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Controls & Machine Components

Wake up and smell the standards!

Attention packaging machine buyers. Take this quick quiz: Are you fed up with trying to maintain increasingly computerized packaging equipment, networks, and plants?

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: AC motors brochure

Rockwell Automation (Greenville, SC) has published a brochure describing Reliance® variable speed AC motors. Brochure features 1/3 to 2귔 hp inverter-duty motors.

October 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Labeler proves 'berry, berry' good for Fabri-Kal

A new clamshell labeling system increases speed while reducing labor costs and downtime at the Greenville, SC, plant of thermoformer Fabri-Kal.

October 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Brushless motion system literature

Oriental Motor (Torrance, CA) has published a catalog describing the BX Series of compact, DC brushless speed-control systems that provide a 100:1 speed range from 30 to 3ꯠ rpm.

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motors and drives catalog

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) has released Version 7.0 of its interactive electronic catalog on CD-ROM. Users are able to access instantly a wide variety of technical information on more than 6귔 different Baldor motors and drives.

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC posts packaging guidelines

The OMAC Motion for Packaging working group carried out its scheduled meeting at Pack Expo Las Vegas on September 11, with more than 70 people attending.

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Flexo Rotary printer

The Flexpress 16 S/10 from Fischer and Krecke (Bielefeld, Germany) steplessly prints all materials in any print repeat between 320 and 1020 mm (12.61 and 40.19”) and in print widths of 1050 to 1650 mm (41.47 to 65.01”).

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Multi-use servo drive

The “all-in-one” Lexium™ servo drive from Schneider (North Andover, MA) can be used as a smart analog amplifier, a stepper translator, a SERCOS servo drive, or a stand-alone motion controller.

September 30, 2001

Flexible packaging

Four-side-sealer homers for Clean Team

Clean Team, a San Diego maker of cleaning card products, speeds changeovers and lowers labor costs with an automated sealer. Pitched area allows for easy filling of liquid cleaning solution into the package.

September 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Three legs are better than one

Glass bottles of Rolling Rock beer run through paired fillers at 1길/min and then fan out to any one of three packaging legs. Eight operators ‘patrol’ the entire line. See in-plant video

September 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Machinery brings the future to Latrobe

The front end of this glass line for 12-oz Rolling Rock beer is practically an operator-free zone. Laser-guided vehicles replenish packaging materials on demand. See in-plant video

September 30, 2001

Flexible packaging

Integration issues squeeze machinery builders (sidebar)

Respondents: Packagers don’t appreciate engineering costs

September 30, 2001