Controls & Machine Components

Orion Packaging Systems: Orion Packaging Systems: PC-based motion controller

Ormec's (Rochester, NY) new Orion® Model 30 PC-based motion controller is now available with a 233-MHz Pentium MMX microprocessor for up to five times more processing power than before.

May 31, 1998

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Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electric Automation: Micro PLCs

New FX2N Supermicro(TM) PLC from Mitsubishi Electric Automation (Vernon Hills, IL) is half the size and is said to provide over six times the performance level of existing micro controllers.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Thomson Industries, Inc: Linear motion CD-ROM

A 340-page catalog of off-the-shelf linear motion components including motion controls is now available in CD-ROM format from Thomson Industries (Port Washington, NY).

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Networked valves

Parker Hannifin, Pneumatic Div.'s (Richland, MI) Serial Addressable Manifold (SAM) Generation 3.0 is a communications module that allows valves, sensors and other devices on a packaging machine to communicate on a device-level network.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Industrial PCs

New 9400 series industrial PCs from Xycom (Saline, MI) are low-cost, industrial-hardened PCs designed for PC-based control and human-machine interface applications.

May 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Top/bottom labeler

Joseph Manufacturing's (Overland Park, KS) top/bottom roll-on labeler applies p-s labels to tops and bottoms of containers at speeds to 120 labels/min.

May 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Future shock (sidebar)

Blue-sky packaging ideas

May 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Future shock

Leading packagers chart a course into the 21st century of packaging technology.

May 31, 1998

Flexibles

Trebla 'develops' pouch for U.S., foreign markets

U.S. maker of photoprocessing liquids moves to a stand-up, handled pouch pre-made in Switzerland. With its thicker LLDPE/adhesive/nylon structure, the film allows the pour-spouted pouch to better withstand shipping rigors than a previous version.

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control (sidebar)

Understanding high-speed motion control

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control

Standardizing on SERCOS for digital motion control in packaging equipment permits Hershey to reduce construction, installation, start-up and maintenance costs.

May 31, 1998

Flow wrapping

Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control (sidebar)

What SERCOS is and isn't

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Controls glossary for packagers

With the help of some readers, Packaging World has assembled a glossary that defines controls terms. Most important, these terms are defined in the context of packaging machinery so that virtually all readers can relate them to the machinery we're all familiar with.

May 31, 1998