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Controls & Machine Components

Van Dorn Demag: Injection molding

The Pinnacle Series 140- and 280-ton injection-molding machines will debut from Van Dorn Demag (Strongsville, OH). Feature new clamp design with 5-point toggle.

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AC drive

The ACS 400 AC drive from ABB (New Berlin, WI) is compatible with motors of 3 to 20 HP at 208 to 240 V ac. The features of this variable-speed drive include washdown housing, 7 preset speeds, 2 programmable relay outputs, 1 programmable analog output, 2 analog inputs and a 30-character alphanumeric display.

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PCs penetrating packaging lines

In an exclusive PW survey, nearly half of packagers now report using PC-controlled packaging equipment, with more growth projected. However, commitment to PLCs remains strong.

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Pacific Scientific: Brushless servo motors

Sixteen models of the PMA series of brushless servo motors from Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL) offer a voltage range from 250 to 480V ac, torque range from ?

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Checkweighers

Alpha’s (Exton, PA) HP Series of checkweighers is recommended for pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food packaging applications. The various models offer weighing capacity of 1 kg to 150 kg and speeds from 150 to 400 containers/min.

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Volumetric filler

Spee-Dee (Sturtevant, WI) has upgraded its Spee-Dee-Matic volumetric cup filler to include a 10’ conveyor with delay/dwell settings for each filling station.

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Heidenhain Corporation: Heidenhain Corporation: Rotary encoder catalog

A 54-page catalog from Heidenhain (Schaumburg, IL) includes detailed introductory, specifications and accessories sections for rotary encoders. Features photos, charts and diagrams to make encoder selection as easy as possible.

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Nyden Corporation: Single-axis stepper control

Single-axis board-level PLG200 stepping motor controller from Nyden Corp. (San Jose, CA), interfaces with all standard 2- and 5-phase stepping motor drives and motors.

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Baldor Electric Company: PCI motion controller

The NextMove-PCI motion controller from Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) is a compact card that fits into a PC and provides 8 to 12 axes of motor control and extensive I/O, as well as supporting CAN communications.

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Conveying & accumulation

MagneTek: AC drive

MagneTek’s (New Berlin, WI) GPD 305 is a low-cost adjustablefrequency AC drive in a small package. It is ideal for equipment control applications including fans, pumps, conveyors, mixers and material handling installations.

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Secondary Packaging

Star Linear Systems, a Div. of Mannesmann Rexroth: Star Linear Systems, a Div. of Mannesmann Rexroth: Linear motion

Star Linear Systems (Charlotte, NC) has introduced Mini Compact Slides and Tychoway® Miniature Ball Rails®. Both provide linear motion for packaging machines such as fillers, case packers, palletizers and wrappers.

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Conveying & accumulation

Horner APG: Conveyor controllers

Designed for use with power roller technology, Horner APG’s (Indianapolis, IN) family of distributed controllers provides conveyor control for about half the cost of a central control system.

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