Controls & Machine Components

Industry Watch

TRACKING PACKAGING CHANGES

April 30, 2006

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Controls & Machine Components

Coming May 23-24

We’ve teamed up with sister publication Automation World to bring you the Packaging Automation Forum, our first conference. Hershey, Coors, Miller, P&G, Astrazeneca, Wyeth, and Lilly are among the firms whose representatives will be delivering presentations.

April 30, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Touchscreen facilitates custom wrapping

Stretch wrapper’s touchscreen controls store five pre-programmed wrap patterns that can be switched on the fly, accommodating custom wrap patterns.

April 30, 2006

Flexibles

Snacks lift Jim Beam branding

A redesign done for Thanasi Foods, Boulder, CO, makes the licensed salty snacks even more distinctively Jim Beam.

April 30, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Sidel Inc: Gravity Weight Filler

The Sidel GWm low-to-high speed gravity weight filler has now extended its range to cover pasteurized milk products. Platform accommodates all varieties of plastic bottles at output rates from 6ꯠ to 40ꯠ bph.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Compact coupler

The new, compact BK7150 Bus Couplers from Beckhoff Automation are said to cost-effectively connect the CC-Link network to the entire Beckhoff I/O system.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Watlow: Integrated control loop

Watlow has introduced EZ-ZONE™ ST integrated control loop, which integrates temperature control, power control, safety shut-down, and power disconnect in a single package.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Baumer Electric: Cam encoder

Baumer Electric has introduced the MagRes Absolute Singleturn CAM Encoder, a general-purpose, rotarymotion encoder that acts as a programmable limit switch, replacing PLC or PC controllers in low-level operations.

April 30, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

UF's smart sensor has sense of freshness

The University of Florida has developed a sensor platform that it claims is capable of tracking temperature, humidity, shock, and other variables.

April 30, 2006

Contract Packaging

Greenberg joins Packaging World

March 17 marked not only St. Patrick's day but also the first visit to Packaging World's offices by our new legal columnist Eric Greenberg.

April 30, 2006

Cartoning

Machinery's growing role in package innovation

At PMMI Partners in Packaging event, packaging machinery automation supplier ELAU presents examples of innovative packages and the machines that made them commercially viable.

April 30, 2006

Controls & machine components

Packaging looks good in machine vision study

Packaging applications saw machine vision sales of nearly $100 million last year, according to AIA's newly released study.

April 30, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Zero - Max: Zero - Max: Linear actuators

Roh'lix[r] linear actuators from Zero-Max convert rotary motion to linear travel and carry loads at speeds to 70"/sec, depending on size. A less costly alternative to ball screws, actuators are suitable for positioning operations in all types of machinery.

March 31, 2006