Controls & Machine Components

Adherence pack 2.0 now reaching Walmart stores

As baby boomers continue to age and adherence packaging becomes more important than ever, one clever company built a 134-axis servo-driven system to crank out lots and lots of blister-style adherence packs.

May 21, 2014

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Controls & Machine Components

Portescap: Brush DC motors

Designed to excel in uneven loading environments.

May 21, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Manufacturing performance software brings big gains

What happens when a fifth-generation family-owned business goes shopping for real-time manufacturing performance software?

May 20, 2014

Digital Transformation

Brewers wrestle with data acquisition

Brewers who are looking at various automation solutions, including automated data acquisition software, to help them cope with rapid growth should keep one thing in mind: Keep operations data in its own network and have it report out to an enterprise network. Otherwise, bandwidth issues could surface, and plant floor operations could be negatively affected.

May 20, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric: New line of electric motors

Baldor Electric Company announces a new line of electric motors – Super-E motors with Baldor Shaft Grounding Brush.

May 20, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Pepperl+Fuchs: Isolated device coupler

FieldBarrier R4D0-FB-IA is a diagnostic-enabled isolated device coupler for FOUNDATION Fieldbus H1 and PROFIBUS PA instruments.

May 19, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Next-gen cartoning at interpack

There’s no place like interpack to see the latest in packaging machinery controls and automation. Here are just two examples of what the world’s largest packaging show had on display in the cartoning sector.

May 19, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Clippard: High-flow bidirectional electronic valves

Designed using a unique, patented valving principle, Clippard’s DV Series Minimatic electronic valves are compact, precision-built 2-way control valves that provide flows to 100 l/min.

May 16, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Networkable integrated motor systems

Integrated motor-drive-controller-encoder systems are now networkable with PROFINET IO for industrial automation applications.

May 16, 2014

Workforce

Healthcare Packaging goes to Washington: Part III of a four-part series

An update on the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society in Rockville, MD.

May 15, 2014

Material handling

Healthcare Packaging goes to Washington: Part II of a four-part series

An update on the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention in Rockville, MD.

May 15, 2014

Protective/transport packaging

How medical tech manufacturers save by outsourcing warehousing

Medical technology clients can realize economies by keeping warehousing local, avoiding excess shipping costs, and eliminating internal overhead.

May 15, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Tolomatic: Single-axis drive/controller for electric actuators

Specifically designed for electric actuators, the low-cost, easy-to-use Tolomatic actuator control solution automatically configures all performance information about the actuator and motor system.

May 15, 2014