Controls & Machine Components

Festo Corporation: Miniaturized valve terminals

Smart Cubic valve terminals from Festo offer compact size, versatility, and high speed and flow rates to 150L/min with various functions and LED readouts.

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Secondary Packaging

RJRT retrofits its future

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco modernizes case packers and robotic palletizers with updated controls.

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Controls & Machine Components

More Plug-and-Pack at Pack Expo Las Vegas

Machine builders and packagers buy into the Plug-and-Pack vision of "best practices" automation guidelines for maximum business benefit.

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Controls & Machine Components

Ink-jet coding goes wireless

Produce grower Mills, Inc., uses standard protocol 802.11b to wirelessly connect four large-character ink-jet printers to the PC that controls them.

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Secondary Packaging

Technology redesign incorporates servos

Package Machinery Company’s new servo-driven FA-ST overwrapping machine is equipped with six servo drives, giving it added flexibility and fewer maintenance issues compared to the machine it replaced.

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Controls & machine components

Vial packing extraordinaire (sidebar)

Filler is on the way

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Labeling

FDA not standing PAT

Food & Drug Administration hopes new cGMP initiative will open door to use of new drug packaging technology.

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Controls & Machine Components

Geraldi joins Gottscho

Charles Geraldi joined Adolph Gottscho as director of sales and marketing.

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Controls & Machine Components

Leeson Electric: Leeson Electric: Stainless-steel motors

Leeson Electric introduces its new line of stainless-steel motors designed for long life in demanding washdown applications. The Washguard® SST™ motors are equipped with oversized double-sealed bearings pre-lubricated with moisture- resistant, high-temperature grease, fully gasketed conduit box with flanged cover for tight sealing, internal bearing lock screws, and more.

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Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Data collection

Wago and Advanced Production Systems offer customers a method of linking business systems to the plant floor without programming. Real-time data can be sent directly from plant floor control devices to information systems such as ERP systems, databases, emails, printers, and serial devices.

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Conveying & accumulation

Tropicana Europe: Air conveying/filling/accumulating/labeling/tray packing on aseptic filling lin

At Tropicana Europe’s new plant in Zeebrugge, Belgium, PET bottles are air-conveyed from depalletization to a new aseptic line from Procomac Industries.

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Controls & Machine Components

New generation printer/applicator

Label-Aire offers the 3138-N printer applicator with advanced features such as automatic setup with multiple programmable label pages for easy changeovers, rate compensation for improved placement accuracy, and advanced user-configurable I/O connectivity.

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Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Power distribution box

Beckhoff offers its Power Distribution Box for its IP67 Fieldbus Box product. Box allows for distribution of power to several Fieldbus box I/O modules. Each Fieldbus box I/O module has 2 separate power connections located on the bottom of the module that ensure the sensitive intelligent electronics power is separated from the sensor power.

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