Controls & Machine Components

Linear motor cuts TCO on packaging machines

From Linmot comes a linear servo motor that is especially suitable for packaging machinery manufacturers working to combine linear and rotary motion.

December 4, 2012

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Nestlé demonstrates power of OMAC

Nestlé showed how standards like PackML increase the productivity and innovation of packaging lines.

December 4, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.: Hypoid gearmotor

Bison Gear’s PowerSTAR, a new hypoid, maximum efficiency, right-angle gearmotor, uses the company's Robusticity design to improve energy efficiency for a smaller carbon footprint and maximum power density.

December 4, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Seidenader innovates with serialization

Thought you needed two or three computers to perform serialization functions on a packaging line? Seidenader, a subsidiary of Koerber Medipak, has teamed with B&R Industrial Automation to implement its serialization software on a single industrial hardened PC and touch panel with integrated soft PLC, I/O, vision interface capabilities and global support.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Dividella pharma cartoner runs 80 to 240 cartons per minute

Using a hundred servo axes, the reconfigurable, GMP design, modular Dividella cartoner from Koerber Medipak provides rapid changeover, recipe management, data access, detailed diagnostics, and simplified parameterization instead of programming, all from a graphical HMI. The control system from B&R features a unified software and hardware platform and is housed underneath the machine frame, minimizing footprint. Interfaces for vision and coding systems simplify integration.

December 3, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Advanced packaging technologies highlight the show

At a sold-out PACK EXPO show in Chicago, automated packaging technologies were definitely the star of the show, as the video reports in this issue of Automation Strategies attest.

December 3, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Pack Expo 2012: Motion Control Options for Machine Builders

The Simotion family comes in three form factors: Simotion D, drive-based package; Simotion P, micro-box option; and a PLC unit. (Approximate Time - 1:52)

November 30, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Speedy shipment of pneumatic and electronic valves, cylinders, more

Clippard Instrument Laboratory now offers same-day shipping (on orders received by 2:30 p.m.) of hundreds of items. The company manufactures miniature pneumatic and electronic valves; brass, stainless, and corrosion-resistant cylinders; modular components and fittings; and more.

November 27, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Mechatronics optimizes machine performance

Lenze focused its Pack Expo message on how an emphasis on mechatronics results in drives, motors, and gear boxes that let machinery OEMs keep machine performance at a high level while footprint is minimized.

November 24, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Replacing pneumatics with servos can improve motion control

Contributing Editor James R. Koelsch of Automation World recently published a story about packaging machinery that relies on servos as a substitute for pneumatics. I re-post it here in the hope that you find it as intriguing as I did.

November 20, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Take a quick virtual booth tour

See the latest in packaging automation technology from B&R Industrial Automation, all in just 3 1/2 minutes.

November 19, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

High flex silicone cables

Cicoil’s highly flexible silicone jacketed cables are designed to provide uninterrupted service and absolute reliability for clean room robots.

November 15, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electric Automation: Energy monitoring and control solution

Pre-wired for easy implementation, Mitsubishi’s EnergyPAQ is an energy monitoring and control solution that can help lower utility bills, reduce energy consumption, and meet energy compliance standards.

November 15, 2012