Coding, Printing & Labeling

Full-color label printer

The QuickLabel Systems Div. of Astro-Med introduces its full-color, digital label, tag, sign, and pouch printer for in-house use.

April 30, 2003

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Controls & Machine Components

Integrating processing and packaging

The integration between process and packaging automation in food, beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturing is on the rise.

April 30, 2003

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Vertical form/fill/seal

The economical Flash 250 series of vf/f/s systems from PMB-UVA (Richmond, VA) provides single-axis servo drive, and speeds to 120 packs/min. Made of stainless steel, the equipment can produce pillow and flat-bottom, side-gusseted bags for food and non-food applications.

April 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Columbia/Okura: Training facility

Columbia/Okura (Vancouver, WA) has built a state-of-the-art facility designated specifically for testing, training, and palletizing demonstrations.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

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The Electric Drives and Controls Div. of Bosch Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) now supports the PackML state model via a software module. Developed in close cooperation with the OMAC for Packaging Workgroup, this software module is designed to reduce commissioning time and present a single interface to operators of various packaging machinery.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Saint-Gobain: Rotary seals catalog

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (Wayne, NJ) completed a comprehensive catalog that describes the complete line of OmniLip™ PTFE-based rotary shaft seals.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Web Plus: Keeping engineers in the loop

Designed for engineers who need up-to-date specifications and technical information on electric motors, drives, generators, motion-control products, and gear products, the ProSpec Web site from Baldor (www.baldorprospec.com) provides information to help educate and develop relationships with specifying and consulting engineers.

April 30, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Companies

Morrison Timing Screw (Glenwood, IL) modernized its 15-year-old logo.

April 30, 2003

Contract Packaging

Package graphics: cutting time and costs (sidebar)

Survey participants

April 30, 2003

Flexible packaging

Pouch maker makes progress with PLS

New PLS plug-in module offers easier programming, less wiring, and less hardware for hf/f/s manufacturer.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC Plug-and-Pack Workgroup teams with ISA Food & Pharma Division at Process Control Conference

For the first time, the Instrument Society of America will host an OMAC Plug-and-Pack Workgroup conference track at this year’s ISA Process Control Conference in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, June 5-6, 2003.

April 30, 2003

Controls & machine components

Machine vision with color recognition

The new CV-751 machine vision system from Keyence (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) is equipped with shade scale technology to provide users with color recognition and detection approaching that of the human eye, company says.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: AC drive with vector control helpers

The Allen-Bradley® PowerFlex™ 700 AC drive with vector control helpers from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) helps users meet the tight torque and speed regulation requirements of some of industrial automation’s most challenging motor control applications, company says.

March 31, 2003