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Cartoning

Strong presence for ELAU at Interpack

One automation supplier, ELAU, was the buzz of the 2005 Interpack show

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OPC plug-and-play vision

A new PC-based OPC server designed to work with DVT’s Legend series of smart camera-based machine vision systems eliminates custom interfaces and drivers.

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High-end industrial PC

The APC680 industrial PC is for demanding controller and visualization tasks, with a modular construction that can be adapted to an application’s requirements.

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Conveying & accumulation

Six Innovative Products

High-precision bus terminalThe KL3356 analog input bus terminal provides a measurement accuracy of 0.01% for direct connection of resistor bridges, strain gauge sensors, and all common input signals.

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Ethernet Alters Vision Technology

Some observers say that the large volumes of data generated by vision systems were an important factor in getting some large facilities to bring Ethernet into the factory.

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Cost Concerns for Vision

Ease-of-use is a big factor for those who are integrating vision equipment, but cost is also a driving factor. Systems today can go for as little as $1귔, representing a substantial decline from the recent past.

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Tamper-evident machinery

Simplicity Brightens Vision's Future

Vision processing is a difficult task requiring many calculations that must be done in real time or close to it. But in the past few years, microprocessors and digital signal processors reached performance levels that make it possible to process complex algorithms in the available time.

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Filling/capping, dry

Arla Foods' Quest for "B2M" Integration

Arla Foods, the Danish dairy giant with annual sales of US$7 billion and global production facilities, is integrating high-level business information with its plant-floor information systems. The end result is impressive.

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How the Cheese Slices

Cougar Automation Technologies’ customer, a large manufacturer of processed cheese, had both a plant-floor problem and a “back-office” problem.

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Brewing Up Standards

Even though bringing standards together in an enterprise-wide solution is very new, there are companies that are now reaping the benefits.

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Promises, Promises, What's in it for me?

To many process engineers, packaging equipment can look like something from another planet. Often the controls part of a machine can be rudimentary in their view, and troubleshooting machines from many suppliers can be a headache to figure out.

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Flow wrapping

PFM's new pharma-configured flow packer

PFM introduces a pharmaceutical flow packing with robotic infeed and vision capabilities

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