Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: DC motor/speed control

Oriental Motor USA Corp. (Torrance, CA) introduces the AXU Series of high-performance brushless DC speed control systems. Compact systems, comprised of a BLDC motor and a speed control unit, provide energy efficient speed control in 10W, 25W, 40W, and 90W output power levels.

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Large-character, ink-jet printer

Diagraph offers the IJ 3000 Impulse Jet large character ink jet printer. The product will be shown at EastPack 2003, from June 2-4 in New York, at the company’s booth #731.

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ISA conference now FREE!

Sold-out OMAC pavilion allows ISA to offer free admission to June technical conference for all.

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PLCs and motion not enough?

Survey: packagers want new class of control.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Full-color label printer

The QuickLabel Systems Div. of Astro-Med introduces its full-color, digital label, tag, sign, and pouch printer for in-house use.

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Integrating processing and packaging

The integration between process and packaging automation in food, beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturing is on the rise.

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Vertical form/fill/seal

The economical Flash 250 series of vf/f/s systems from PMB-UVA (Richmond, VA) provides single-axis servo drive, and speeds to 120 packs/min. Made of stainless steel, the equipment can produce pillow and flat-bottom, side-gusseted bags for food and non-food applications.

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Secondary Packaging

Columbia/Okura: Training facility

Columbia/Okura (Vancouver, WA) has built a state-of-the-art facility designated specifically for testing, training, and palletizing demonstrations.

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The Electric Drives and Controls Div. of Bosch Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) now supports the PackML state model via a software module. Developed in close cooperation with the OMAC for Packaging Workgroup, this software module is designed to reduce commissioning time and present a single interface to operators of various packaging machinery.

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Saint-Gobain: Rotary seals catalog

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (Wayne, NJ) completed a comprehensive catalog that describes the complete line of OmniLip™ PTFE-based rotary shaft seals.

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Web Plus: Keeping engineers in the loop

Designed for engineers who need up-to-date specifications and technical information on electric motors, drives, generators, motion-control products, and gear products, the ProSpec Web site from Baldor (www.baldorprospec.com) provides information to help educate and develop relationships with specifying and consulting engineers.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Companies

Morrison Timing Screw (Glenwood, IL) modernized its 15-year-old logo.

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Flexible packaging

Pouch maker makes progress with PLS

New PLS plug-in module offers easier programming, less wiring, and less hardware for hf/f/s manufacturer.

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