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Flexibles

Mining opporunities at a global consumer company

Packaging needs at Hewlett-Packard, as at other consumer goods companies, offer contract packagers opportunities, if they know where to look and how to approach these potential customers.Contract Packaging magazine asked John Hayward, manager of packaging engineering at HP, to discuss where and why the opportunities for contract packaging exist inside HP and at other large-scale consumer goods companies, and how contract packagers can shape winning strategies to gain their business.

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Contract Packaging

SIDEBAR: How CPGs can energize the IVC model

Purchasers of contract-packaging services at consumer packaged goods companies can help facilitate the IVC model by developing a network of the types of contract packagers that meet their needs.

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Contract Packaging

SIDEBAR: Improving speed-to-market

The Integrated Value Chain increases speed-to-market for contract packagers by involving each constituent in the value chain at the beginning stages of package development.

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Contract Packaging

Grow by becoming the value chain connector

A new package-development integration model can help CPs deliver more value.

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Secondary Packaging

Around the Industry

Aaron Thomas Company Inc. has opened an 87ꯠ-sq-ft manufacturing, packaging, and warehousing facility in Bolingbrook, IL, southwest of Chicago.

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Contract Packaging

Creating Win-Win Scenarios

One question contract packagers have been asking me is, “How can I find out what consumer product goods manufacturers (CPGs) really want from my company, and then deliver it to them in the way that they want?”

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Controls & machine components

4-megapixel vision cameras

Toshiba Teli America has introduced its CSB4000 series of machine vision cameras, extending the scope of CMOS camera capabilities with ultra-high resolution, FireWire® or Camera Link® output, full-frame global shutter, and window of interest functionality.

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Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Digital servo drives

Baldor has extended its MicroFlex family of digital servo drives with the launch of a new model for use with brushless rotary AC servomotors utilizing resolver feedback.

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Controls & Machine Components

B&R Industrial Automation: I/O slice system

B&R Industrial Automation introduces its X20 System, a complete control solution as well as a remote I/O system. System can work as an addition to a standard fieldbus to expand existing control systems, or as a complete controller, demonstrating its full performance capability when combined with X20 System CPUs.

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Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Compact control cabinets

Beckhoff Automation has expanded its C63xx compact control cabinet Industrial PC family with 2 new variants. While earlier models in this family had only 1 free PCI slot, the new C6340 and C6350 IPCs both have 3 free PCI slots, making them more flexible and capable of including a wider range of applications.

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Controls & Machine Components

National Instruments: USB 2.0 devices

National Instruments has expanded its USB-9000 series of high-performance USB data acquisition devices with the release of 8 new USB 2.0 Hi-Speed DAQ devices.

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Controls & Machine Components

Servo Magnetics Inc: Brushless DC motor controller

The new 371-0028 brushless DC motor controller from Servo Magnetics provides 1ꯠ watts of power in a small footprint of 3”Wx4.65”Lx1.75”H. This servo-amplifier is suitable for closed- or open-loop velocity and torque control of BLDC motors producing greater than 160 oz-in at 7ꯠ rpm.

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