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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.

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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.

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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.

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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/.

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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.

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Data collection

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cartoning

A vision for low-cost inspection (sidebar)

A detailed look

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Cartoning

A vision for low-cost inspection

Access Business Group, the manufacturing arm for Amway, upgrades cosmetics packaging with new low-cost vision sensors that confirm literature insertion and label presence.

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Controls & Machine Components

OMAC reports progress at Pack Expo

More than 100 people attended the most recent OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) meeting in Chicago during Pack Expo Intl. 2000. The meeting’s purpose: to report progress since the group’s first official meeting in March 2000, also in Chicago.

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