‘Food Processing Industry’

A Manufacturingtalk guide

Start with the news release Banner systems enhanced with remote display from Banner Engineering, which we summarised at the time by saying "Banner Engineering has launched remote display versions to extend the capabilities of its Ivu TG image sensor and Ivu BCR barcode reader.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Rehm unveils enhanced reflow cooling technology from Rehm Thermal Systems: "Rehm Thermal Systems has introduced cooling zone designs for its Vision series of convection reflow ovens.".

In March 2010, we covered the news from Micro-Epsilon - take a look at Micro-Epsilon to display sensors at Mtec 2010 which says: "This year's Mtec 2010 exhibition will feature a range of displacement measurement and non-contact temperature-measurement sensors from Micro-Epsilon. ".

Take a look also at the news release from Baldor, Two Baldor products to make debut at Total, as well as Jung jacks and skates ease movement of heavy loads from Movetech, and Exco selects Delcam's Powermill CAM software from Delcam.

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Pneumatic scissor lift table tilts and rotates (March 2010)

Herkules Equipment has designed and built a scissor lift table that tilts and rotates.

DDEN loadcells measure forces underwater (March 2010)

Applied Measurements has developed its DDEN series of loadcells for the measurement of tensile or compressive forces in underwater locations of up to 10m depth.

Decorative Panels saves space with Fanuc robots (March 2010)

A furniture component manufacturer has integrated two Fanuc robots onto an existing processing system to save space at its Huddersfield facility.

DeltaV wireless automates Novartis biotech factory (March 2010)

Emerson Process Management's plant-wide wireless network is helping to improve maintenance, operator efficiency and plant flexibility in the Novartis biotech factory at Huningue, France.

Stemmer releases Piranha HS 12k and Xcelera-HS (March 2010)

Stemmer Imaging is offering the first products that utilise the HSLink machine-vision connectivity interface pioneered by Dalsa.

TRM motion controllers enable hardware savings (March 2010)

TRM has launched a range of motion controllers, which include colour screens and keypads and therefore remove the need for an external human-machine interface (HMI).