Controls & Machine Components

Efector, Inc: Efector, Inc: AS-I controller

ifm efector (Exton, PA) has released a SmartLogic™ unit that operates as an AS-i module with 4 inputs and 4 outputs. Module uses a programmable microprocessor with an 8-kb program memory that adds fast, local control functions to AS-i installations.

November 30, 2001

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Controls & Machine Components

FEMC: FEMC: Piston fillers sport HMI

FEMC (Bedford Heights, OH) piston fillers are now equipped with Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers and interfaces from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) that control nearly every aspect of the filler’s operation.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Reliance Electric: Drives and motors catalog

A 432-page catalog from Reliance® Electric (Greenville, SC) describes line of adjustable-speed drives and motors. Detailed are AC and DC drives and motors, options and accessories, the Custom Classic line, and a complete listing of product demonstrators and training programs.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc: Package tracking software

The Internet Tracking Recovery and Asset Management (iTRAM™) from Hoover Materials Handling Group (Alpharetta, GA) is an application service provider for tracking returnable packaging.

November 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

A line that's loaded with smarts

Latrobe Brewing Co.’s new line for 12-oz glass bottles of Rolling Rock beer is a textbook illustration of SCADA in action. Analysis of data is equally impressive.

November 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Controls implemented Nature's Way (sidebar)

Line overview

November 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Controls implemented Nature's Way

On a line filling 1- and 2.5-gal containers, a networked modem has already saved more than $10ꯠ by allowing remote troubleshooting by vendors. The network includes seven HMIs and nine PLCs.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Networking survey validates OMAC's mission

After we published our packaging line networking survey of machinery suppliers (see PW, Oct. 2001 or packworld.com/ go/oemnetsurvey), we received the following letter from John Kowal of marketing services firm Grant Jacoby.

November 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Wake up and smell the standards! (sidebar)

OMAC’s accomplishments

November 30, 2001

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