Controls & Machine Components

Redesign sets the stage for mic brand's heritage story

Shure’s SM 57 Instrument Microphone has been used on every president’s lectern since Lyndon Johnson, and the company’s SM 58 Vocal Microphone is a mainstay among touring musicians.

April 5, 2009

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Actuator

Siko’s AG03 Actuator is a space-saving, easy-to-mount actuator with an integrated sensor unit, control electronics and hollow shaft principle.

April 4, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Packaging automation users tell stories

End-user attendees at this year’s Packaging Automation Forum learned from their peers about the advantages, as well as potential pitfalls, of today’s packaging automation technologies.

April 3, 2009

Controls & machine components

New checkweigher enhances co-pack QC

Request Foods adds world's first model to its tray-packing operations.

April 1, 2009

Case/tray packing

First ARC Forum to address packaging innovation

For the first time, the ARC Automation Forum devoted an entire track to packaging machinery.

March 30, 2009

Secondary Packaging

18 servo modules power Douglas case/tray packer

Remember when a case packer might have three or four servos?  How about 18 servos doing everything from infeeds to case sealing, squaring and compression?

March 2, 2009

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Integrated motor/drive and advanced pneumatics drive machine benefits

F/f/s machine occupies minimal floor space and uses servo-driven belts instead of shaft-driven chains to pull material through smoothly.

March 1, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Data, data, everywhere

Like most Irishmen of her generation, my grandma had countless snatches of poetry tucked away that she’d unleash on us kids if she felt the occasion called for it.

March 1, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Hitachi America, Ltd.: High-performance AC drives

The SJ700 Series of inverters from the Industrial Systems Div. of Hitachi America Ltd. expands on the performance, capabilities, and functions of its predecessor, the SJ300.

March 1, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Packagers seek progress through machine standards

From Procter & Gamble to Frito-Lay to the pharmaceutical sector, packagers are pinning their hopes on broader acceptance of common programming structures.

March 1, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Thoughts on data collection

The ability to collect data from the packaging line and use it in a meaningful way is one trend that is only beginning to pick up steam. Just ask Wyeth's Kevin Constable.

February 19, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Griffin-Rutgers' Codajet 1000 ink jet printer prints simultaneously on two sides of carton and top

The Codajet 1000 is a low-cost, ink efficient, compact printer that allows users to control 4 print heads from one controller.

February 9, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID smart boxes

The idea of an RFID-enabled “smart box” has been tested by several vendors of corrugated materials, including Domino Integrated Solutions Group (DISG, www.domino-isg.com) with its award-winning HIDE-Pack™ smart box.

February 1, 2009