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Beckhoff highlights XPlanar’s no contamination through contract-free and wear-free movement.

Beckhoff Highlights Futuristic Materials Handling and Software Updates

From additional hygienic and washdown capabilities in its XPlanar and XTS technologies to new TwinCAT integration packages and I/O safety features, Beckhoff Automation brings an array of cutting-edge automation products to PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

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Bosch Rexroth’s CtrlX Store Brings 'Smartphone Principle' to Industrial IT

The new marketplace allows turnkey applications to be installed on any CtrlX CORE unit.

Carlo Gavazzi Exhibits Solid State Relays, IO-Link Sensors

The products can be used in a variety of industries including packaging, mining, food and beverage, and more.

Nord Gear’s Nordac On and On+ VFDs feature plug-and-play capability for ease of internet-based networking and feature integrated industrial Ethernet interfaces that are switchable for use with Profinet, EtherCAT, and EtherNet/IP.

Nord Gear Introduces New Drive and Motor Systems

The forthcoming DuoDrive integrated geared motor and Nordac On and On+ drive systems are designed for intralogistics as well as food and pharmaceutical industry production applications.

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Automating Drive Optimization

Lenze introduces auto-tuning, a fast and easy way to optimize the control loop in a drive during commissioning.

Oriental Motors Showcases Alphastep Hybrid Control System

The unique positioning system uses a fusion of open- and closed-loop control.

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Rockwell Showcases FactoryTalk Software, Unified Robot Control

IT/OT convergence and digital transformation are the topics dominating Rockwell’s booth this year.

Festo’s SMS combines pneumatics with electric automation for use in positioning, indexing, clamping, feeding, and cut-to-length tasks.

Festo Bridges Pneumatics and Servo Motion

The company’s new Simplified Motion Series adds IO-Link connectivity to make positioning, indexing, clamping, feeding, and cut-to-length tasks more cost effective than traditional all-servo motion systems.

This screen save shows how customers using Llumin software can know the status of specific pieces of equipment in real time no matter where they are located.

CMMS Specifically for OEMs

Exhibiting for the first time at PACK EXPO, Llumin, an established participant in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) space, introduced a new software called Llumin for OEMs.

The Varioline packaging system works with ten robots, distributed among four modules, which enables the machine to handle a total of 18 different packaging variants.

Mastering Complex Production Sequences

This middle-tier German beer producer offers some 25 varieties of beer in returnable glass bottles, so it needed a highly versatile and automated controls architecture.

XTS greatly reduces jams and downtime as it moves perfectly stacked pizzas into cases. Shown here is a freshly erected case on the right and two stacks of pizzas about to be pushed into the case on the left.

Flexibility, High Throughput on Pizza Case Packer

The M2000 case packer does the work of three machines, erases downtime and excess mechanical parts, and delivers big on flexibility and throughput.

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Beverage Manufacturing: Machines Needed for a Smarter Plant Floor

With 67% of beverage manufacturers planning to eventually add additional packaging equipment to their operations, flexibility is the key element that is needed in new machinery.

Prior to the MGS assembly module, bulk actuators are dumped into a hopper; a centrifugal bowl is utilized to singulate and orient them.

Metered Dose Inhaler Line Centralizes Control from Canisters Through Pallets

A deep dive into a “one machine” concept for a metered dose inhaler line, with system integration for 18 pieces of machinery and components from a variety of OEMs.

Pellets of ice move down the central “pant leg” and arrive on left and right electromagnetic vibratory feeders for discharge into insulated containers.

Dry Ice Feeding for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Equipment for dispensing dry ice into insulated containers holding COVID-19 vaccines had to be designed and produced by this OEM in just eight weeks.

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Beverage Manufacturers Turn to Dynamic Machines and Automation to Meet SKU Expansion

Manufacturers are being pressed on all fronts to expand offerings in the beverage market, and they are turning to OEMs and suppliers to offer solutions at all points in the manufacturing process.

Colgate-Palmolive products range from personal and home care items to pet food.

Colgate-Palmolive Focuses on Machine Health to Improve Supply Chain Operations

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the connection between production operations and the supply chain. In response, Colgate-Palmolive is connecting asset health and the supply chain to free up capital for strategic growth.

The M302L, an in-line twin-auger filling system, elevates the container with each fill cycle and then vibrates it on its way down so that product can settle.

Motion Control Synchronizes Auger Filling

Servo-driven auger fillers made by AS&E rely on an advanced motion control platform to synchronize three critical operating parameters, greatly improving accuracy.

OEMs should keep cybersecurity top of mind in their business, carefully monitor their own products in the market to ensure their ongoing security, and strictly regulate the devices they use for external work.

OEMs Play Larger Role in Manufacturing Industry Cybersecurity

Since OEMs also serve manufacturing clients who are themselves vulnerable to cyberattack, there are a few extra considerations to be aware of with regard to cybersecurity.

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