Controls & Machine Components

OMAC/WBF working session

Two leading manufacturing industry organizations—World Batch Forum and Open Modular Architecture Controls Users Group—will hold their first working session May 19 as part of their effort to coordinate their development of manufacturing standards for machine and batch control.

March 31, 2004

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Krones, Inc: Krones, Inc: Monitoring software

Krones has developed a new generation of software systems for monitoring technology. Called Distributed Architecture for Real Time (DART), the software provides an alternative to PLCs when they are not feasible due to economics or space constraints.

March 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Generator brochure

Baldor offers a new 18-page, 4-color brochure highlighting its generator capabilities. Literature describes the following types of Baldor generators: Portables (1 to 11kW); Towables (20 to 200kW); Automatic Energy (8 to 25kW); and Prime Power, Emergency Standby and Peak Shaving (20 to 200kW).

March 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Omron Electronics LLC: Safety relay

Omron’s forcibly guided G7S-E safety relay is developed for applications where safety is a major concern, such as for conveyors, packaging lines, and injection molding and extruding equipment.

March 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Companies

DT Packaging Systems, comprising the Lakso, Merrill, Kalish, Swiftpack, and King brands of packaging machinery, will now be called Nova Packaging Systems.

March 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC loses funding for executive director position

Keith Campbell is no longer the executive director of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup as the Louisiana Center for Manufacturing Science has found itself unable to continue funding his position.

March 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Cardinal Health:

Due to technical difficulties, the video on Cardinal Health is unavailable.

February 29, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Quick connection for field devices

Phoenix Contact’s Quickon-One is a 2-piece, screwless connection system that uses integrated industrialized IDC contacts. It provides a gas-tight connection in 30 sec and eliminates the potential for lost screws on stray copper strands during the assembly process.

February 29, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Leeson Electric: Aluminum gear reducer

Leeson Electric aluminum gear reducers offer lightweight and compact construction, lower purchase and shipping costs, and extreme mounting flexibility.

February 29, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Pneumatics: Bosch Rexroth Pneumatics: Pneumatics diagnostics and integration

The new Drive and Diagnostic Link (DDL) from Bosch Rexroth’s Pneumatics Div. makes it possible for pneumatics to be fully integrated across the overall control system on a packaging machine.

February 29, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

P&G's Holmes talks to Automation World

Skip Holmes’s thoughts on leadership, best practices, technology development, business language, and licensing partners—all are covered in an exclusive interview in the June issue of Automation World.

February 29, 2004

Controls & machine components

Compact vision system

The NI CVS-1455 compact vision system from National Instruments is said to deliver nearly twice the processing power and 4 times the storage capacity of the NI CVS-1454 system released in July.

February 29, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

PackSoft and PLCopen to cooperate

Gerd Hoppe, chair of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup’s PackSoft Team, says that PLCopen has agreed to permit the PackSoft team to build on results already achieved by PLCopen.

February 29, 2004