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Controls & Machine Components
Cookson Plastic Molding Corp.: Plastic pallet
Cookson Plastic Molding Corp. (Latham, NY) has introduced a plastic pallet for the dairy industry. This foamed HDPE pallet is competitive with wood pallets on a cost/ performance basis due to its longer useful life.
February 28, 1999
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Controls & Machine Components
Krones, Inc: Service information
Krones' (Franklin, WI) Service Information System, KROSIS, is designed to increase line utilization while also providing information on the line's cost-effectiveness.
February 28, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Common Point Technologies Inc: Linking proprietary controllers
Common Point Technologies Inc. (Sugar Grove, IL) is an automation systems integrator whose "Interposing PLC" allows packaging machines with proprietary controllers to communicate with other controllers, whether they're proprietary or industry-standard PLCs or PCs.
February 28, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
OSHA to crack the whip
Industry says that proposed new regulations on safety and health and on ergonomics are unnecessary. Will OSHA listen?
February 28, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
lpha gear drives, Inc: 'Zero'-backlash reducer
Alpha Gear Drives (Elk Grove Village, IL) has introduced the TP low-backlash planetary gear reducer for servo motors. Designed for applications that require extremely precise positioning at high speeds, the reducer features a minimum backlash of less than 1 arc/min, with "zero" backlash achieved through supplier's high-precision manufacturing, according to the company.
February 28, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Sonoco Alloyd: Heat-seal data acquisition
Alloyd's (DeKalb, IL) two-station medical heat-sealer is now available with Level 5 data acquisition software enhanced for validation. Provides recipe management of setup parameters for fast, accurate changeovers.
February 28, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Collating candy at 3,000/min
Goetze's Candy Co. triples speeds for packaging its venerable soft caramel cream candies after installing a new servo-driven feeding/collating system with high-speed motion control.
February 28, 1999
Sustainability
Olin notches easy opening for flexible packs
A small notch makes it easier for consumers to open Olin Pool Products' child-resistant, single-use, flexible packs of chlorine shock treatment products for swimming pools.
February 28, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Putting 'smart systems' to work
Avoid these common pitfalls when implementing a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system on a packaging line.
February 28, 1999
Flow wrapping
'Servo-ing' up new generation Lifesavers
High output and quick, tool-less changeover were wrapper features that were persuasive to Nabisco's Lifesavers Division. Throughput is up at least 15% with servo-driven wrapping of individual hard candies.
February 28, 1999
Sustainability
CMM brings converting into the 21st Century
Through a conference program and exhibits, CMM Intl. attendees will be updated on the latest in printing and converting technologies. Here's a preview of what to expect at Chicago's McCormick Place, April 12 to 14.
February 28, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Collating candy at 3,000/min (sidebar)
How digital motion control works
February 28, 1999
Flexible packaging
Paint pouch packing is under control
Testor packages modelers' paints in a flexible pouch on a hf/f/s machine modified for the purpose. A PLS, a PLC and a complementary logic module contribute greatly.
February 28, 1999
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