Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Bearing: Pacific Bearing: Linear motion

Pacific Bearing® has implemented its Redi-Rail linear motion line as a pick-and-place solution for environments with extreme requirements.

November 7, 2007

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Controls & Machine Components

Electronic valves for oxygen

Clippard offers new Oxygen Clean Series electronic valves in 2- or 3-way, normally closed or fully ported.

November 7, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

TURCK, Inc: Cylinder position sensors

Turck has introduced the BIM-UNT, a universal magnetic field sensor that detects the position of a piston on standard pneumatic cylinders.

November 7, 2007

Secondary Packaging

RFID on duty at Sentry

For a number of packagers, meeting Wal-Mart’s and other retailers’ mandates for RFID implementation means going the “tag and ship” route to keep costs as low as possible.

November 7, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Views of a contract drug packager

Andrew Billington, operations manager at Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales, addresses recent trends in packaging.

November 7, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

The robots are coming

We may be on the verge of a major growth spurt for robotics on North American packaging lines.

October 30, 2007

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Turning around 'das boot'

What began as a sad look at the skills gap between U.S. and European packaging automation curricula concluded with a pleasant surprise announcement by Purdue University Calumet.

October 26, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Video: Brecon betters blister packing

Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line at contract packager Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales.

October 23, 2007

Contract Packaging

Video: Paint by the numbers: New line cuts costs, speeds filling

Brought in-house to save the costs of copacking, a new, fully automated packaging line for Ace Paint fills paint-sample containers at 50/min with minimal operator intervention.

October 22, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

Palletizing robot

PalletWorld® is a modular solution from Motoman designed to provide high-throughput robotic palletizing for a majority of palletizing applications.

October 17, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Parallel robot

Adept is showing its Quattro parallel robot specifically designed for high-speed packaging and material handling at Pack Expo Las Vegas.

October 16, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Festo Corporation: Proportional gripper

The new proportional gripper HGPPI from Festo is equipped with a semi-rotary drive and handling module with intermediate position.

October 11, 2007

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Servo spindles differentiate NEM Inc.'s new servo capper

Motorized capping heads have long differentiated New England Machinery cappers, but with new servo heads and spindles from ELAU they deliver all-new functionalities.

October 5, 2007