Rockwell Automation Provides Expanded Linear Motion Control System With Improved Flexibility for Food and Beverage Packaging

Rockwell Automation Provides Expanded Linear Motion Control System With Improved Flexibility for Food and Beverage Packaging

Food and beverage manufacturers are constantly under pressure to package a wider variety of products in more types of packaging without compromising productivity. Now they can answer these trends while increasing throughput using the new iTRAK 5730 small-frame intelligent track system from Rockwell Automation. The system uses independent cart technology to support smart, flexible and efficient machines.

 

 

 

IMScompact: Guidance and Measuring Requiring No Additional Space

IMScompact: Guidance and Measuring Requiring No Additional Space

With its sensor system completely integrated in the ball runner block, the new IMScompact integrated measuring system determines the exact position with a high repetition accuracy of ± 1 µm. IMScompact enhances the range of linear guides with integrated measuring systems from size 15, making the measuring system for ball rail systems a compact and cost-effective extension for smaller machines.

 

 

 

AutomationDirect adds Linear Position Potentiometers

AutomationDirect adds Linear Position Potentiometers

GEFRAN linear potentiometers and accessories are now available from AutomationDirect. Linear potentiometers are used to detect position and linear direction movement. A sliding contact moves along a linear resistive element acting as a variable resistor. The proportional change in resistance indicates the position and provides a distance measurement signal.

 

 

 

Allen-Bradley: New CIP Safety Encoders Help Improve Productivity

Allen-Bradley: New CIP Safety Encoders Help Improve Productivity

New Allen-Bradley 843ES CIP Safety over EtherNet/IP Absolute Encoders can meet the needs of safety applications that require speed, direction or position-monitoring functions and, at the same time, help users be more productive. The encoders are the first on the market on CIP Safety over EtherNet/IP capable of up to – and including – SIL 3/PLe safety applications.

 

 

 

POSITAL offers more sensors with IP69K environmental protection

POSITAL offers more sensors with IP69K environmental protection

POSITAL has expanded its portfolio of rotary encoders and inclinometers (tilt sensors) to include more devices with IP69K level environmental protection. These sensors, which are designed to stand up to repeated exposure to the hot, high-temperature water jets used in pressure washing systems, are now available with a wider range of mechanical options and communications interfaces.

 

 

 

Schunk 6-jaw power lathe chuck – sealed for long maintenance intervals

Schunk 6-jaw power lathe chuck – sealed for long maintenance intervals

 

Special seals at the jaw interface and the piston avoid the grease of the sealed 6-jaw pendulum compensation chuck SCHUNK ROTA NCR-A being washed out and the clamping force gradually lost. Even in the case of low clamping forces, precise functioning of the chuck is ensured, and at the same time the seals ensure than an ingress of chips and dirt into the chuck body is avoided. As a result, process safety increases, and the maintenance intervals extend.

 

 

Pepperl+Fuchs: New G20 ZPA Roller Module—Intelligent Buffer System for Conveyor Technology

Pepperl+Fuchs: New G20 ZPA Roller Module—Intelligent Buffer System for Conveyor Technology

 

When it comes to transporting heavy or fragile goods and applications that involve manual tasks, zero pressure accumulation simplifies work on conveyor belts. Individually timed conveyor systems maintain a pre-defined distance between individual products and packages while also preventing damage from unwanted collisions.

 

 

Nexen Introduces Alternative to Traditional Drive Systems: Roller Pinion System in Corrosion Resistant Stainless Steel

Nexen Introduces Alternative to Traditional Drive Systems: Roller Pinion System in Corrosion Resistant Stainless Steel

Nexen Group, Inc. introduces a stainless steel version of its patented precision roller pinion system (RPS). The Nexen RPS engages two teeth simultaneously to achieve superior accuracy with zero backlash at any length. The system is also extremely quiet, and 99% efficient.

 

 

 

Festo’s OVEL vacuum generator packs a lot of capability in a tiny package

Festo’s OVEL vacuum generator packs a lot of capability in a tiny package

Festo’s newest compact vacuum generator, the OVEL, addresses the need for an economical, fully integrated unit that is very lightweight, versatile and easy to deploy and maintain, even for its size class. It’s ideally suited for applications that involve quick, reliable small-parts handling.