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SEW announces the new efficient DR Motor series available in three efficiency levels: standard, high-efficiency and NEMA Premium® efficiency.
Industrial networks have many demands beyond those of traditional business networks. Engineers and others who design Ethernet networks for these applications must follow correct installation procedures and must select network equipment that will function in industrial environments with little or no downtime.
A global brand of personal care products found some of its own plant staff was breaking the rules, letting products with incorrect or misaligned labels slide through the vision system. The solution from CI Vision (Aurora, IL) was their Pro Series, a line of inspection systems for contract packagers featuring the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL).
Fully featured BOA Vision System is enhanced with color processing.
Kraft Foods Uses Graphical System Design for Intelligent Machine Fault Detection and Analysis of Easy Mac and Coffee Packaging Lines.
Standard robots and application-specific solutions for picking, packing and palletizing.
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.
A thorough evaluation of every phase of manufacturing with appropriate executive leadership can lead to cleaner manufacturing that creates far less waste.
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.
Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, leads off the Videocast with his agenda for the ARC Conference in early February down in Orlando. Also in the report is a review of just released financial reports for certain automation companies, a recently released MESA study and a preview of the Packaging Automation Forum event, to be held in Chicago, on May 4. 
Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, reviews several earnings reports from the automation industry and then reports from MESA International and Cambashi research on manufacturers improving financial performance and manufacturing performance using well defined metrics and automated data gathering. The latest edition of the popular Packaging Automation Forum is announced. Then a few thoughts on Toyota, Lean and entrepreneurship in automotive manufacturing.
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