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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

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Cardinal Health:

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

February 29, 2004

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Printheads

FoxJet offers the new 768 ProSeries printhead that prints to a height of 4” without the “stitching” that often occurs when a series of smaller, disposable heads are linked together.

February 29, 2004

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Motion control catalog

Norgren published a new, consolidated catalog called “Motion Control Solutions, part number APC-1”. The full-color catalog will guide consumers through Norgren’s pneumatic products: actuators, valves, pressure sensing and control, air preparation, fittings, KIP, Herion, and Watson-Smith lines.

February 29, 2004

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Rockwell Automation: Washdown AC drive

The Allen-Bradley® PowerFlex® 70 NEMA 4X AC drive from Rockwell Automation features a UL-listed and IP66-rated enclosure that protects against high-pressure water spray, corrosion, and cir-culating dust while conforming to National Sanitation Foundation standards for food equipment.

February 29, 2004

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Wago Corporation: Smallest I/O-IPC

The WAGO-I/O-IPC 758 Series Industrial PC from Wago Corp. integrates all standard PC functions including network and fieldbus interfaces. The 266 MHz Pentium-processor-powered unit with Linux or Microsoft Windows-based operating system permits decentralized control, subnetworking with popular fieldbuses, as well as recording, analyzing, and measuring data.

February 29, 2004