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Controls & machine components

Sensor software

Cognex introduces the In-Sight Explorer, a software package designed to complement the company's family of In-Sight vision sensors.

January 31, 2004

Labels

Flavor-infused packaging

Ferolito Vultaggio & Sons, creators of AriZona Iced Tea products, recently added a new water product to its beverage portfolio.

January 31, 2004

Labels

Award-winning milk design

Compass Design's package designs for Kemps' flavored milk recently won a Gold award from the 10th Annual Beverage Packaging Global Design Awards, a worldwide design competition for beverage packaging and branding.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC and WBF announce cooperation

Continuous, batch, and discrete manufacturing processes may soon share standardized models and naming conventions thanks to a January 28 announcement at the ARC Forum in Orlando, FL.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

White paper explains benefits of remote diagnostics

Improving data acquisition and analysis is high on the list of things to do for most manufacturers these days.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

The road to Gen3

As most readers of this newsletter know, Generation 3 is a term that describes a machine designed from the ground up to exploit the advantages of closed-loop servo control technology.

January 31, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Packaging excellence

"Striving for Packaging Excellence," an in-depth look at what’s coming down the pike in the packaging technology arena is produced by ARC Advisory Group.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Controls integration can boost supply chain efficiencies

In researching a March Packaging World story about how controls integration and information technologies can improve supply chain efficiencies, I wound up gathering more information than I could fit in the designated space.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Brenton Engineering hires Leuschke as vp sales and marketing

Brenton Engineering Co. hired Scott Leuschke as vp sales and marketing.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Danaher Motion: Danaher Motion: Microstepping drive

Danaher Motion introduces its Pacific Scientific P7000 Series microstepping drives that provide servo-like performance at a lower cost than conventional servo drives, company says. Drive offers Encoderless Stall Detection™, down to and including rest, without the use of a separate feedback device.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Interface converter

Rockwell Automation offers the new Universal Serial Bus (USB)-to-DH-485 interface converter that can enhance PLC-to-PC connectivity. Converter allows computers with USB ports to connect to DH-485 ports located on SLC 500, MicroLogix, and ControlLogix controllers, as well as PanelView terminals or 1747-AIC and 1761-NET-AIC isolators.

January 31, 2004

Contract Packaging

Cameron Holdings acquires Span Contract Packaging

Cameron Holdings Corp. purchased Span Contract Packaging, a contract packager for the pharmaceutical, consumer products, healthcare, cosmetic, and nutraceutical industries.

January 31, 2004