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Controls & Machine Components

Networked valves

Parker Hannifin, Pneumatic Div.'s (Richland, MI) Serial Addressable Manifold (SAM) Generation 3.0 is a communications module that allows valves, sensors and other devices on a packaging machine to communicate on a device-level network.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Industrial PCs

New 9400 series industrial PCs from Xycom (Saline, MI) are low-cost, industrial-hardened PCs designed for PC-based control and human-machine interface applications.

May 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Top/bottom labeler

Joseph Manufacturing's (Overland Park, KS) top/bottom roll-on labeler applies p-s labels to tops and bottoms of containers at speeds to 120 labels/min.

May 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Future shock (sidebar)

Blue-sky packaging ideas

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control (sidebar)

Understanding high-speed motion control

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control

Standardizing on SERCOS for digital motion control in packaging equipment permits Hershey to reduce construction, installation, start-up and maintenance costs.

May 31, 1998

Flow wrapping

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control (sidebar)

What SERCOS is and isn't

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Controls glossary for packagers

With the help of some readers, Packaging World has assembled a glossary that defines controls terms. Most important, these terms are defined in the context of packaging machinery so that virtually all readers can relate them to the machinery we're all familiar with.

May 31, 1998

Flow wrapping

Future shock (sidebar)

Controlling the future of packaging

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Clay-coated paper

Clay Coated Natural Kraft (CCNK) paper from Stone Container (Chicago, IL) was developed for industrial and consumer multiwall bags. The clay coating is applied to natural kraft paper, which results in a paper stronger than bleached paper, the company says.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Display tottle

Fenton, Weber & Jones (Tonawanda, NY) offers an inverted hanging display tottle for liquid packaging applications. May be displayed on a shelf, an end cap for promotional displays or at the check-out register.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Plitek, Inc: Design brochure

Plitek's (Des Plaines, IL) new eight-page color brochure details the company's complete line of Pli-Tab® hang tabs and POP merchandisers.

April 30, 1998