Controls & Machine Components

Bodine Electric Company: Gearmotors

The next generation of Bodine’s type E and F gearmotors, the 42A5-FX is a completely redesigned permanent magnet DC (PMDC) parallel shaft gearmotor that provides up to 40% more torque than previous E/F models.

February 18, 2013

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 892

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Multi-wire connectors

Designed to maintain reliable electrical connections while providing protection against dirt, moisture and mechanical stress, AutomationDirect’s expanded line of its ZIPport multi-wire connectors and accessories now includes 10A, 16A, and 32B connector sizes, in addition to 3A, 6B, 10B, 16B, and 24B sizes.

February 18, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Heidenhain Corp.: Encoder for robotics, small-footprint servos

The Heidenhain EBI 1135 absolute inductive rotary encoder provides multi-turn ability in a very small package with an overall length of less than 13mm, and a 37mm O.D.

February 18, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Single-axis drive operates pumps, fans, compressors

Siemens’ new single-axis Sinamics V20 drive for basic applications comes in four frame sizes covering the performance range from 1/6–20hp and is used to operate pumps, fans, compressors and conveyor systems, and features short commissioning times, easy operation, and cost and energy benefits.

February 18, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electric Automation: Software tools for robots

Mitsubishi has integrated RT Toolbox2 into its MELSOFT iQ Works software platform and has added robots to the MELSOFT Navigator environment to allow programming, maintaining, retrofitting, and monitoring of Mitsubishi Electric robots ─ along with PLCs, HMIs, servos and motion controllers ─ from the same platform.

February 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

Serialization and track and trace

Pharmapack workshop on serialization reinforces challenges, draws some distinctions between Europe and the U.S.

February 15, 2013

Cartoning

Aenova partners with packaging supplier to address global pharmaceutical market changes

Restructured international pharmaceutical markets demand new manufacturing strategies. To ensure efficient packaging processes, Aenova and Romaco take a fresh approach.

February 15, 2013

Containers

'Cans Get You Cooking' promotes canned foods’ benefits

Can Manufacturers Institute partners with major brands and retailers to drive center-of-store sales nationwide.

February 14, 2013

Flexibles

Seed mix entices in new windowed bag

A new package design for 20-lb bags of food-plot seed for deer allows for gravure-printed graphics across the entire bag, as well as a see-through window insert.

February 13, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

SusFoFlex Consortium holds first technical meeting

European-based consortium has been organized to develop novel, sustainable, and intelligent packaging technologies to enhance shelf life and ultimately reduce food waste.

February 13, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Balluff: MAC valve mainifold control

Simplify valve manifold control using Distributed Modular I/O.

February 13, 2013

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Desiccated blister packaging

Desiccated blister packaging protects moisture and oxygen-sensitive solid dose pharmaceuticals for better product performance.

February 13, 2013

Containers

One-way PET kegs

Lightweight Containers launched the first member of a new generation of KeyKegs: the cylindrical KeyKeg20.

February 13, 2013