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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Rotary packaging system

The ergonomically sensitive Algus Universal 8 (U8) Packaging System is engineered to allow for in-plant reconfiguration allowing for different packaging formats, from simple face seal packs to complex club store packs.

February 1, 2009

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February 1, 2009

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Booksize compact drive

Siemens Sinamics S120 Booksize Compact muti-axis drive delivers high overload capability in tight machine spaces.

January 31, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Industrial automation product catalog

Omron Electronics’ 2008/09 Industrial Automation Product Catalog for North America contains 800 pages with more than 4,800 products, including hundreds of new items.

January 31, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Manifolds

Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc. introduces a new series of sub-miniature manifolds for the 10 mm and 15 mm solenoid valves.

January 31, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Balluff: Rotary encoder

Balluff’s BML S2E rotary encoder provides positional information for conveyors, speed control, rotational applications and angle measurement.

January 31, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Controller

Rockwell Automation’s Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1400 controller provides end users and OEMs with a higher I/O count, faster high-speed counter and pulse train output (PTO), and improved network capabilities.

January 31, 2009

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Data acquisition a good fit at vertically integrated water bottler

Packaging line analysis is never so important as it is in a rotten economy. That's when every ounce of efficiency must be wrung out of a packaging line just to keep Chapter 11 at bay.

January 28, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Track-and-trace functionality automated by Multivac in an advanced packaging system

A video from Multivac highlights a state-of-the-art system that offers the advantages of end-to-end automation, including robotics. The control system provides the documentation for track-and-trace requirements.

January 14, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Building better vacuum

A new breed of suction cups and a more efficient vacuum delivery system let this OEM build a better case packer.

January 8, 2009

Cartoning

Barilla's checkweigher checklist

The combination of Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed checkweighing and Safeline metal detection has been part of Barilla’s success story since its first U.S. plant opened in 1996 in Ames, IA.

January 8, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Costco snack pack operations

Costco’s in-house production for tubed snacks relies on three f/f/s units and four pick-and-place robots to produce a 24-count variety pack.

January 7, 2009