Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Safety light curtains

Two series of AutomationDirect’s safety light curtains (active optoelectronic protective devices) provide human protection and product/machine safety where risks cannot be eliminated by machine design and the process might require frequent and open access during operation.

April 8, 2011

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Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Quick-release mechanism protects cables

Siemens’ Speed Connect is a quick-release mechanism that protects against vibration shakeout on its Motion-Connect® line of power and signal cables.

April 8, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Safety interlock switch

The D40Z Safety Interlock Switch from Omron Scientific Technologies is a compact, non-contact interlock switch that delivers category 4 safety protection.

April 8, 2011

Controls & machine components

Banner Engineering Corp.: Intuitive touchscreen vision sensor

The iVu Plus touchscreen vision sensor from Banner Engineering stores up to 30 inspections and distinguishes among up to 10 patterns with a new sort sensor function.

April 8, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: PLC for HVAC/R machines

Schneider Electric’s Modicon M168 PLC uses flexible architectures, customized design and SoHVAC software to help OEMs and end users to remotely monitor energy consumption, machine shutdowns, and other problems, improving performance, optimizing costs, and speeding time-to-market for HVAC/R machines.

April 8, 2011

Containers

Balluff: Capacitive proximity sensors

Balluff’s economical Global.CProx line of capacitive proximity sensors reliably solve object and level detection applications.

April 8, 2011

Labels

Shrink sleeve label--graphics and info

The newest product from Barn Dad Innovation Nutrition relies on a full-body shrink sleeve label to carry gorgeous graphics at the same time that it contains valuable information and nutrition facts.

April 8, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

USDA awards Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. first Certified Biobased Product Label on its Renewable Thermo

Renewable thermoformed produce packaging developed by Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. has earned the industry’s first U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product Label, part of a new voluntary labeling program to help purchasers choose products made with biobased commodities.

April 7, 2011

Conveying & accumulation

Hamburger assembly, packaging gets synchronized

Kepak Group, one of Ireland’s leading food processing companies, is now benefiting from a new assembly and packaging line for its Rustlers brand of microwavable hamburger-and-bun products in which every individual unit responds flexibly to the product flow in the upstream and downstream sections of the line.

April 7, 2011

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Everyone's looking at you, kid

Call me paranoid if you must, but there certainly seems to be a trend toward increased quality control demands on packaging manufacturers.

April 7, 2011

Closures

Focus on machine flexibility

A bottler and distributor for The Coca-Cola Co., Baton Rouge Coca-Cola Bottling Company United must be flexible enough to quickly adapt to Coca-Cola’s frequent packaging changes and new introductions. Here, the bottler’s operations manager, Michael Lurker, talks about some of these challenges as they relate to packaging equipment.

April 7, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Greener Package Awards gain in prestige

New, more substantive entry requirements rely on emerging industry standards to eliminate greenwash and identify excellence.

April 6, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Omron Electronics LLC: Slim safety door switches

Omron Scientific Technologies’ D4GS-N Slim Safety Door Switches are 17 mm wide, feature IP67 protection, and come with a tongue actuated design to fit in skinny spaces subject to water washdown cleaning.

April 6, 2011