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Beckhoff Automation: Industrial PC
The CX1000 Automation Control from Beckhoff USA (Minneapolis, MN) is a modular, DIN rail-mounted industrial PC with power and economy. Combines Microsoft® embedded operating systems (Windows CE.NET and Windows XP), and Beckhoff’s TwinCAT®CE PLC and motion control software in a low-cost, rugged hardware platform suitable for use in a wide range of machine tool and industrial control applications, handling up to 6 axes with the PLC program.
February 28, 2003
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Controls & Machine Components
Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc: Cost-effective motion control
New PMAC2A-PC/104 small-format motion controller from Delta Tau (Chatsworth, CA) delivers motion control for mid- to high-volume, multi-axis motion control applications.
February 28, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
SURVEY IDENTIFIES TOP MACHINE ATTRIBUTES
A recent survey of PMMI member companies identified quick-changeover capabilities, flexibility, and fast speeds as the top three machine attributes most often requested by companies purchasing new packaging equipment.
February 28, 2003
Flexible packaging
FPA awards show flexible versatility
From fruit to juice to dog food to premixed grout, the winners in the Packaging Excellence category in FPA’s annual competition are a mixed bag.
February 28, 2003
Flexible packaging
Printing packs a punch
Winners of FPA’s Printing Achievement awards were noted for advances in CTP technology, VOC-free inks, display impact, ‘nuanced color tones’ via gravure printing, and complex distortion printing capabilities.
February 28, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
Q&A: Reducing controls headaches
We recently interviewed Bob Martell, an automation engineer based in Pharmacia Corp.’s main Kalamazoo, MI, facility, to find out how Plug-and-Pack™ guidelines from the OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) Packaging Workgroup are saving Pharmacia and its machinery suppliers time and money.
February 28, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
A servo-driven partnership
A donation of servo technology to a technical college yields students with motion control experience that the packaging field so desperately seeks.
February 28, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
Temperature controller improves heat seals
A total of 12 temperature zones are consistently maintained to within ± 5°F thanks to a microprocessor-controlled module fully integrated into a DeviceNet fieldbus.
February 28, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
No more changeover (sidebar)
Software and servos make it possible
February 28, 2003
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
ARC issues pharma report
Just in time for the Interphex show, ARC Advisory Group has released a new Insight report analyzing the business drivers for Gen3 packaging automation in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
February 28, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Ball rail system
The Generation 2 Ball Rail® System from Bosch Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) has a new runner block that can help machine bu? ^[ k
January 31, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
SICK, Inc: SICK, Inc: SICK, Inc: Open safety network
Sick (Minneapolis, MN), Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI), and Omron Corp. (Schaumburg, IL) are collaborating on the development of an open protocol for safety communications.
January 31, 2003
Controls & Machine Components
Plug-and-Pack guidelines now include PackTags
At a recent meeting of the group behind the Plug-and-Pack™ guidelines, building blocks were created to pave the way for a standardized way of getting production and performance data to and from machines on a packaging line.
January 31, 2003
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