Controls & Machine Components

lpha gear drives, Inc: Right-angle gearhead

The right angle design of the V-Drive series gearheads from Alpha Gear Drives (Elk Grove Village, IL) allows them to be used in a variety of applications where space is at a premium.

February 28, 2001

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Controls & Machine Components

Canfield Connector: Mini sensor

The 9B sensor, with a 3.8-mm diameter, fits into a 4-mm round keyway slot on a cylinder or actuator. The ultra-miniature sensor, from Canfield Connector (Youngstown, OH), uses a small, remote sensing device to relay a signal back to a PLC or PC.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

CTC Parker Automation: Distributed I/O

CTC Parker Automation (Milford, OH) now offers distributed I/O for its line of PC-based controls. CTC is now licensed to sell I/O products from Wieland Electric (Bamberg, Germany).

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Viewtronix Inc: Industrial workstations

Viewtronix (Ann Arbor, MI) offers 4 models of NEMA 4/12 industrial panel-mount workstations for use in harsh environment applications. The IC Workstation series is available in 10.4”, 12”, 15” and 18” flat-panel display sizes.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Expanded micro PLC line

Siemens Energy and Automation (Alpharetta, GA) has expanded its Simatic S7-200 micro PLC product offering to include 8 CPU options, 25 digital and analog expansion modules, and more user-friendly software.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Balluff: Linear position sensors

Balluff’s (Florence, KY) new Micropulse magnetostrictive linear position sensors are available with a Profibus-DP interface. The profile-style sensors offer a stroke length up to 157” and provide sub-millisecond position updates, position resolution of 0.0002” and velocity resolution of 0.004”/sec.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electronics Americ: Mitsubishi Electronics Americ: Micro-drive

Mitsubishi Electric Automation (Vernon Hills, IL) has released the S500 Series variable frequency drive, which is designed to be simple to use, configure and operate.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Computational Systems Inc: Monitoring systems

CSI (Knoxville, TN) offers the 4500 Series Online RBM Consultant, a monitoring tool that can be used with packaging equipment. Handles 32 channels of sensor inputs, 16 pulse tach inputs and 16 opto-type digital I/O relay channels for online monitoring of machinery.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

LINPAC: Product catalog

Linpac Materials Handling (Georgetown, KY) offers a full line product catalog describing Ropak™ brand reusable container systems. The 20-page, full-color catalog highlights 3230, 4048, 4548, Extended Length, Fixed Wall and Hopper Bottom containers with photos, size specifications, dimensions and weight capacities.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Service Industries: Replacement slats for bottle fillers

Service Industries (Rolling Meadows, IL) introduces replacement slats for bottle filling machines. These inexpensive change parts are compatible with existing equipment from most slat-style filler manufacturers.

February 28, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

RxPak: Bottles being oriented

The Kalish bottle unscrambler is fed from a floor-level hopper on this prescription drug repackaging line. It unscrambles and orients bottles before placing them on a conveyor leading to an air rinse unit.

February 28, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

RxPak: Semi-automatic case erector

On this prescription drug repackaging line, shrink-bundled containers are conveyed down a roller conveyor to a semi-automatic top-and-bottom taper from Belcor (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada).

February 28, 2001

Converting equipment

A clear 'Hero'

When Dutch drink manufacturer Hero Nederland BV launched its FruitOntbijt breakfast drink in April '00, it sought a transparent, cost-effective container to compliment its new beverage. Hero found its solution in Millad 3988, a clarifier from Milliken Chemical (Spartanburg, SC).

February 28, 2001