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Controls & machine components

Cincinnati Industrial Automation Ltd: Machine vision literature

Cincinnati Industrial Automation (Covington, KY) has published a full-color brochure describing its new EZVision Sensor compact PLC-based machine vision system.

March 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Scientific: Brushless servo motors

Three brushless servo motors in Pacific Scientific’s (Rockford, IL) PMA1 series offer a standard frame length of 125 mm to 175 mm or 150 mm to 200 mm with integral brake.

March 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Hot melt units

Thermojet II hot melt units from Valco Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) offer 3.5- to 180-kg tanks and 16 independently controlled heating zones. Set-up and adjustments are made via touch pad, and the units feature self-tuning microprocessor PID controllers and motor-driven gear pumps.

March 31, 2001

Controls & machine components

Machine vision system

The Inspector, IC Vision’s (Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada) new “self-learning” machine vision system, is designed for cap- or container-making companies.

March 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Skepticism surrounds rebuilt packaging equipment

Some 55% of 286 respondents to a Web survey said their companies had purchased used or rebuilt packaging equipment, or had their own packaging machines rebuilt. Here’s a look at what was replaced and the benefits they sought to gain.

March 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Rayovac charges up battery lines

Two new production lines package AA and AAA batteries, respectively, into peggable, reclosable RPET clamshells. Integrated setups include self-designed battery handling systems.

March 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Krones, Inc: Line simulation software

Krones (Franklin, WI) has introduced its state-of-the-art line simulation software that provides an exact-scale, automated computer representation of a packaging line.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Optimation, Inc: Ethernet I/O for PC

OL4058 Ethernet RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) from Optimation (Huntsville, AL) lists for $199 and provides eight slots for plug-in I/O modules, an Ethernet link and an RS232 serial port.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

lpha gear drives, Inc: Right-angle gearhead

The right angle design of the V-Drive series gearheads from Alpha Gear Drives (Elk Grove Village, IL) allows them to be used in a variety of applications where space is at a premium.

February 28, 2001

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Canfield Connector: Mini sensor

The 9B sensor, with a 3.8-mm diameter, fits into a 4-mm round keyway slot on a cylinder or actuator. The ultra-miniature sensor, from Canfield Connector (Youngstown, OH), uses a small, remote sensing device to relay a signal back to a PLC or PC.

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

CTC Parker Automation: Distributed I/O

CTC Parker Automation (Milford, OH) now offers distributed I/O for its line of PC-based controls. CTC is now licensed to sell I/O products from Wieland Electric (Bamberg, Germany).

February 28, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Viewtronix Inc: Industrial workstations

Viewtronix (Ann Arbor, MI) offers 4 models of NEMA 4/12 industrial panel-mount workstations for use in harsh environment applications. The IC Workstation series is available in 10.4”, 12”, 15” and 18” flat-panel display sizes.

February 28, 2001