Controls & Machine Components

Hitachi America, Ltd.: Micro variable-speed drives

Hitachi L200 series micro variable-speed drives are equipped with side-by-side mounting capability, built-in timing logic and analog input math (PLC) functions, DIP-switch hand-off-radio, and RS485 Modbus RTU communication interface.

April 30, 2005

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Optimize line efficiencies through real-time info

Ongoing trends in the Consumer Packaged Goods sector—including things like packaging that’s customized according to demographic, rapidly growing numbers of SKUs, abbreviated product life cycles, and the inclusion of RFID tags on cases—have made packaging flexibility an absolute priority for CPG companies and their contract packagers.

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Controller-independent packaging machinery?

“As we aim at capturing more international business, we know we have to offer either Rockwell or Siemens controllers.”

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Largest ever Make2Pack working session

Hard on the heels of interpack in Dusseldorf, Germany, 21 members of the Make2Pack group held a European working meeting on 28-29 April, at member company ELAU’s headquarters in Marktheidenfeld, outside Frankfurt am Main.

April 30, 2005

Contract Packaging

Packaging Services Expo's successful start

The inaugural Packaging Services Expo (PSE) that took place in Chicago in May was attended by more than 1군 visitors.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pacific Cycle shifts into RFID

Pacific Cycle deploys item-level RFID for its boxed bicycles.

April 30, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Sidebar

• A Kaps-All AU-3 unscrambler that places high-density polyethylene bottles onto a conveyor. Glass bottles are loaded on a feed table that are fed into a [b]McBrady[n] Model #200 Orbit bottle cleaner that uses air to do the job before placing bottles back onto the conveyor.

April 30, 2005

Cartoning

Strong presence for ELAU at Interpack

One automation supplier, ELAU, was the buzz of the 2005 Interpack show

April 30, 2005

Controls & machine components

OPC plug-and-play vision

A new PC-based OPC server designed to work with DVT’s Legend series of smart camera-based machine vision systems eliminates custom interfaces and drivers.

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

High-end industrial PC

The APC680 industrial PC is for demanding controller and visualization tasks, with a modular construction that can be adapted to an application’s requirements.

April 30, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Six Innovative Products

High-precision bus terminalThe KL3356 analog input bus terminal provides a measurement accuracy of 0.01% for direct connection of resistor bridges, strain gauge sensors, and all common input signals.

April 30, 2005

Controls & machine components

Ethernet Alters Vision Technology

Some observers say that the large volumes of data generated by vision systems were an important factor in getting some large facilities to bring Ethernet into the factory.

April 30, 2005

Controls & machine components

Cost Concerns for Vision

Ease-of-use is a big factor for those who are integrating vision equipment, but cost is also a driving factor. Systems today can go for as little as $1귔, representing a substantial decline from the recent past.

April 30, 2005