Controls & Machine Components

TURCK, Inc: Stainless steel I/O solution

TURCK announces the company’s innovative I/O solution, BL Compact, is now available in a stainless steel model.

March 6, 2013

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Controls & Machine Components

Pepperl + Fuchs: Short barrel and square profile inductive sensors

Pepperl+Fuchs added new short cylindrical barrel and square profile models to its NBB family of inductive sensors.

March 6, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Kollmorgen: Motors

All stainless steel hygienic design promotes robust operation in harsh environments with frequent high-pressure washdown cleaning.

March 6, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Cognex Corporation: OCR reading software

Cognex Corporation announces that its industry-leading OCRMax™ technology now includes auto-tune.

March 6, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

FasTest Inc: Automated pneumatic connectors

FasTest announces the expansion of its FI and FE internal and external automated pneumatic connectors to include options with metric mounting holes, pilot ports and BSPP media ports.

March 6, 2013

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Pretzel maker navigates new twists in packaging

Toad-Ally Snax installs pouch vf/f/s and case coder upgrades to accommodate growing product demand.

March 6, 2013

Workforce

IoPP AmeriStar Awards to highlight EastPack

The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) announced today that this year's winners of the AmeriStar Package Awards Competition will be honored during a ceremony at the June 18-20 EastPack conference and exposition in Philadelphia.

March 5, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Smart grid-ready ECO TeleController

A new DIN-rail mount ETHERNET 2.0 ECO Telecontroller expands WAGO Corporation’s Smart Grid-Ready I/O portfolio.

March 5, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Electric Motor Solutions: DC brushless ECM motors

The ECMDC75A Series of Brushless Electronically Commutated Motors (ECM) are designed for use in low voltage (12 to 48vdc) battery powered motor applications requiring long life, low maintenance, high efficiency and low noise.

March 5, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech, Inc: Stand-alone, multi-axis motion control for laboratories

Using up to 4 axes of brush, stepper, or brushless AC motors, Aerotech’s new Ensemble LAB motion control platform makes it easy to automate laboratory and light industrial manufacturing applications using a full-color touch-screen display with an intuitive menu-driven interface.

March 5, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Linear drives

Linear drive with adjustable pitch enables variable speed without changing drive motor speed.

March 4, 2013

Contract packaging

New custom PET bottle for oat beverage

Scheduled for launch in April is a new, custom bottle for an unusual oat beverage from Butler, NJ-based Sneaky Pete’s.

March 4, 2013

Workforce

Are these acts of war?

It is good to have someone from inside Washington DC express views on national security that make sense to me and that align with topics that are written about frequently on this blog.

March 1, 2013