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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Hooper Engineering: Hf/f/s system with Internet link

Hooper’s (Sarasota, FL) N2500 hf/f/s machine has a server embedded in its PLC, which enables monitoring of production data and service statistics from anywhere in the world via the Internet.

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Baldor Electric Company: New software for controls

Baldor’s (Fort Smith, AR) 18H Vector Control and 23H Servo Control now feature H Series software that allows presetting of up to 8 incremental position moves and 6 absolute moves with a return to home.

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Upper Limits Engineering Co.: Bag filler/sealer

Operating on flat bags or stand-up, zipper pouches, the M6000 bagger from Upper Limits (Livermore, CA) uses vacuum cups and grippers to open premade bags and guide them through filling and sealing.

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Aline Heat Seal Corporation: Heat sealer

Aline’s (Santa Fe Springs, CA) HD-12 is available as a single- or dual-element heat sealer. The machine is foot-pedal operated and able to seal 6 to 12 packages/min when used continuously.

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Automation Intelligence: Motion control software

AML®, the first software-only motion controller, is available for use with Sanyo Denki’s miniature, factory-hardened SMS-10 Stand-alone Controller with an embedded VxWorks operating system.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Diagraph, An ITW Company: Label applicator

Diagraph (St. Louis, MO) will introduce its LA/1000 STS Tamp Label Applicator System designed to apply labels at speeds to 225 products/min on a wide range of substrates.

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Cap unscrambler

Operating at speeds to 1ꯠ caps/min, Eckel & Sohn’s (Gau-Oderheim, Germany) Model C-2000 cap unscrambler is suitable for both regular 28-mm beverage caps and sports caps.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Programmable printing

$vF$?LMarking Systems’ (Downers Grove, IL) thermal-transfer printers are suitable for printing variable information on demand. The J27i2’s compact print unit and separate controller allow mounting on labeling and packaging machinery where space is limited.

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Conveying & accumulation

ITW Dynatec: Precision adhesive placement

Designed by ITW Dynatec™ (Hendersonville, TN), the Dynamelt® Adhesive Supply Unit’s precision gear pump can be coupled with a variable-speed AC motor to allow the adhesive gear pump to track conveyor line speed.

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Siko Products, Inc: Linear feedback mechanism

The Siko Products (Dexter, MI) Magline Absolute is an absolute magnetic strip length measurement system that provides linear feedback in a wet or dirty environment.

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Conveying & accumulation

Textron: Textron: High-speed reject

With a new high-speed servo pneumatic actuator system, cans and bottles may be automatically rejected from beverage packaging lines running at speeds to 1겨/min.

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Electro Cam Corporation: Controller option

Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL) has added functionality to its resolver-based PS-5000 Series programmable limit switch controllers with the addition of the “-D” Option.

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