Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Digital servo drive

Expanded power ranges and features in the Allen-Bradley Kinetix 6000 digital servo drive from Rockwell Automation is for machine builders needing increased servo drive power and functionality in a compact package.

April 30, 2004

Trends: Page 618

Controls & Machine Components

TURCK, Inc: Analog sensors

Turck expands its line of inductive analog sensors with new housing styles and functions. Major cylindrical styles (12-, 18-, and 30-mm) are now available with an extended linear sensing range, up to 100% longer, in the analog+ series.

April 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Independent Can Co.: Metal packaging brochure

Independent Can’s 2004 Stock Metal Packaging new brochure features its expanded line of offerings including smaller packages for spices, tea, coffee, etc.

April 30, 2004

Controls & machine components

Robots dissected (sidebar)

How do you choose?

April 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Integrated automation: 2004 EEC Seminar message

At the Annual Eastern Equipment Committee Seminar, a first-time attendee walked away with the message that packaging automation is becoming more and more integrated. What’s that mean exactly?

April 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

TTI, Inc: Flowmeters catalog

From TTI comes a revised version of its Ultrasonic Flowmeters catalog. The free 20-page catalog features detailed specifications, accessories, and options, as well as illustrations for each product.

March 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID printer/encoder

From Zebra Technologies, the R4Mplus is a thermal-transfer printer that also writes data to an RFID tag carried in the label stock.

March 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC/WBF working session

Two leading manufacturing industry organizations—World Batch Forum and Open Modular Architecture Controls Users Group—will hold their first working session May 19 as part of their effort to coordinate their development of manufacturing standards for machine and batch control.

March 31, 2004

Controls & machine components

Krones, Inc: Krones, Inc: Monitoring software

Krones has developed a new generation of software systems for monitoring technology. Called Distributed Architecture for Real Time (DART), the software provides an alternative to PLCs when they are not feasible due to economics or space constraints.

March 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Generator brochure

Baldor offers a new 18-page, 4-color brochure highlighting its generator capabilities. Literature describes the following types of Baldor generators: Portables (1 to 11kW); Towables (20 to 200kW); Automatic Energy (8 to 25kW); and Prime Power, Emergency Standby and Peak Shaving (20 to 200kW).

March 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Omron Electronics LLC: Safety relay

Omron’s forcibly guided G7S-E safety relay is developed for applications where safety is a major concern, such as for conveyors, packaging lines, and injection molding and extruding equipment.

March 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Companies

DT Packaging Systems, comprising the Lakso, Merrill, Kalish, Swiftpack, and King brands of packaging machinery, will now be called Nova Packaging Systems.

March 31, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Outsourcing, the 'dirty' word of '04?

Just imagine how explosive the political debate over outsourcing would be if U.S. manufacturers didn’t enjoy easy access to such a well-developed and technically proficient network of domestic contract packaging companies?

March 31, 2004