Controls & Machine Components

MGS Machine Corp.: Outserter

The SideWinder™ from MGS (Maple Grove, MN) uses hot-melt glue to attach outserts to pharmaceutical containers at speeds to 200 bottles/min. No tools are needed to load outserts into the magazine.

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National Plastics, Inc: National Plastics, Inc: Plastics museum

The National Plastics Center and Museum (Leominster, MA) describes its numerous changes, upgrades and offerings in a new brochure. Brochure illustrates the newest attractions and programs, including a new interactive Discovery Corner, Plastics in Medicine exhibit and environmental gallery.

March 31, 2000

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Smurfit-Stone: Paper canister

Smurfit-Stone (Chicago, IL) has developed PaperCan™, which uses a paperboard body with an integrated easy-to-open-and-close paperboard lid. Made of laminated or barrier-coated paperboard that can be linear or blank-formed.

March 31, 2000

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Liberty Paper, Inc: Moisture barrier linerboard

M-Guard® Moisture Barrier from Liberty Paper (Becker, MN) is a repulpable linerboard that repels moisture yet looks, feels, corrugates and prints like regular linerboard.

March 31, 2000

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Packaging OMAC group rolls up sleeves

The OMAC Motion for Packaging Working Group met in Chicago in March to hammer out an official mission and articulate four key goals for the group. The OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) working group consists of end-users, packaging machinery builders and controls suppliers seeking to increase commonality and simplification among today’s complex motion controls in packaging machinery.

March 31, 2000

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GE Fanuc Automation: Automation solutions

GE Fanuc (Charlottesville, VA) offers a 469-page catalog detailing its complete line of automation products and services, including Cimplicity software.

February 29, 2000

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Priority One Packaging Machinery: Water bottle loader/unloader

Handling 3- and 5-gal water bottles, the Mariner from Priority One (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) simultaneously unloads empty bottles from racks and loads full bottles onto racks at speeds to 50 bpm.

February 29, 2000

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Advanced Micro Controls Inc: Networkable PLS

The Nexus programmable limit switch, from Advanced Micro Controls (Terryville, CT), is a high-speed resolver-based PLS with up to 16 outputs that comes with a ControlNet interface.

February 29, 2000

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Omron Electronics LLC: Ultra-slim micro PLC

Omron’s (Schaumburg, IL) new CPM2C micro PLC incorporates a range of communications options and functionality into a unit measuring 33mmWx65mmDx90mmH (1.3”W x2.6”Dx3.5”H).

February 29, 2000

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Aerotech, Inc: Low-cost positioning

BA Intellidrive series compact indexer from Aerotech (Pittsburgh, PA) is said to provide low-cost control for many simple positioning applications. Capable of point-to-point motion from a stored program, initiated from an input or through remote mode.

February 29, 2000

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Rockwell Automation: Allen-Bradley Ethernet I/O

Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) permits real-time control capabilities using a non-proprietary version of Ethernet. Allen-Bradley 1756 ControlLogix™ I/O solution is based on industry-standard TCP and UDP protocols.

February 29, 2000

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Exair Corporation: Blowoff kit

Designed for blowoff, cooling and drying functions, the Model 1909 Blowoff Kit from Exair (Cincinnati, OH) gives the customer the choice of air pattern and force.

February 29, 2000

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O. Berk Company: PET jars

O. Berk (Union, NJ) has introduced a line of low-profile and straight-base injection-molded PET jars. The low-profile jars are available in 2-, 4- and 8-oz sizes.

February 29, 2000