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Controls & machine components
Cincinnati Industrial Automation Ltd: Machine vision literature
Cincinnati Industrial Automation (Covington, KY) has published a full-color brochure describing its new EZVision Sensor compact PLC-based machine vision system.
March 31, 2001
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Controls & Machine Components
Pacific Scientific: Brushless servo motors
Three brushless servo motors in Pacific Scientific’s (Rockford, IL) PMA1 series offer a standard frame length of 125 mm to 175 mm or 150 mm to 200 mm with integral brake.
March 31, 2001
Controls & Machine Components
Hot melt units
Thermojet II hot melt units from Valco Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) offer 3.5- to 180-kg tanks and 16 independently controlled heating zones. Set-up and adjustments are made via touch pad, and the units feature self-tuning microprocessor PID controllers and motor-driven gear pumps.
March 31, 2001
Controls & machine components
Machine vision system
The Inspector, IC Vision’s (Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada) new “self-learning” machine vision system, is designed for cap- or container-making companies.
March 31, 2001
Coding, Printing & Labeling
SoBe goes plastic for sport drinks
“With this package, we’re marrying functionality of the package with sports nutrition in the product,” says Bill Meissner, director of brand development for South Beach Beverage, Norwalk, CT.
March 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Skepticism surrounds rebuilt packaging equipment
Some 55% of 286 respondents to a Web survey said their companies had purchased used or rebuilt packaging equipment, or had their own packaging machines rebuilt. Here’s a look at what was replaced and the benefits they sought to gain.
March 31, 2001
Contract packaging
Pepsi caps its cans
In response to consumer concerns about hygiene, Pepsi-Italy has begun thermoforming HIPS overcaps onto single-serve cans of its soft drinks.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
Rebuilt gear means speed to market
Beginning with two metal detector/checkweighers and moving quickly to htf/f/s machinery, Reichel Foods has had a positive experience with rebuilt packaging equipment.
March 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Rayovac charges up battery lines
Two new production lines package AA and AAA batteries, respectively, into peggable, reclosable RPET clamshells. Integrated setups include self-designed battery handling systems.
March 31, 2001
Controls & Machine Components
Krones, Inc: Line simulation software
Krones (Franklin, WI) has introduced its state-of-the-art line simulation software that provides an exact-scale, automated computer representation of a packaging line.
February 28, 2001
Controls & Machine Components
Optimation, Inc: Ethernet I/O for PC
OL4058 Ethernet RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) from Optimation (Huntsville, AL) lists for $199 and provides eight slots for plug-in I/O modules, an Ethernet link and an RS232 serial port.
February 28, 2001
Controls & Machine Components
lpha gear drives, Inc: Right-angle gearhead
The right angle design of the V-Drive series gearheads from Alpha Gear Drives (Elk Grove Village, IL) allows them to be used in a variety of applications where space is at a premium.
February 28, 2001
Controls & Machine Components
Canfield Connector: Mini sensor
The 9B sensor, with a 3.8-mm diameter, fits into a 4-mm round keyway slot on a cylinder or actuator. The ultra-miniature sensor, from Canfield Connector (Youngstown, OH), uses a small, remote sensing device to relay a signal back to a PLC or PC.
February 28, 2001
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