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

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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

Controls & Machine Components

TEC Engineering Corp.: Automation technology

TEC Engineering (Oxford, MA) has released a brochure describing the Zip-Tec high-speed overhead monorail system designed for unattended product handling.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Machine software

GE Fanuc (Charlottesville, VA) announces the Cimplicity® Safe Gold and Platinum programs. The gold program provides customers with live technical support during business hours, free version upgrades, access to a knowledge-based Web site, and service-pack enhancements.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Paperboard Packaging Council: Buyers' guide

The Paperboard Packaging Council (Alexandria, VA) has released the 2001 edition of the Paperboard Packaging Buyers’ Guide, which lists the products and services provided by its members.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

CTC Parker Automation: PC interface

CTC Parker Automation (Milford, OH) combined I/O with PC software and hardware to develop MachinePoint™ I/O software. Software features up to 6 expansion I/O modules that can be connected to a base buscoupler, providing a maximum of 64 input/64 output bytes.

August 31, 2001