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Secondary Packaging

Controls integration can boost supply chain efficiencies

In researching a March Packaging World story about how controls integration and information technologies can improve supply chain efficiencies, I wound up gathering more information than I could fit in the designated space.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Danaher Motion: Danaher Motion: Microstepping drive

Danaher Motion introduces its Pacific Scientific P7000 Series microstepping drives that provide servo-like performance at a lower cost than conventional servo drives, company says. Drive offers Encoderless Stall Detection™, down to and including rest, without the use of a separate feedback device.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Interface converter

Rockwell Automation offers the new Universal Serial Bus (USB)-to-DH-485 interface converter that can enhance PLC-to-PC connectivity. Converter allows computers with USB ports to connect to DH-485 ports located on SLC 500, MicroLogix, and ControlLogix controllers, as well as PanelView terminals or 1747-AIC and 1761-NET-AIC isolators.

January 31, 2004

Controls & machine components

Cognex to host free seminars

Cognex Corp. will host a series of free machine vision seminars called Understanding and Applying Machine Vision Sensors.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

A glimpse into global beverage applications

Wondering what’s going on around the globe when it comes to beverage packaging? A look at a recent elotalk newsletter yields some insights, though it’s important to note that these insights and applications are through the lens of supplier Elopak.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Mobile part storage fights for U.S. Marines

Behind the scenes in the war in Iraq, the United States Marine Corps has been supplied in part by container carousel storage systems from FKI Logistex White Systems.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Ingenious integration

An integrated printing system helps this case erector manufacturer reduce machine cost, better meet floor space requirements, and lower maintenance expense.

January 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

New drive family

The ACS 800 Family of drives from ABB are said to be 50% smaller than the company’s previous drives of equal HP. The units range from 6.5” wide for low-HP designs to freestanding 600-HP units that measure 13.78” wide to fit into deep, narrow spaces or wide, shallow spaces.

December 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Poore: Weigh scales for salty snacks

Cross-feeder conveyors deliver snacks to Ishida 14-head weigh scales from Heat and Control. Individual load cells measure the weight of product in the scales. Integrated controls are used to select the right combination of buckets to release an accurate amount of product into a bottom-sealed tube of film.

December 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Siemens says integrated safety yields benefits for machine builders

For years,emergency stops (e-stops in shop-floor parlance) on packaging machines have had to be hardwired independently of any network to comply with government safety requirements.

December 31, 2003

Filling/capping, dry

OMAC releases PackTags 2.0 for comment

In late December, the OMAC Packaging Workgroup released the PackTags 2.0 specification for public comment at http://www.packml.org.

December 31, 2003

Cartoning

Machine builder case study: Gen3 vs Gen2 machinery

Norden Pac, a maker of tube-filling and cartoning equipment, recently delivered its first Gen3 servo-driven tube-filling machine to a customer.

December 31, 2003