Controls & Machine Components

Servo Repair Intl.: Servo repair service

Servo Repair Intl. (Glenshaw, PA) says it repairs AC and DC servo motors to original specs usually in less time and cost than a new one can be shipped from the OEM.

August 31, 2000

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Controls & Machine Components

Pilz International: Safety fieldbus

Pilz’s (Farmington Hills, MI) new PSS SB DI16 is a remote digital input module that provides 16 inputs for the Pilz SafteyBUS p® safe fieldbus system to control decentralized safety-device applications such as light curtains, safety gates or E-Stops.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Rock-Tenn Company: Grease/oil barrier packaging

Rock-Tenn (Norcross, GA) has announced that its Stainless News™ fluorochemical-treated paperboard will no longer contain perfluorooctanyl (PFOS). The company has developed alternative solutions for paperboard products that require barrier or masking protection from grease or oil.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Domino: Food-grade ink

Domino Amjet’s (Gurnee, IL) 432BL is for applications where direct or incidental contact between ink and edible product is made. It can also be applied to gelatin capsules or tablets in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Information powers the 21st century

There are so many concepts we try to embrace as we begin our journey into the 21st century. But I don’t think any one is as important as our quest for more information.

August 31, 2000

Cartoning

Food marketers focus on schools

New packaging equipment is helping two California food processors grow their school foodservice businesses.

August 31, 2000

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Labatt drives toward networked bottling lines (sidebar)

Sophisticated HMI

August 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Labatt drives toward networked bottling lines

Labatt Breweries upgrades bottling line conveyors with compact drives that smooth production, enhance network communications and simplify troubleshooting.

August 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

'Motion Control University'

The Center for Automation and Motion Control at Alexandria Technical College in Minnesota offers a hands-on curriculum of leading-edge technology.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

PPG paints precise picture of production (sidebar)

PI: Benchmarking a World Class line

August 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

PPG paints precise picture of production

From depalletizing to palletizing, powerful graphics-laden software analyzes the performance of PPG Industries’ packaging lines. Analysis results in changes that increase output efficiency 12%.

August 31, 2000

Adhesives/tape

WD-40 promotes 'straw strap'

San Diego-based WD-40 Co. has come up with a way to keep the all-important spray tube on its popular lubricant product from getting lost. The firm’s 8- and 11-oz cans now have a red, yellow or blue stretchable rubber strap around the neck.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

idmarket.com: Web-based technology

A new Web company, idmarket.com, has introduced the Specification Management Application/Real Time (SMA/RT) system. The SMA/RT system organizes packaging specifications, providing access to current specifications and historical changes.

July 31, 2000