Controls & Machine Components

Custom machine parts configured for your application in one to six days.

Misumi U.S.A. is a global manufacturer of mechanical components that go into automation equipment. Timing belts, pulleys, rotating fins, etc. Configure and change dimensions for your custom project designing and building machinery serving pharmaceutical, medical, packaging, automotive markets, etc.

October 10, 2013

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Material handling

Update on serialization and unique device identification regulatory developments

Key regulatory developments could preempt California e-pedigree and provide clarity for manufacturers and packagers of pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices.

October 10, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Emerson Industrial: Engineering software for conveyors

New SPEC™ engineering software for chain and modular belt conveyor applications determines viability and can recommend alternative optimal solutions.

October 10, 2013

Operational Excellence

How projects fail: 11 pitfalls to avoid

Packaging machinery projects fail for a number of reasons. Here are stumbling blocks to look out for.

October 10, 2013

Material handling

Dyzle BV: Cold chain monitoring technology platform

Supports validated environment for GDP-compliant automated temperature monitoring in the pharmaceutical industry.

October 9, 2013

Operational Excellence

Serialization readiness: What about my partial containers?

When implementing serialization, it’s important to consider handling partial containers.

October 9, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

TURCK: Stainless steel junction box

With the ability to consolidate up to eight individual, localized analog or discrete signals into a single device, this junction box streamlines connectivity requirements.

October 9, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Wago: Current transformer disconnect terminal blocks

Wago Corporation's new 2007 Series TOPJOBS current transformer disconnect terminal blocks simplify current transformer testing, and increase safety within power monitoring applications with an intuitive orange three-position (Operating, Shorting and Measuring) disconnect lever.

October 9, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Parsec: Updated MOM software

The latest version of Parsec Automation’s TrakSYS Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software – 8 R2 – provides a highly-integrated application that helps manufacturers to significantly improve asset utilization and efficiency, increase capacity of the current capital equipment, reduce production costs, decrease lead time, and improve profitability.

October 9, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Air-to-air heat exchangers

Available in 120VAC and 24 VDC models, AutomationDirect’s Stratus line now includes air-to-air heat exchangers – a closed-loop cooling system that employs the heat pipe principle to exchange heat from an electrical enclosure to the outside.

October 9, 2013

Controls & machine components

Vision hardware and software targets packaging and processing

Iris GT smart camera from Matrox, in an application designed by integrator Inventek Engineering, combines with Matrox' Design Assistant (DA) 3.0 smart camera software to inspect bottles presented by a robot. The Iris GT smart camera line lets users easily create their application's flowchart and HMI, and take projects from concept to completion in record time.

October 8, 2013

Operational Excellence

12 topics for effective support agreements

Doing business with a new machinery or controls provider is a long term commitment for both parties.

October 8, 2013

Operational Excellence

Security issues continue to vex healthcare product manufacturers

High-value pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices retain their appeal as a focus of criminal activity around the globe.

October 8, 2013