Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Digital motor controls

Digital Soft Start controls from Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) feature “auto setup” function for many applications and have the capability to adjust the output voltage to the motor to allow it to run more efficiently and save energy.

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Controls & Machine Components

Magnetic length measuring

Siko’s (Dexter, MI) magnetic length measuring system, model MLA, provides position feedback for industrial applications. Communicates to all types of control systems.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Nordson Corporation: Replacement parts

The Trade Plus™ program from Nordson (Duluth, GA) provides customers with a way to replace worn components with new parts at discounts. No need to rebuild or repair the parts in-house.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

B2BPkg.com Inc: Packaging e-marketplace

B2BPkg.com (Naugatuck, CN) online marketplace will connect buyers with vendors, offering an aggregated catalog of vendors, real-time product availability, price quotes, sampling capability, and real-time order shipping status.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Quark, Inc: Visualization software

Quark (Denver, CO) has released QuarkWrapture, a 3-D visualization software that accelerates the concept-to-market process for consumer product, graphic design, and packaging professionals.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Film fits like a glove (sidebar)

Local service, validation yield dividends

May 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Pepsi co-op is first to employ 'Radar'

Southeast Canners improves efficiency on a can line with a newly developed computer hardware/software system that allows 24-hr/day access to production data via a secured Web site.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC picks up speed (sidebar)

The converting connection

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC picks up speed

P&G, Hershey, M&M Mars indicate that OMAC involvement has already helped their bottom lines. Also, new PackML group formed to tackle naming convention guidelines for machine states.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Palletizer brochure

Alvey Systems (St. Louis, MO) has published a 2-page brochure describing the 940 Series of configurable, high-speed palletizers. Units can palletize at speeds in excess of 200 cases/min.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Scientific: Servo motors guide

Pacific Scientific’s (Rockford, IL) selection guide for high performance servo motors provides information about PMA1, S Series, and R Series motors.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Variable-frequency drive

The IP67-rated, Interbus-compatible variable-frequency drive from Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) works in applications requiring speed control of 3-phase motors.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Brushless servo motors

Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) introduced the Allen-Bradley MP-Series high-performance brushless servo motors. Aimed to give machine builders high-torque motors with reduced footprints for use in smaller machines, the motors accelerate and decelerate quickly.

May 31, 2001