Packaging Technology: Page 593

Automation & Digital Transformation

Pilz International: Industrial PC

Pilz’s (Farmington Hills, MI) PIPANEL WS 15 is a compact, high-performance PC workstation for industrial applications. Includes an integral Ethernet interface.

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Balluff: Balluff: Optical sensor

The MiniPro optical sensor from Balluff (Florence, KY) features standard housing dimensions, bracketry and installation capability. The housing is ultrasonically welded, rather than bolted together, making the sensor able to withstand 1겨-psi washdown.

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SIE Sensors, Inc: Label sensor

Recommended for use in inspecting colored or transparent labels to ensure they are present and intact, the “self-teach” label sensor from SIE (Toledo, OH) is a noncontact, noninfrared sensor with a tape speed of 500 meters/min.

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CTC Parker Automation: PC-based control

CTC Parker Automation (Milford, OH) offers MachineShop™ development software. Said to save time and cost in creating applications around CTC’s new PC-based MachineLogic™ control and Interact HMI software.

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Domestic acquisitions, agreements

A management team of Van Leer Metallized Products Ltd. (Franklin, MA) has successfully completed negotiations to purchase the co., renaming it Proma Technologies.—International Paper’s Industrial Packaging Business (Memphis, TN) has completed a merger with Ace Packaging (Monroe, MI).—Westvaco (New York, NY) has signed a letter of intent to sell its liquid packaging business to Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc.

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Networks on the rise, packagers say (sidebar)

Survey methodology

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Protection from Listeria

Warning labels on food products to protect against Listeria is among the mandates proposed to the federal government by The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

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Carton graphics aim to dazzle

Reaching store shelves nationwide in the first quarter of 1999 were dazzling “Liberace” video packages that capture the exuberance of the famed entertainer himself.

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HMS America, Inc: Ethernet interface card

HMS Fieldbus Systems (Chicago, IL) has added the AnyBus-S 10 megabit/sec Ethernet card to its line of interchangeable interface cards for DeviceNet, Profibus, ControlNet, Interbus, LONworks, Modbus Plus, CANopen and other networks.

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Pepperl + Fuchs: Subminiature sensors

New subminiature photoelectric sensors from Pepperl+Fuchs (Twinsburg, OH) provide a cost-effective alternative to fiber-optic cables and their accompanying amplifiers.

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DVT Corporation: DVT Corporation: Vision-guided motion

Ormec’s (Rochester, NY) motion controllers can now be controlled by DVT (Norcross, GA) SmartImage Sensors via an industry-standard Ethernet and TCP/IP connection.

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Automation & Digital Transformation

Industrial Ethernet Assn.: Industrial Ethernet mail list

The Industrial Ethernet Assn. (Downers Grove, IL), created this year, has launched an automated e-mail discussion list. Anyone who wishes to participate in the creation of a single industrial Ethernet fieldbus standard can join the list on the association’s Web site, listed below.

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