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Tablet / capsule counter and filler

See video of CVC "Challenger" that provides 100% guaranteed accurate counting and filling of all standard and irregular shapes and all sizes of tablets, capsules, caplets, transparent soft gels, etc.

August 21, 2007

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Maple Systems: Free HMI Demo Software

See how a touchscreen operator interface can improve help to streamline your packaging process. Download Maple Systems demo software.

August 21, 2007

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Blog strikes chord: Packagers undervalue intellectual capital

The responses to a recent packaging automation blog are as interesting as the original post.

August 20, 2007

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OMAC demo at Pack Expo Las Vegas

OMAC technical director Dave Bauman says that a full booth of demo sponsors is scheduled for Pack Expo Las Vegas. The sponsors and the functions they will demonstrate are as follows:

August 19, 2007

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New CANopen specs

CAN in Automation (CiA) has released several new and some updated CANopen specifications. Most important, says CiA managing director Holger Zeltwanger, is the CiA 311 XML electronic data sheet (EDS) specification. It defines the XML scheme to be used for the electronic description of CANopen devices.

August 19, 2007

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The value of state models

If you're interested in the benefits gained through state model analysis, standards, interoperability, open architecture, the role of cyber security in remote diagnostics, and a few other hot buttons in the packaging machinery and automation space, be sure to download the state models podcast.

August 19, 2007

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Remote diagnostics: The time has come?

The promise of remote diagnostics, which would let a packaging machinery builder "fix" a customer's in-plant machine problem via a Web connection, has been talked about more than practiced thus far. A key roadblock has been the unwillingness of the IT (Information Technology) manager at a packaged goods company to let outsiders past company firewalls so that they can access the company server. Without that access, remote diagnostics is difficult at best.

August 19, 2007

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Rexam mines for data

The May issue of Automation World, Packaging World's sister publication, has a story by AW editor Gary Mintchell on how Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are useful tools when it comes to Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma implementations. A portion of that story describes beverage can manufacturer Rexam's implementation of a plant-floor data acquisition system.

August 19, 2007

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Trends in automation

Expect to see an upswing in client/server-based applications going onto the plant floor in the near future, says Karen Roberts, leader of the Industrial Automation Division at Comark.

August 19, 2007

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Start-up has bold ERP goals

Based in Las Vegas, Med-Health is a combination of three independent businesses where Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology from SAP will play a key role.

August 19, 2007

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A role for IEC 61131-3

The June issue of Packaging World will feature a Q&A feature that takes a look at whether the IEC 61131-3 programming standard will have an impact on how packaging machinery is designed and built. Here's a sneak preview of that story, as Ken Ryan, director of the Center for Automation and Motion Control at Alexandria Technical College, talks about the potential benefits of greater reliance on IEC 61131-3.

August 19, 2007

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Top floor to shop floor info exchange

Connecting manufacturing data - including packaging data - to other company information systems is a trend that continues to pick up steam. A feature story in the March issue of Automation World makes that abundantly clear.

August 19, 2007