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Starting under $1,000 with TwinCAT® PLC software and Windows, the Beckhoff CX Family sets new standards for affordable, high performance PAC technology.
Providing our customer, Penn Engineering, with a means of acquiring high-speed analog data on multiple channels, running custom processing algorithms, and providing deterministic control to operate their new verifiable fastener installation (VFI) tool.
While refining its processes, faucet manufacturer Moen Inc. (N. Olmsted, Ohio) ran across a suboptimal situation with its screw machines.
A three-axis, side-load case packer receives up-to-the-minute information on energy use from a component mounted in the controls cabinet.
‘Dog-bone’-style carrier handles are applied at speeds to 60 cases/min by a pair of vision-guided robots, and it’s all governed by an industrial PC.
Dick Motley doesn’t pretend to be impartial. When it comes to robots for
the packaging industry, he believes that high-speed, articulated-arm
robots are superior to the ever more popular Delta configuration.
From sliced meat to late-capitalism, the reasons that vision-assisted robotic packaging applications have been increasing are many. Within this complex picture, though, certain trends seem clear.
Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, discusses leadership, rising stock prices of automation companies, turning high school students on to manufacturing thanks to Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), sustainability as a manufacturing model, wireless control and the annual Packaging Automation Forum.
The MathWorks, a Natick, Mass.-based developer of mathematical
computing software, has teamed with controls supplier Rockwell
Automation Inc., Milwaukee, to introduce a new approach to programming
for industrial control systems. In this podcast interview, recorded on March 4, 2010, Automation World
Managing Editor Wes Iversen talks with The MathWorks’ Tom Erkkinen and
Rockwell’s Jason Weber about the introduction.
In news from the last couple of weeks, Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, discusses changes to the upcoming Pack Expo, the need for visionary leadership, upcoming conferences for WBF and MESA.
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