Controls & Machine Components: Page 323

Controls & Machine Components

Equipment brochure

R.A. Pearson (Spokane, WA) offers an 8-page fold-out brochure detailing its packaging equipment capabilities. Each packaging system description is accompanied by photos, application examples and a diagram showing the machine's step-by-step operation.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

NSW Corp.: Industrial products video

NSW (Roanoke, VA) offers a free video that demonstrates its Poly-Net® protective plastic net sleeving and flat sheets. Video details protective net product benefits and uses in a wide range of applications.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Integrated Packaging Systems, Inc: Slat counter

No tools are needed to remove the few internal parts from Integrated Packaging's (Parsippany, NJ) Procount slat counter, making changeover and cleaning fast.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Green Bay Packaging Inc: Holographic facestock

Green Bay Packaging (Green Bay, WI) has introduced Starcatcher, a clear facestock that contains polyester holographic flakes. The 2-mil Label-Lyte(TM) PP from Mobil provides high gloss, good clarity and withstands hot and cold temperatures.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Keyence Corp. of America: Small, fast PLC

Keyence's (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) Visual-KV(TM) PLC allows program parameters to be changed in real time. Featuring a 2-color data window, the unit is 2/3 the size of conventional PLCs but executes instructions in 0.7 microsec.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

AZCO Corp.: AZCO Corp.: Pouch dispenser

Azco's (Elmwood Park, NJ) SP-110 Sur-Pak pouch dispenser is a high-speed, low-maintenance, heavy-duty dispenser that inserts medium-sized pouched products up to 60 g (2.1 oz) into another packaging operation at 300 pouches/min.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motor controls

Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) introduces a new line of controls for brushless linear motors. All 3 models--the LinDrive, the Lin+Drive and the MintDrive--plug directly into the wall and have autotune routines to self-adjust after initial set-up.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Warner Electric, Altra Industrial Motion: Warner Electric, Altra Industrial Motion: Motion control brochure

A new brochure from Warner Electric Motors and Controls (Ann Arbor, MI) details the company's integrated solutions capabilities. Brochure highlights Warner Electric's value-added services, system products and turnkey approach to integrated system solutions.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

SIG Positec Automation: Controllers

The Twin Line range of motion-control products from SIG Positec Automation (Plymouth, MI) permits one system to operate both stepping motors and AC servo motors at the same time.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Rexam Closures & Containers: Rexam Closures & Containers: CR closure and tube

TubeLoK from Rexam Closures (Evansville, IN) and Cebal Tubes North America is a CR closure and tube concept. The package meets the new Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations for products that may contain lidocaine or dibucaine and come in a tube.

October 31, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label-Aire: Wipe-on labeler

The stepper-driven Model 2015 wipe-on labeler from Label-Aire (Fullerton, CA) handles web widths of 4" to 6" at speeds to 750 linear"/min, with accuracy to ±1/32".

October 31, 1999

Closures

Industrial Dynamics/filtec: Inspection system

The Filtec AA-1000 acoustic analyzer from Industrial Dynamics (Torrance, CA) uses sound waves and vibration to detect tiny changes in vacuum or pressure in bottles capped with ferrous closures.

October 31, 1999