Controls & Machine Components

Assembly line automation

"Assembly Conveyor Technical Manual" is a free, 88-page book from Industrial Conveyor (Memphis, TN) that highlights the Industraline® building block approach to assembly line automation.

January 31, 1997

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Controls & Machine Components

Packaging web sites

The stampede onto the Internet by the packaging community shows no signs of slowing. A variety of information can be gleaned from these sites, many of which offer immediate, technical information.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Intermittent-motion cartoner

IWK (Fairfield, NJ) has introduced a horizontal intermittent-motion cartoner capable of handling up to 80 cartons/min, using a rotary style carton opening system.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Single filer

Crown-Simplimatic (Lynchburg, VA) has developed a new pressureless single filer that uses an innovative powered stabilizing guide rail in combination with increasing chain speeds to move PET bottles from depalletizer to rinser.

January 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

On-line case printing supports ECR at Borden

In addition to simplified inventory, faster changeovers, and material cost savings, on-line case coding at six Borden plants means faster response to customer needs.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Servo amplifiers

DSM and Micro DSM are the latest additions to Giddings & Lewis' (Fond du Lac, WI) Centurion(TM) line of servo systems. When used with the YSM- and NSM-series of servo motors, these fully digital amplifiers can be used in a broader range of applications.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Balluff, Inc. (Florence, KY): James C. Birkmeyer, sales and mktg. mgr.; David R. Bird, sensor product sales mgr.; Robert W.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Pressure/gravity filler

The Poly Pressure/Gravity filler from ELF Machines (LaPorte, IN) incorporates a pressure filler and a gravity filler into one unit. Made of HDPE, it's suited for acids and corrosive liquids.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Catalog on disk

Central Products' (Menasha, WI) DiskCat(TM) is a catalog containing over 200 pages of product and sales information on the company's tape- and carton-sealing equipment.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Solid decks

Litco (Vienna, OH) has released a brochure on The Inca Solid Deck, a dry wood fiber deck designed for use as the top deck component in the manufacture of stringer or block pallets.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Luminescence detectors

Balluff (Florence, KY) luminescence detectors read ultraviolet markings invisible to the naked eye. This eliminates the need for visible marks on products.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Label printing software

Bar Code Systems' (Atlanta, GA) Label Printing Solutions (LPS) is a label printing software program that allows a bar code to be created and printed within minutes.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bander/sleever

CMS Gilbreth Packaging Systems (Trevose, PA) has introduced the BASE 1000 Series II bander/sleever with the ability to sleeve multipack products. For use with PVC or Eastar® PETG from Eastman, it sleeves packages made of glass, plastic, metal or paper at speeds to 160/min.

December 31, 1996