Controls & Machine Components

Motors provide more torque in a compact package

Oriental Motor USA's K2 Series offers motors from 6 to 90 watts, with gear ratios from 3:1 up to 350:1. Find out how they get more power for the frame size to handle more load, more quietly and with new, more flexible mounting options.

October 11, 2013

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Controls & Machine Components

It's time to put packaging machinery control specifications on a diet

Electrical specs tried very hard for years to maintain the sanity of plant technicians by defining everything right down to wire color.

October 11, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Robotic boxers demonstrate controls products

An engaging demo at the Kollmorgen booth used two robotic pugilists to showcase Kolmorgen actuators, motors, drives, and other controls components the company offers.

October 10, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Custom machine parts configured for your application in one to six days.

Misumi U.S.A. is a global manufacturer of mechanical components that go into automation equipment. Timing belts, pulleys, rotating fins, etc. Configure and change dimensions for your custom project designing and building machinery serving pharmaceutical, medical, packaging, automotive markets, etc.

October 10, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Emerson Industrial: Engineering software for conveyors

New SPEC™ engineering software for chain and modular belt conveyor applications determines viability and can recommend alternative optimal solutions.

October 10, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

TURCK: Stainless steel junction box

With the ability to consolidate up to eight individual, localized analog or discrete signals into a single device, this junction box streamlines connectivity requirements.

October 9, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Wago: Current transformer disconnect terminal blocks

Wago Corporation's new 2007 Series TOPJOBS current transformer disconnect terminal blocks simplify current transformer testing, and increase safety within power monitoring applications with an intuitive orange three-position (Operating, Shorting and Measuring) disconnect lever.

October 9, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Parsec: Updated MOM software

The latest version of Parsec Automation’s TrakSYS Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software – 8 R2 – provides a highly-integrated application that helps manufacturers to significantly improve asset utilization and efficiency, increase capacity of the current capital equipment, reduce production costs, decrease lead time, and improve profitability.

October 9, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Air-to-air heat exchangers

Available in 120VAC and 24 VDC models, AutomationDirect’s Stratus line now includes air-to-air heat exchangers – a closed-loop cooling system that employs the heat pipe principle to exchange heat from an electrical enclosure to the outside.

October 9, 2013

Controls & machine components

Vision hardware and software targets packaging and processing

Iris GT smart camera from Matrox, in an application designed by integrator Inventek Engineering, combines with Matrox' Design Assistant (DA) 3.0 smart camera software to inspect bottles presented by a robot. The Iris GT smart camera line lets users easily create their application's flowchart and HMI, and take projects from concept to completion in record time.

October 8, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Open automation solutions will change the packaging industry

PC-based control technology from Beckhoff can control and monitor individual packaging machines to complete packaging lines. Beckhoff industrial PCs and the TwinCAT automation software can be used to manage a wide range of packaging functions such as filling, forming, sealing, labelling, collecting, re-packing and palletising.

October 8, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

New drive technologies save energy & wiring, and runs more efficiently

SEW Eurodrive USA demonstrates new drive technology on working bottling line on the Pack Expo 2013 show floor that saves energy and wiring, and helps conveyors run more efficiently under varying speeds and loads.

October 7, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Multi-touch HMI/SCADA housed in industrial PCs and monitors

This video gives you two great solutions, hardware and software, in one! InduSoft demonstrates the multi-touch capabilities of its HMI/SCADA software housed in industrial PCs and monitors from partner Beckhoff Automation.

October 7, 2013