Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Linear/rotary actuator packages

Four new linear/rotary actuator packages (EZA, EZCII, PWAII & SPV) from Oriental Motor are designed for greater ease of use and higher performance in positioning applications, and feature the Alpha-Step stepping motor with built-in closed loop performance.

September 21, 2010

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Siemens Industry Inc: Controller

The new Simatic® CPU 317TF-2DP controller from Siemens combines motion control, safety and standard tasks in a single device to integrate and combine devices for the plant floor environment, reducing footprints and improving efficiencies.

September 21, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Omega Design advances the performance and value of bottle handling

New designs, controls and fabrication techniques add value to Omega's lineup of bottle unscramblers, desiccant feeders, shrinkbundlers and track-and-trace solutions.

September 21, 2010

Contract packaging

Modular Packaging Systems standardizes on B&R for controls

Solid dose pharmaceutical packaging specialist selects B&R Industrial Automation based on high speed performance, packaging line integration requirements and local support.

September 13, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Automation suppliers target processing and packaging

Need a reminder of how increasingly intertwined processing and packaging have become?

September 13, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Best-in-class manufacturing ops

At Heineken South Africa and Microsoft Europe, efficiency-minded suppliers help make processing and packaging logical extensions of each other.

September 13, 2010

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Industry watch

September 9, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Case packer is 'sophisticated' yet rugged

Case packer is ‘sophisticated’ yet rugged Machine uses best-in-class controls technology to achieve throughput of 35 cases/min. IP67 rating ensures reliability despite rugged wash downs.

September 9, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc: Electronic valves

Clippard’s EW Series of electronic valves features wire leads out of the top of the valve, and is available in 2-way or 3-way, Normally-Closed or fully-ported.

September 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

TURCK, Inc: Adapters

Turck’s M12 adapters may be used to connect incompatible round connectors quickly and easily.

September 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: AC drives

Omron announces safety certification for 3G3MX2 AC drives--open loop control drives with built-in safety inputs and external device monitoring output.

September 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Pluggable terminal block connectors

Wago’s 2020 and 2022 Series X-COM S Pluggable Connector Systems combine touchproof, pre-wired assemblies with TOPJOB S terminal blocks.

September 8, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Campbell Wrapper Corporation: Horizontal flow wrapper

Campbell Wrapper Corporation’s full servo driven On-Edge Revolution Horizontal Flow Wrapper features a sanitary modular design with a cantilevered tube forming section that allows debris to fall away from internal drive components while providing an attractive wrap for a variety of products including cookies, crackers, frozen hash browns and frozen meat patties at speeds ranging from 50 - 150 packages/min.

September 8, 2010