Controls & Machine Components

Powell Systems Inc: Net weight scale

Designed with bulk produce packagers in mind, Powell Systems' (Youngstown, OH) AWC-HD linear automatic net- weight scale can make weighments as large as 60 lb, operating at a rate of 17 weighments/min or faster for loads of 20 lb or less.

October 31, 1998

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Controls & Machine Components

West Penn Plastic, Inc: PET project

A literature sheet from West Penn Plastic (West New Castle, PA) details the work the company did for Hershey Chocolate U.S.A. in developing a PET container for Hershey's Non-Dairy Flavored Coffee Creamer.

October 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Controls for a complex system

The entire operation of the MS700 bowl filling/lidding system running at Sanfilippo is tightly controlled by a SLC 504 programmable logic controller from Allen-Bradley (Milwaukee, WI).

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Liquid Container L.P.: Liquid Container L.P.: PET cylinder

A new 19-oz PET cylinder from Plaxicon (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) is ribbed to offer additional strength and a firm feel. Available with a 70-mm, injection-molded neck finish.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Spacing device

AGR Intl.'s (Butler, PA) All-Shapes Spacing Device provides consistent and accurate spacing of rigid containers, cartons, boxes and trays on a conveyor line.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Programming language

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) offers MINT, a new motion control programming language for use with Baldor's vector drive, servo and linear motion products.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Towelette container

A compact towelette container from Continental Glass & Plastic (Chicago, IL) is now available. The blow-molded, HDPE container with injection-molded cap is suitable for jewelry cleaners, insect repellents and skin cleansers.

October 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Small machine is big business for coffee roaster

A compact form/fill/seal machine makes a packaging engineer out of an entrepreneur and launches a whole new business in the process.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) has agreed to buy Anorad Corp. (Hauppauge, NY), a maker of linear motor-based positioning equipment, for an undisclosed price.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

VMIC: Single-board computer

VMIC (Huntsville, AL) introduces the model VMICPCI-7592, a new CompactPCI single-board computer with up to a 233-MHz Pentium® processor. Provides operating system support for VxWorks and Windows NT®.

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Steeplechase Software Inc: Web-aware PC-based diagnostics

Steeplechase Software's (Ann Arbor, MI) VLD Diagnostic Manager, integrated with the company's PC-based control software, displays graphical fault recovery and repair instructions as standard web pages on a built-in browser.

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Serac Inc: Filler control system

The Filler Control System can be retrofitted to Serac's (Carol Stream, IL) net-weigh machines to provide machine control functions and statistical process reports.

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Sekisui TA Industries, Inc: Box erector

Sekisui TA Industries (Garden Grove, CA) introduces the STA-F2000 Series automatic uniform erector/bottom taper. Simple to operate, the machine takes less than 5 min to change over.

September 30, 1998