Augmented Reality Speeds Machine Troubleshooting

Emerson’s new Augmented Reality option runs on its Movicon SCADA platform and allows operators to control equipment through an iPad or AR device and gather metrics on the machinery.

Melissa GriffenEditor-in-Chief, Contract Manufacturing & Packaging

Sep 29th, 2021

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Servo Drive System

Siemens’ Sinamics S210 drive system with Simotics S-1FK2 servomotors and Simatic S7-1500 controllers is designed for a variety of motion control applications.

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.

Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste

Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste

Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.

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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.

Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste

Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste

Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.

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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

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Nord Motors Provide Additional Strength, Stability, and Cooling Advantages

Eliminate need for NPT adapters

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.

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Overload Safety Devices

Zero-Max’s Torq-Tender® and H-TLC overload safety devices protect motor and drive systems from overload while offering options to withstand corrosive environments and necessary washdowns.

ei3 Completes Acquisition of Cognitive Solutions and Innovation AG

ei3, an IIoT solution provider, completed the acquisition of Cognitive Solutions and Innovation AG (COGSI AG) of Zurich. COGSI will assume the ei3 brand and is being re-branded as ei3 Europe.

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NORD DRIVESYSTEMS Expands Power Range with New Frame Sizes of NORDAC PRO Variable Frequency Drives

The NORDAC PRO SK 500P variable frequency drive family welcomes two additional frame sizes to offer even greater performance, precision, and range of functionality.

When is a Retrofit Appropriate for Packaging Machinery?

Retrofits of existing packaging machinery can result in substantial cost savings, and enable an incremental approach to Industry 4.0 initiatives. But they may not always be the right choice.

Unilogo Robotics’ Cleanline packaging system targets liquid product CPGs in industries like cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and household cleaners and chemicals.

Linear Servo Track System Allows Production-on-Demand for Liquid Filling

With the help of a track system from B&R, this Polish OEM is building machines that make it practical for liquid products CPGs, like cosmetics or pharma companies, to plan for short and specialized product runs.