Controls & Machine Components

Moog Inc: Brushless servo motor

G330 Series brushless servo motors from Moog (East Aurora, NY) offer a continuous torque range of 0.5 to 5 Nm and speeds to 9괌 rpm. The motors are available in lightweight 55-, 70-, and 100-mm frames.

May 31, 2001

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Controls & Machine Components

Clemson University: Training courses

Clemson University (Clemson, SC) is offering week-long training courses in flexography and offset lithography. Classes concentrate on a variety of topics, including process basics, process control, color theory, and press operation.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

SAP: SAP: Formulation control software

Mettler Toledo’s (Columbus, OH) FormWeigh formulation control software system communicates directly to the latest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software from SAP.

May 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Digital motor controls

Soft Start digital controls from Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) allow operators to set up applications by defining operating parameters via a 32-character keypad.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Progressive Plastics Inc: Modified cylinder

From Progressive Plastics (Cleveland, OH) comes an 8-oz modified cylinder with a 22-mm neck finish. Available in water-clear PVC and natural HDPE, as well as colored PVC and HDPE.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Willett America Inc: Willett America Inc: Label creation software

Willett (Grapevine, TX) has launched a new version of LabelMate that now includes Windows 2000. Contains new speed improvements that decrease download time, therefore increasing customer productivity, company says.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Hoffman: Automation brochure

Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) has published a brochure describing its products and customer service. Brochure addresses the following issues: tool-less changeover, increased throughput, reduced maintenance/increased reliability, material/product scrap, and footprint.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Great Northern Corp: Roll cradles brochure

Great Northern (Appleton, WI) has issued new literature describing its recycled fiber, double-sided roll cradles. This design is said to eliminate the need to use back-to-back cradles for roll stacking to reduce packaging material usage by an average of 37%.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Company booklet

Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) has published a booklet describing its products and listing company subsidiaries and worldwide offices. Also describes a product line called Trabtech, which includes surge suppressors that can prevent transient voltage damage.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

CTC Parker Automation: Product brochure

CTC Parker’s (Milford, OH) brochure describes its full line of PowerStation and Industrial PC hardware solutions. The PowerStation family includes a 6” panel replacer as well as a 15” high-performance PC and can be bundled with CTC’s MachineShop suite of controls software.

April 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

SouthPack 2001 wrap

SouthPack ’01 brought packaging manufacturers together from April 24 to 26 at the World Congress Center in Atlanta. The three-day show managed to spark some new technology interests, although many exhibitors were quick to notice the slow pace of attendees throughout the exhibition hall.

April 30, 2001

Converting equipment

Richards Packaging wins for combo pack

An unusual two-chamber bottle for Diamond Magic Chemical Ltd., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, won Best of Show in the annual packaging competition of the National Assn. of Container Distributors (Philadelphia, PA). Winning distributor is Richards Packaging (Brampton, Ontario, Canada).

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Techmark, Inc: Techmark, Inc: Packaging report

Packaging Strategies has published Market Prospects and Technologies for Medical Device Packaging. Allied Development Corp. (Lakeville, MN) and The Techmark Group (Butler, PA) joined with Packaging Strategies to produce this analysis of the medical device packaging market and its leading device producers, packaging suppliers, and equipment manufacturers.

April 30, 2001