Controls & Machine Components

Industry watch

January 5, 2011

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Workforce

The Pack Expo experience: from a packaging student's perspective

I attended my first Pack Expo show in Las Vegas when I was a sophomore. Wow, what a way to start my academic career!

January 5, 2011

Contract Packaging

Leveraging the strength of the new service provider

After slowing during the recession, contract packaging and contract logistics once again are merging. The time is now for CPG companies to take advantage of this dynamic combination of services.

January 4, 2011

Contract Packaging

Forecasting drives co-packer use

Stila Cosmetics produces distinctive packaging while also answering the need for speed by planning strategically for purchasing components through its contract packagers.

January 4, 2011

Secondary Packaging

HMI inspired by iPads and ATMs

The engineers who designed this servo-driven, eight-axis stretch hooder were determined to make it more user-friendly and intuitive.

January 4, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: 4-in. TFT touch panel

A 4-in. TFT color touch screen HMI panel from AutomationDirect features a 320 x 240 dot display; 32,768 colors provide clear and colorful graphics for vibrant and intuitive screens.

January 3, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Advantech Automation Corp.: Embedded IPC

Advantech’s ARK-5260 is an intelligent, fanless, embedded IPC with PCI/PCIe multi-expansion.

January 3, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Food-grade servomotors

AM3000 Synchronous Servomotors from Beckhoff Automation are FDA-compliant food-grade servomotors designed with a wash-down resistant white surface coating.

January 3, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Nook Industries: Linear actuators

Nook Industries’ cost-efficient NIA ACME and Ball Screw Series Linear Actuators provide compact size and enhanced IP65 protection options against solid and liquid elements.

January 3, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Eaton Corporation: Solid-state overload relays

The C440 and XT electronic overload relays from Eaton feature both integral ground fault protection and communications capabilities, in a single, compact device to provide customers with advanced, reliable, accurate motor protection.

January 3, 2011

Flexibles

Million dollar donation to engineering education

Toray Plastics (America), Inc. has donated $1 million to support graduate engineering fellowships at the University of Rhode Island, located in Kingstown, RI.

January 3, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Red Lion: Dual Ethernet expansion card

Red Lion’s XCENET Ethernet expansion card for the Data Station Plus and Modular Controller series products allows operators to easily isolate machine level network traffic from the enterprise level network.

January 3, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Prosoft Technology, Inc: Prosoft Technology, Inc: Application transforms iPhone, iPad, and iPod into HMIs

ProSoft i-View from ProSoft Technology is a mobile phone application for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod that transforms these devices into mobile HMIs to enable real-time remote process control for engineers, plant floor operators and maintenance technicians.

January 3, 2011