Controls & Machine Components

Omega Design hires new Business Development Manager

Omega Design Corporation has announced that Lee Brown will join its sales and marketing team.

April 1, 2010

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Conveying & accumulation

PET line brings capacity, flexibility to Coke plant

Anchored by a blow/fill/cap Combi system, this new line handles three bottle sizes and reaches 32,000 bottles/hr on 1.5-L bottles. Just two 'pilots' are required to guide it.

March 31, 2010

Cartoning

Candy maker sweetens shrink-wrapping efficiencies

New system integrates seamlessly, increases productivity, and reduces film costs.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Biometric switch

Schneider Electric’s Harmony™ Biometric Switch uses biometric fingerprint-recognition technology in order to grant employee access to sensitive areas and machine functions.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Pressure sensors

Ifm’s compact PQ Series pressure sensors measure a full range of pressure and vacuum typical in pneumatic applications.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Balluff: RFID for tool identification

The Fanuc miLink Tool ID interface from Balluff is designed to interconnect and automate the entering and tracking of tooling information to a Fanuc based CNC from a Balluff RFID Tool ID system.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Flex America Inc: Customized valve solution

Ross' customized valves created and tested by ROSS/FLEX® specialists can produce simple, easy-to-troubleshoot and maintain valve systems.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Solid-state overload relay

Rockwell Automation’s Allen Bradley Bulletin 193-EC5 E3 Plus solid-state overload relay features voltage protection and energy monitoring.

March 31, 2010

Controls & machine components

Cognex Corporation: Surface inspection software

VisionPro® Surface from Cognex Corp. combines visual defect detection and classification technology with a simple user interface.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

AS-interface module

The G11 Module for AS-interface specification 3.0 from Pepperl+Fuchs features 4in/4out, a multi-function LED on each port, sturdy mounting base, short circuit output protection and 4 Amp output current in an 85 mm diameter housing.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Standstill monitoring unit

Omron’s G9SX-SM Standstill Safety Monitoring Unit detects back electromagnetic force (BEMF) so it can monitor standstill status for machines--with no sensors required.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Eaton Corporation: Overload and monitoring relay system

Eaton‘s expanded Motor Insight® overload and monitoring relay system provides advanced monitoring capabilities, diagnostics, and motor and pump protection in one device.

March 31, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Cognex Corporation: Pharmaceutical track-and-trace solution

Designed to help pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers achieve unit-level product traceability, the In-Sight® Track-and-Trace add-on software package for Cognex In-Sight vision systems delivers a ready-to-deploy data capture and verification solution.

March 29, 2010