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Closures

FDA eyeing changes in drug packaging regulations

FDA is finalizing its rule on reporting requirements for changes to drug packaging made after approval of a new drug application. Currently, the drug manufacturer need only note the changes in its annual report to FDA.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

SERCOS N.A.: SERCOS conformance test

A new conformance test for SERCOS interface controls, servo drives, and I/O stations is now available from SERCOS N.A. (Bloomingdale, IL). Test software ensures that SERCOS interface products from various manufacturers are compatible and interoperable at the SERCOS Conformance Class A level.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

ROY-G-BIV Corp.: Programming software

Extensions for Motion Control (XMC®) motion control communications software products from ROY-G-BIV (Bingen, WA) can help reduce the cost of programming motion controllers and decrease the time it takes to integrate motion systems with different machine control architectures.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Scientific: SERCOS-based drives

New PC840 servo drives series from Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL) use SERCOS interface for closed-loop, real-time distributed control. The SERCOS chip ensures each drive receives update commands, such as positioning, velocity, or torque, from the controller as fast as every 500 microseconds.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Tri-Tronics Company: Tri-Tronics Company: Computer-controlled sensor

Tri-Tronics (Tampa, FL) has introduced the first photoelectric sensors that can be configured, adjusted and monitored directly from a computer, according to the company.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Efector, Inc: Efector, Inc: AS-I controller

ifm efector (Exton, PA) has released a SmartLogic™ unit that operates as an AS-i module with 4 inputs and 4 outputs. Module uses a programmable microprocessor with an 8-kb program memory that adds fast, local control functions to AS-i installations.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

FEMC: FEMC: Piston fillers sport HMI

FEMC (Bedford Heights, OH) piston fillers are now equipped with Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers and interfaces from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) that control nearly every aspect of the filler’s operation.

November 30, 2001

Secondary Packaging

: Overwrapping machinery

Package Machinery Co. (West Springfield, MA) offers the FA-ST series of overwrapping machinery. Machines have been updated with servo-technology from Allen Bradley.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Reliance Electric: Drives and motors catalog

A 432-page catalog from Reliance® Electric (Greenville, SC) describes line of adjustable-speed drives and motors. Detailed are AC and DC drives and motors, options and accessories, the Custom Classic line, and a complete listing of product demonstrators and training programs.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc: Package tracking software

The Internet Tracking Recovery and Asset Management (iTRAM™) from Hoover Materials Handling Group (Alpharetta, GA) is an application service provider for tracking returnable packaging.

November 30, 2001

Closures

Recycled-content regs

At press time, the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) was considering some changes it might enact to that state’s regulations on recycled plastic content in rigid plastic containers.

November 30, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Can labeling improves logistics

In Vejle, Denmark, where a company called Tulip operates Northern Europe’s largest meat packing plant, preprinted round cans are giving way to round cans that are decorated in-line via roll-fed labelers.

November 30, 2001