Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: Controller option

Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL) has added functionality to its resolver-based PS-5000 Series programmable limit switch controllers with the addition of the “-D” Option.

August 31, 2000

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Controls & Machine Components

CTC Parker Automation: Ethernet driver

CTC Parker Automation’s (Milford, OH) Allen-Bradley Ethernet Driver allows use of its Interact HMI software for Ethernet communications to Allen-Bradley SLC-5 and PLC-5 controllers on the factory floor.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Servo Repair Intl.: Servo repair service

Servo Repair Intl. (Glenshaw, PA) says it repairs AC and DC servo motors to original specs usually in less time and cost than a new one can be shipped from the OEM.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Pilz International: Safety fieldbus

Pilz’s (Farmington Hills, MI) new PSS SB DI16 is a remote digital input module that provides 16 inputs for the Pilz SafteyBUS p® safe fieldbus system to control decentralized safety-device applications such as light curtains, safety gates or E-Stops.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Rock-Tenn Company: Grease/oil barrier packaging

Rock-Tenn (Norcross, GA) has announced that its Stainless News™ fluorochemical-treated paperboard will no longer contain perfluorooctanyl (PFOS). The company has developed alternative solutions for paperboard products that require barrier or masking protection from grease or oil.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Domino: Food-grade ink

Domino Amjet’s (Gurnee, IL) 432BL is for applications where direct or incidental contact between ink and edible product is made. It can also be applied to gelatin capsules or tablets in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications.

August 31, 2000

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Filamatic, a division of National Instrument LLC: Aseptic packaging

A total of 8 servo-driven filling heads fill as many as 200 containers/min on National Instrument’s (Baltimore, MD) Filamatic® RFS-800 monobloc system.

August 31, 2000

Filling/capping, dry

Capper

Operating at speeds to 400 caps/min, the CM400 capper from Cozzoli (Plainfield, NJ) offers automatic height adjustment to accommodate a range of container sizes.

August 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Cutler-Hammer: Cutler-Hammer: Sensor system for conveyor

The 200 Series noncontact photoelectric sensor system from Cutler-Hammer (Everett, WA) comes complete with sensors, premeasured cables (with preinstalled connectors on the main bus cable) and power supplies that snap together.

August 31, 2000

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Illinois Instruments: Oxygen analyzer

The Model 6500 oxygen analyzer from Illinois Instruments (Ingleside, IL) measures headspace oxygen levels from 0.001% to 100% in flexible or rigid packages.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tomato packing picks up speed

New blow-on print-and-apply labelers at UK tomato packer Hazlewood VHB have vastly improved labeling efficiencies. The Littlehampton, England, firm installed five Sirius labelers in late ’99, three in its Ash facility and two in Littlehampton.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Appointments, promotions

KoSa (Charlotte, NC): George B. Gregory, president, CEO.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

House forms biotech caucus

Congress is facing an increasing number of legislative decisions relating to products produced through biotechnology, such as labeling of biotech foods.

August 31, 2000