Controls & Machine Components

Single cable simplifies servo connections to DIN rail-mounted controls

Beckhoff Automation shows you how One Cable technology can provide motor power, feedback and thermal information, via EtherCAT, between its CX-200 family DIN rail-mounted PC-based controls to multiple two servo motors, including a washdown-rated stainless steel design.

October 7, 2013

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Controls & Machine Components

Three positioning solutions...which one's right for your application?

This demonstration from Bimba Manufacturing shows basic, intermediate and advanced solutions for positioning. Which is right for you? Pneumatics, servo-pneumatics or a double electric-actuator solution? Watch this video for the pros & cons of each.

October 7, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

How can green packaging be simultaneously more AND less important to todays consumers?

There’s both more and less interest in going green. It’s a head-scratcher, but Mintel Group's Lynn Dornblaser unraveled the mystery to Pack Expo 2013 attendees.

October 7, 2013

Secondary Packaging

All-electric palletizer is versatile, with advanced features

Model L7 all-electric palletizer from TopTier offers advanced features like an HMI that permits configuring settings and shows maintenance required; controls that catch pattern/case problems during the infeed stage; and automatic film recovery after breakage. All-electric operation means no pneumatics.

October 7, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Integrated safety on a valve terminal

At Festo's Pack Expo booth was a demonstration of how a Profibus fieldbus node can be connected to a safety network. This allows reliable communication to a pneumatic valve manifold, thus eliminating additional hardware.

October 7, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

AMERIPEN takes initiative on waste reduction, material recovery

New AMERIPEN Executive Director Donna Dempsey provides an overview of some of the association's latest projects, including its 100 Cities Survey of packaging recovery in America's 100 largest cities, and its new white paper, €œAMERIPEN Analysis of Strategies and Financial Platforms to Increase the Recovery of Used Packaging.

October 7, 2013

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Horizontal sealer boosts production 50%

Get a close-up tour of the new Packworld USA PW 3416 horizontal vacuum bag sealer, which features a new user interface developed with direct input from a customer. Find out how it helped that customer to both eliminate ergonomics-related injuries and increasing production 50%.

October 7, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tips for buying case-labeling machinery

Case labeling is very different from primary labeling.

October 7, 2013

Secondary Packaging

Case erector/bag inserter

New servo case erector from OK International forms 21 cases/min and feeds them into the bag inserter that also comes from OK International. Bags are automatically cuffed over the edges.

October 7, 2013

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Band sealer for healthcare applications

Band sealer from OK International is for sealing of packages in the medical space. It has a wrinkle detection system that eliminates the risk of making a bad seal in a bag. All production is electronically monitored, so if the machine strays out of its validation parameter settings, there's no chance of a bag with a bad seal not being detected and rejected.

October 7, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

All-electric, servo-driven label applicators

Diagraph's all-electric, servo-driven label applicators allow users to apply labels on multiple panels and on multiple package types. According to the company, the all-electric system provides all the performance and throughput features of a pneumatic system, but with up to 50% less energy costs.

October 7, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

PAC board approves the PAC Food Waste initiative

PAC launches initiative to investigate the causes, identify opportunities for innovation, extend product shelf life, and inform and educate to the broader community on food waste.

October 7, 2013

Cartons and boxes

Campbell launches large particulates in aseptic cartons

Campbell Soup Co. has expanded its Liebig range in France with the addition of new products aseptically packaged.

October 7, 2013