Automation & Digital Transformation

HSA USA: Print Controller

Now available from HSA USA is the HSAJet-TIPC print controller, featuring an integrated 15” touchscreen panel with virtual keyboard that allows for seamless message design and printing.

July 31, 2006

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Maple Systems: 6" Color Hmi

Maple Systems has released the new HMI520T/TE, a 6” touchscreen HMI with a bright 500 cd/m2, 256-color display. Priced at $599, the HMI includes powerful graphics and animation capability, 4-wire analog resistive technology for total design freedom, high-speed processor, pop-up windows, recipes, macros, multiple languages, real-time clock, and support for more than 85 controller families from dozens of major manufacturers.

July 31, 2006

Plant Operations & Equipment

Integrated Wireless Networks

Honeywell will incorporate Crossbow Technology’s wireless sensor networks platform into its XBW product line. Because hard-wired, traditional control, or sensing applications can be difficult and expensive, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) can deliver cost savings and improve operational efficiency.

June 30, 2006

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U.S. packaging machinery growth to reach $5.854 billion

Citing end-user/packager optimism about the economy, strong cash positions, and a “collective sense of urgency in reducing labor costs and improving productivity through expanded packaging automation,” the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (www.pmmi.org) forecasts a 3% growth in packaging machinery sales this year to $5.854 billion.

June 30, 2006

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OEMs: sharpen your focus on safety

Builders of packaging machinery be forewarned: You are entering a world where your customers may want safety features designed and engineered into machines from the get-go rather than having such features retrofitted onto machines as an afterthought.

June 30, 2006

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Revised Packaging Machinery Safety Standard Completed

The standard is harmonized with international and European standards, and provides guidance on how to conduct the recommended risk assessment.

June 30, 2006

Automation & Digital Transformation

B&R Industrial Automation: Stainless-Steel Panels

B&R Industrial Automation offers a universal and scalable line of clean and hygienic visualization devices for use in the bottling, food, luxury products, and pharmaceutical packaging industries.

June 30, 2006

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Are your packaging research methods dated?

Do you gather consumer data using the more passive methods of 20 years ago?

June 30, 2006

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Redesign strengthens Right Guard's essence

New players and product forms continue to crowd the antiperspirant and deodorant aisle, and their effects are being felt by longtime brands in these two categories.

June 30, 2006

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Pack Expo Attendees To Select Winning Packages

Attendees at the Oct. 29-Nov. 2 Pack Expo International 2006 show in Chicago will be invited to vote for the package they feel is the most innovative among those included in the Pack Expo Selects display within the Showcase of Packaging Innovations™.

June 30, 2006

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PMMI issues call for Hall of Fame nominations

According to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, August 14, 2006 is the deadline for nominations for the Packaging Hall of Fame™.

June 30, 2006

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Machine building = risk assessment

Consumer packaged goods companies in the United States have all been busy "downsizing" and "rightsizing" and "outsourcing" for the past decade or so.

May 31, 2006

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Invenio opens India office

Invenio Source has opened an office in Mumbai, India.

May 31, 2006