Conveying & accumulation

Linear conveyor

A linear, differential-motion conveyor, the Auto-Glide® is available from Smalley Mfg. (Knoxville, TN). Operates at rates to 40'/min. The conveyor's vibratory action occurs in a horizontal plane, via a gentle shuffling action.

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Parker Hannifin Corporation: Basics of pneumatic technology

A new 170-page textbook from Parker Hannifin's motion control training department serves as a basic training manual in industrial pneumatics, ranging from gas laws to pneumatic logic to circuitry.

September 30, 1998

Secondary Packaging

A new record for distributed control (sidebar)

How distributed control spreads the burden

September 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Bringing a glacier to the consumer

On Vancouver Island, a brand new PET bottling line fed by an in-line stretch blow-molding machine is packaging right from a glacier some of the purest water on the planet.

September 30, 1998

Palletizing/depalletizing

Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more

Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Robotics.

September 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

A new record for distributed control

Music distributor Valley Media cuts downtime by more than 50% on its newest labeling/sortation/collating line. A network of micro PLCs controls the line as well as gathers performance data to speed troubleshooting.

September 30, 1998

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The color of branding (sidebar)

What colors mean

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Smart systems improve line efficiency

The more packagers know about their equipment, the better they can fine-tune it. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software has already proven a benefit to some packagers. Part one of a two-part analysis.

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Smart systems improve line efficiency (sidebar)

What is SCADA?

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Ormec (Rochester, NY) has purchased Westamp (Chatsworth, CA), a maker of servo drives, which will operate as Ormec's new UltraDrive Div.

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Laminations: Paperboard edge protector

VBoard® Plus is a laminated paperboard edge protector with a soft, inner liner designed to prevent damage to shipments of wood or metal furniture, as well as plastic, steel and glass products with delicate surfaces.

August 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Macro Engineering: Macro Engineering: High-capacity extruders

World Standard sheet extrusion systems from Welex (Blue Bell, PA) now incorporate either 5" (2겨 lb/hr) or 6" (3겨 lb/hr) vented Mark III extruders, take-offs with integral winders, hydraulic screen changer and a gear pump and static mixer.

August 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

PLC Direct: HMI software

Lookout® Direct is an operator interface software package from PLC Direct (Cumming, GA). Priced at $1귏 for the development/run-time package and $995 for the run-time only package, Lookout Direct is a 32-bit application powered by Windows(TM) 95/98 or Windows NT.

August 31, 1998