Emerson Drive Solutions: Powerful version of small servo motor

Emerson (Eden Prairie, MN) now offers its 2” NT motors in 3” frame sizes for low inertia but increased torque ratings of 30%. The motors can be supplied with MS connectors, flying leads, or flying leads with MS connectors.

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Yaskawa America, Inc. Launches New Energy Efficient Drive

FP605: A New AC Industrial Fan & Pump Drive Solution For All Environments

How SaaS and MaaS Impact Industry

From lowering barriers to entry to changing capex and opex strategies, software and machines as-a-service are changing the business of technology and manufacturing.

Process Controller

Honeywell’s C300PM process controller is designed to help industrial operations achieve a unified process control platform. It enables seamless technology integration for users seeking modern features while retaining a familiar hardware package.

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Compact Controllers

Emerson launches PACSystems™ RSTi-EP CPE 200 programmable automation controllers designed to help OEMs meet customer requirements by minimizing the need for specialized software engineering.

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OEM's Head-to-head Pneumatic vs. Servo Test Shows CPGs Savings

Stacking equipment manufacturer Forpak devised a test to see how incumbent pneumatic actuators stacked up against newer mechatronic servo technology, specifically on a frozen food stacking and laning application. These are the results.

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Cognex In-Sight 2800 | Machine Vision Made Simple

Cognex In-Sight 2800 vision system enables users of all skill levels to use the power of deep learning to automate error detection. See for yourself by entering for your chance to win one of five In-Sight 2800.

Security Alert for Industrial Control Systems

U.S. Government issues warning about new cyberthreats that impact control systems and SCADA devices across industries.

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CoreTigo Launches its North America Operations

Following its success in international industrial markets, CoreTigo expanded into the North America market with the opening of a USA-based entity and office, CoreTigo Inc., in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Bag Handling Suction Cup

Piab’s BGX suction cup is designed to handle flimsy and oversized bags used in applications such as e-commerce, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), secondary food picking, fashion, and more.

Digital Workflow Tools for Knowledge Transfer Across Operations

J.M. Smucker, Covestro, Pretium use digital workflows for factory, field workers.

Decentralized I/O

Festo’s CPX-AP-I decentralized I/O reduces wiring and shorten pneumatic tube runs, resulting in easier and faster installation of components and a clean, streamlined looking packaging line.

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How Intelligent Conveyance Tech Delivers Operational Flexibility

Rockwell Automation highlights its MagneMover Lite material handling technology designed to provide greater flexibility for assembly, filling, or packaging operations in a variety of industrial environments—from food and beverage to semiconductors.

Barcode Verifiers

Cognex offers the DataMan® 475V series of barcode verifiers designed to deliver 100% ISO-compliant code verification directly on or off production lines, providing detailed diagnostics for a variety of industrial barcode verification applications.

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Digital Transformation of the Industrial Workforce

The tools that help Pretium Packaging, Covestro, and J.M. Smucker Company tap into and transfer tribal knowledge on the factory floor.

The facility currently ships more than 200 million units annually across 200 product categories to hospitals, doctor’s offices, commercial pharmacies, and retail outlets nationwide.

Aurobindo Pharma USA Increases Distribution Throughput and Performance with New Automated Warehouse System

When the generic pharmaceutical giant wanted to automate its U.S. nerve center, it sought an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) that boosted storage capacity by 450% and increased order fulfillment efficiency.

Conventional retro-reflective photoelectric sensors often detect film-wrapped pallets unreliably. The reason for this is the depolarizing property of the tensioned film. Thanks to its special optics, the new Leuze 36 series retro-reflective photoelectric sensor masters this challenge without problem.

Everything In View

The new 36 sensor series from Leuze detects objects even at large operating ranges. Manufacturers and operators of highly automated systems benefit from the cost-optimized design of these sensors.

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Cellular Connectivity Solution for Remote Service

Videojet Technologies launches the Customer Independent Cellular Network (CICN), a connectivity solution for VideojetConnect™ Remote Service (VRS) and the easiest and fastest way to connect coding equipment to the Videojet cloud and enable VRS.

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Wireless Asset Monitoring

Regal Rexnord offers the Perceptiv™ Sentry S2100 platform for cost effective wireless vibration and temperature monitoring for industrial powertrain applications.

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PackML and Machine-to-Machine Communication

At PACK EXPO East 2022, Ron MacDonald of OMAC walked attendees through key states of PackML, highlighting their impact on successful packaging line operation.

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New Gefran Inclination Sensors from AutomationDirect

Gefran sensors use MEMS technology to provide precise tilt angle measurement.

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Amway was able to apply one control and information system, Rockwell Automation’s PlantPAx distributed control system, across all processes to improve capacity and product quality, save energy and raw materials, and reduce process variations and human intervention.

Amway’s Energy Drink Meets Skyrocketing Demand Through Digital Thread

The PlantPAX control system from Rockwell Automation is enabling greater operator efficiency, real-time troubleshooting, simplified data analysis, and increased manufacturing flexibility, among other improvements, through increased connectivity.

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Krones Combines its Digitalization Activities

Krones created Krones.digital bringing together all groupwide resources in the fields of digitalization and automation in order to adopt an overarching approach to developing solutions primarily for gathering, analyzing and utilizing production data.

Intelligent Solution for Safe Object Differentiation and Identification on Conveying Solutions and Packaging Machines

The deTec4 Smart Box Detection allows for safe and intelligent human-material differentiation for rectangular-conveyed objects.

The high volume of hops used to make Industrial Arts’ hazy IPA required some innovative thinking to optimize brewing.

Industrial Arts Brewing: The Art of Scaling Up a Hazy IPA

A young craft brewer in New York’s Hudson Valley was maxing out the capacity of its 25-hL brewhouse. A second, larger brewhouse from Krones Steinecker was highly customized to handle its hoppy brew.

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Top Trends in Pharma Industry Today

Manufacturers are rethinking production and packaging strategies as the industry shifts to new formats such as customized medicines and injectables, but other trends are affecting production as well.

JLS designed and manufactured this carton handling system for high-speed, low-noise operation.

iCam-Based Linear Pick-and-Place Mechanism Maintains Control of Empty Cartons

Transferring empty cartons from a high-speed forming machine into a smart carton identification and loading system helps to maintain control of the lightweight boxes prior to use.

PACK EXPO Innovations Report: Controls and Automation

PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the controls and automation categories.

IIoT-Enabling Controller

Banner Engineering’s DXMR90 industrial controller is designed to process incoming signals from equipment including sensors attached to machinery.

Photoelectric Sensors

AutomationDirect’s Contrinex metal M12 and M18 photoelectric sensors feature IO-Link compatibility, are IP67 rated, and available in diffuse, diffuse with adjustable background suppression, retroreflective, and through-beam models.

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Report: Innovative New Controls at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the controls category.

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Leading IoT Vendors Commit to OPC UA Adoption

Major IoT vendors including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and SIEMENS leverage secure, standardized information exchange in edge-to-cloud applications based on OPC UA.