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Single-axis digital drives

Allen-Bradley Ultra3000® single-axis digital servo drives from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) store up to 64 configurable indexes that can be incremental distance moves, absolute position moves, or sensor-based motion moves.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Ormec: FireWire digital drives

Ormec (Rochester, NY) ServoWire® digital drives in 25, 35, and 60 amps RMS/phase models provide power from 150 to 15ꯠ watts. Networking capability is IEEE-1394 (FireWire)-based for high speeds and cost-effective industry standard cabling.

August 31, 2001

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Rollstock, Inc: Rollstock, Inc: Rollstock, Inc: Web-enabled hf/f/s machine

Hooper Engineering (Sarasota, FL) touts the N2500 horizontal f/f/s system as the world’s first Web-enabled packaging machine. It packages food, pharmaceutical, medical devices, and other products into packs formed from rollstock.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

ProSys Innovative Packaging Equip.: ProSys Innovative Packaging Equip.: Servos speed aerosol filler

roSys Innovative Packaging Equipment (Webb City, MO) has designed a servo-controlled filler for a customer for filling a viscous sealant into a can that’s then pressurized.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Scientific: Real-time engineering answers

Customers receive instant answers from engineers for questions pertaining to Pacific Scientific’s (Rockford, IL) motion control products or applications through the company’s www.pacsci.com Web site.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Kollmorgen: Interactive Web community

Patterned after a typical design cycle, Kollmorgen’s (Radford, VA) Motion Village™ is described as an online Web community designed to provide resources and engineering solutions as a way to increase machine design engineer productivity.

August 31, 2001