Controls & Machine Components

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January 31, 2006

Materials: Page 556

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tips: Stop RFID Tag Damage Caused by Static

RFID tags can be damaged by static. Receive Tech Tips brief from Simco on how to reduce damage from direct electrostatic discharge.

January 30, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Brenton acquires Robocaser product line

Pro Mach's Brenton Engineering div. acquired the Robocaser product line from Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed, Inc.

December 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

SidePouch bagging system

The FAS SPrint SidePouch bagging system from Automated Packaging Systems has a conveyor of pre-opened bags ready for immediate loading from a 60"-wide load area.

December 31, 2005

Closures

Build sales through universal design

In 1985, Ron Mace, an internationally renowned architect, product designer, and educator, coined the term “universal design” (UD).

December 31, 2005

Labels

P&G extends branding to cap, meeting tight launch timetable

Distinctive on-cap shrink-sleeve label clarifies new product varieties in cross-promotion for Tide with Febreze while also passing rigorous production-line requirements.

December 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Wireless RFID printer-applicators

Avery Dennison Printer Systems now offers wireless Ethernet capability for its full line of RFID and bar code printers and print-and-apply systems, including the Model 6405 Wireless RFID printer (shown).

December 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID training classes in Michigan

Lowry Computer Products and OTA Training launch vendor neutral training starting early next month in Michigan.

December 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wal-Mart, others face RFID difficulty in China

Most Chinese enterprises have little interest in RFID.

December 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

A trio of major RFID influences in 2006

Expect overseas tags, EPCglobal standards struggle, and RFID label converter repositioning through 2006.

December 31, 2005

Labels

Technical advances in RFID at hand

New advances in RFID include long-range HF tags, devices that work well with challenging substances, and tags that are sterilization tolerant.

December 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Item-level ePedigree implementation

An item-level serialized RFID solution with "parent-child" association software is rolling out with five pharma pilots including for Pfizer's Viagra.

December 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Flexible case sealers

Pearson offers its new line of case sealers including two base models, the CS25 and the CS40. Both models can be configured to fit all sealing needs.

December 31, 2005