Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: Programmable limit switch

The PL-1746 PLµS plug-in module from Electro Cam Corp. (Roscoe, IL) is designed for use with the SLC 500 family of Allen-Bradley programmable logic controls.

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Controls & Machine Components

ASCO Numatics, Inc: Miniature solenoid valves

Numatics, Inc. (Highland, MI) offers the Mark 4 Series of miniature direct solenoid and low-watt solenoid air-pilot-actuated valves. They feature a lightweight, high-flow four-way design.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Patriot Sensors: High-speed PLS

Gemco Series 1090 ultra-high-speed programmable limit switch is now available from Patriot Sensors & Controls Corp. (Clawson, MI). Offers 16 five-microsec outputs from its front panel and 16 250-microsec outputs that can be fed to Allen-Bradley's I/O.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: PLS for SLC-500

The new PL-1746 PLµS plug-in module from Electro Cam Corp. (Roscoe, IL) is a programmable limit switch on a card that plugs into Allen-Bradley's SLC-500 family of PLCs.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Avery Dennison Retail Information Systems (Printer Div.): Tag & label software

Avery Dennison Printer Systems (Philadelphia, PA) has released a Windows(TM)-based program called Avery Dennison(TM) 32-Bit Tag & Label Software. The program is compatible with the previous 16-bit version of the software.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

BFGoodrich Performance Materials: PP alloy

BFGoodrich Performance Materials (Cleveland, OH) has introduced Stat-Rite(TM) M-200 alloy, an opaque, static-dissipative PP-based alloy designed to provide clean, permanent electrostatic discharge protection in semiconductor and medical-device packaging.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

S.V. Dice Designers: Bag uncuffer

The Waypak/Dice PBUC-UFC plastic bag uncuffer from S.V. Dice Designers (Walnut, CA) is designed to uncuff a plastic bag from a filled case, fold the bag over the products, tamp the air out of the bag, and close and seal the case.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Total Control Products: Web-based factory automation

Total Control Products (Melrose Park, IL) has issued a white paper on leveraging Internet technologies to streamline the flow of data and information on the plant floor.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

FactoryWare: Line analysis tool

Factory Pulse(TM) is a combination of hardware and software from Factoryware (Evanston, IL) that can be used to analyze cycle time and downtime issues on packaging lines.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Green Bay Packaging Inc: Label material

Green Bay Packaging's (Green Bay, WI) Lasertech label material offers converters a 50# laser-grade p-s construction designed for sheet-fed or continuous-feed laser applications.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Supermatic Package Machinery, Inc: Aerosol filler

Supermatic (Fairfield, NJ) introduces the Coster MIG-2 aerosol filler that is entirely self-contained, eliminating the need for a large separate gas house.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Heuft USA Inc: Rejection system

A four-page color brochure describing the Multisegment Rejector is now available from Heuft (Downers Grove, IL). The Rejector segments form a deflector curve that guides unacceptable containers off-line at speeds from 50 to 2귔 containers/min.

November 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

T-Tek Material Handling, Inc: Controls/integration services

T-Tek Material Handling (Montgomery, AL) provides controls and integration services for palletizers, conveyors and other materials handling and hydraulic equipment.

November 30, 1998