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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.
August 31, 2005
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Controls & Machine Components
Maple Systems: Touchscreens
Now available from Maple Systems is the HMI550H-005 Classic operator interface touchscreen, priced at $1499. The 10.4”, 256-color TFT touchscreen is full-featured, including pop-up windows that display keypads, alarm status, bar graphs, and more.
August 31, 2005
Controls & Machine Components
GE Fanuc Automation: Enhanced PLC
GE Fanuc Automation has enhanced its Series 90™-30 PLC family with a new Ethernet Network Inter-face Unit (ENIU). This high-performance communications module en-ables users to connect Series 90-30 I/O over the Ethernet to a master controller through a single point of connection, helping to save configuration time and reduce overall components.
August 31, 2005
Controls & Machine Components
Danfoss Drives: Variable frequency drives
Danfoss has introduced a new, high-power platform for VLT® 5000 Series variable-frequency drives, extending the product range and providing increased flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and reliability.
August 31, 2005
Controls & Machine Components
Rockwell Automation: Safety scanner
Rockwell Automation offers its new Allen-Bradley DeviceNet Safety scanner and I/O that gives manufacturers the opportunity to place safety and standard devices on a single network, simplifying control system design in complex applications such as those found in the automotive, semiconductor, packaging, food, and beverage industries.
August 31, 2005
Conveying & accumulation
Deluxe RFID is scalable
Deluxe Media Service’s RFID for boxed DVDs implemented at three distribution centers to meet a retailer mandate is flexible and scalable. See video
August 31, 2005
Contract Packaging
Salary levels rise, as do job-security concerns (sidebar)
Respondents serious about job security
August 31, 2005
Controls & Machine Components
Make2Pack sharing session
On November 15, 2005, in Milan, Italy, the Make2Pack Workgroup, with support from Siemens, will be hosting an information-sharing session to explain how the Make2Pack effort will benefit all users and suppliers of factory floor automation.
August 31, 2005
Secondary Packaging
A vote for open standards
The Aagard Group--A Minnesota maker of cartoners, case packers, and other secondary packaging systems--recently shipped a side-seam carton gluer/bag-in-box cartoner/case packer/palletizer that's all mounted on one frame and deploys a single PC to control 36 axes of servo motion. In a telephone interview primarily about the new machine and its controls architecture, Brenton Smith, company president, had some intriguing thoughts to share about machine automation in general.
August 31, 2005
Cartoning
PC/servo bag-in-box solution
This 36-axis bag-in-box system occupies minimal floor space, installs easily, and is controlled by a single PC.
August 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Rx distributor turns to internal RFID (sidebar)
Medical device packaging market outlook bright
August 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Three events, one-stop 'shopping'
On the heels of a successful Packaging Services Expo 2005, next year’s version will run side-by-side with two new events—Packaging Containers & Materials Expo and the Packaging Summit Conference.
August 31, 2005
Flexible packaging
BIB tap maintains sterility in use
A patented dispenser tap that keeps low-acid bag-in-box products aseptic after opening draws end-user interest, including Dale’s Kitchen for soup stocks.
August 31, 2005
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