Controls & Machine Components

Diagraph, An ITW Company: Supply catalog

Diagraph® (St. Louis, MO) offers Diagraph Direct, a full-color catalog of marking and shipping equipment and supplies. Catalog contains stencil machines, stencil board, stencils, inks, rollers, brushes, markers and more.

November 30, 2000

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Controls & Machine Components

Raymond Communications: Laws update

Raymond Communications (College Park, MD) has released its year-end "State Recycling Laws Update.” The 130-page edition is in its ninth year and covers 32 recycling issues.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

The Intl. Fresh-cut Produce Assn.: Research projects

The Intl. Fresh-cut Produce Assn. (Alexandria, VA) has completed “Fresh Focus 2000: Consumer Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Fresh-cut Produce.” Survey represents the first definitive information on the fresh-cut industry available, according to association.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Theft prevention

Westvaco (New York, NY) has created a new, wholly owned subsidiary that provides solutions to prevent brand theft. Westvaco Brand Security, Inc.

November 30, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Interroll Corp.: Control mechanism

Capable of communicating with as many as 4 conveyor zones simultaneously, the DriveControl™ ZPA+4 control mechanism from Interroll (Wilmington, NC) is said to provide accurate zero-pressure accumulation.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Electric Enterprise, Inc: Electric Enterprise, Inc: Servo repair service

Sales and repair services for servo motors are provided by Electric Enterprise (Stratford, CT). Large inventory of parts is available, according to supplier.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

DeviceNet3; adopted as International Standard

DeviceNet™ has been adopted as the International Standard by the International Electrochemical Commission (IEC). Responsible for preparing and publishing international electrical, electronic and related standards, IEC member countries recently voted to accept the networking standard, IEC 62026, that includes the DeviceNet specification.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Steeplechase Software Inc: Online information

An ongoing series of timely informational resources from Steeplechase Software (Ann Arbor, MI) is available at the Steeplechase.com Web site www.steeplechase.com/.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Automation Technology: Automation training

Training products for fluid power professionals from Bosch Automation Technology (Racine, WI) comprise hardware and textbooks along with an interactive multimedia system of 7 CD-ROMs.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Data collection

Entek Enwatch™ from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) is an Ethernet-based online data collection system for companies seeking to enhance packaging productivity.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Automation Intelligence: AC servo systems

Available from Automation Intelligence (Duluth, GA), PE Series AC servo drives with SERCOS are now available for use with Sanyo Denki AC servo motors and AML® multi-axis motion controllers.

November 30, 2000

Secondary Packaging

Markem-Imaje: Networking software

Markem (Keene, NH) has introduced CimControl and Composer V5.2, enhanced versions of its Composer label design and CimControl machine networking software packages.

November 30, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Whetting Whetstone's appetite for PC controls

A 350 piece/min wrapping machine at Whetstone Candy relies on PC-based controls and a single software program to control logic, motion and HMI functions.

November 30, 2000