Controls & Machine Components

OEE in packaging: deceptively simple

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is being used with increasing frequency in the packaging industry. The reason for its popularity lies in the fact that the metric is easy to understand and relatively easy to apply. However, it is also easy to misuse. Here’s how to avoid doing so.

June 14, 2013

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Protective/transport packaging

Thermal pallet covers

Help protect temperature-sensitive products from direct sunlight and temperature variations during distribution.

June 14, 2013

Workforce

McKinsey study estimates potential value of adopting single global standard in healthcare

Live from GS1 Connect: Hard amounts—in dollars and in patient lives—were spelled out in healthcare study.

June 14, 2013

Flexibles

Stirring the pot of package innovation

LiDestri Food & Beverage is set to expand into multi-compartment flexible pouches for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and cosmetic applications.

June 14, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: All-in-one stepper motor, driver, controller

To simplify motion control, the PKA Series from Oriental Motors combines a 0.72° All-in-One Stepper Motor, Driver, and Controller to provide superior noise and vibration reduction.

June 13, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Cognex Corporation: Identification and label verification software

Cognex Corporation announces a new version of the In-Sight® Track & Trace identification and data verification solution for healthcare serialization.

June 13, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Flexible multi-conductor control cable

AutomationDirect now offers flexible multi-conductor control cable available in sizes ranging from 18 to 10 gauge, with three to 41 unshielded conductors (including green/yellow ground).

June 13, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Software engineering platform allows customization

Providing OEMs with an independent and inexpensive way to customize software engineering solutions, Bosch Rexroth’s Open Core Engineering connects PLC and IT automation with a platform that gives developers a greater degree of freedom in software engineering.

June 13, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Embedded PC from boosts small controller performance

Suitable for a wide range of PLC and motion control applications in small- and medium-sized machines, systems, or buildings, Beckhoff’s new DIN rail mounted CX9020 Embedded PC increases controller scalability, enhances user functionality and flexibility, is remarkably compact, and equipped with a powerful 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor.

June 13, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Lenze Americas: Engineering tool simplifies modular machine programming

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Pack Expo Booth S-6033! Lenze Americas has simplified efficient machine programming with its FAST application template and ready-made standard software modules so that machine designers and programmers can quickly and reliably handle a majority of the software engineering requirements for standardized machine modules.

June 13, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Medical-cosmetic products secured in China

Q-Med, Schreiner MediPharm partner to secure products through telephonic authentication.

June 12, 2013

Material handling

Teva maximizes efficiency in minimal space

Unscrambling equipment provider tailors machinery for flexibility, efficiency, and to meet future track-and-trace requirements.

June 12, 2013

Workforce

FDA issues ‘The Essential Guide to Combination Products cGMPs’

With weeks remaining until the FDA’s new cGMP rules kick in, many drug, biologics, and device manufacturers remain unclear about how to comply.

June 10, 2013