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AN AMERICAN
BULLDOG
Finally, the right baler at the right price. The American 3560 CD is a stout machine
designed and built with the quality you’d expect from American. It’s been created
especially for distribution centers, low volume recycling centers and other
facilities that need a reliable small baler. It’s compact and powerful like a Bulldog
and a true performer in its class. With the vision and tenacity of an eagle,
American Baler takes performance to new heights. Proudly built in Bellevue, Ohio,
USA.
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companies complete control over all decision
points with a single ethernet cable, saving
time in the field and during engineering.
A zero-pressure accumulation conveyor can
be controlled by ConveyLinx Ai2 on a fully
automated basis without a single PC or PLC.
If a higher level of control is needed, a PC
or PLC can be connected via ethernet IP,
ProfiNet, or Modbus over a single ethernet
cable. Although possible, it’s not required to
have a PLC control in every zone; it simply
requires a connection to the critical decision
points in the conveyor system.
Senergy Ai is a motor roller using an
“M8-4pin” connection that quickly connects
to a ConveyLinx Ai2 module. The hall-effect
signals are digitally coded by a microcontroller inside the motor, which makes it possible
to communicate through only one pin to an
external controller.
The microcontroller also digitally provides
through the same pin the complete roller part
number containing the diameter and gearbox
information, serial number, motor temperature, and other information. The external
control can read and analyze all this data
for multiple functions, such as precise speed
and positioning control; full diagnostics such
as over-temp, over-current, and over-volt-age; and many other predictive maintenance
parameters.
With advanced intelligence technology, the
ConveyLinx Ai2 controller can drive the motor
based on distance instead of time, giving
users repeatable motion at a very fine resolution down to fractions of a millimeter.
A single ConveyLinx Ai2 controller can
control up to two zones. (Insight Automation,
www.pulseroller.com)
Conveyor controls: ConveyLinx Ai2 and Senergy Ai are the latest innovations
from PulseRoller, a brand of 24-volt DC motorized drive-roller products and controls
for the conveyor OEM, packaging OEM, and overall material handling markets.
ConveyLinx Ai2 controls the motions of material handling systems from zero-pressure accumulation conveyor to complex packaging and machinery, using precision
repeatable linear motion. ConveyLinx Ai2 drives the powerful Senergy Ai Drive, an
advanced intelligent low-voltage motorized-drive conveyor roller.
ConveyLinx Ai2 is a compact controller that can control nearly every motion used
in conveyance applications. Its modular design over a common network media gives
Roll lifter: Foster has introduced the Foster
On-a-Roll Lifter Universal, its latest media-roll lifting device. The new Foster On-a-Roll
Universal was designed specifically for AGFA
Anapurna, Mira, Tauro, and Titan printers, as
well as many roll-to-roll flatbed cutters such as
those offered by Zund and Esko Kongsberg.
With the device, printer operators can quickly
and safely maneuver rolls as heavy as 660
pounds and as wide as 16 feet, 5 inches. On
AGFA machines, the tray fits easily into the
roll loading area. Multiple roll wedge settings
enable the operator to position the roll precisely for loading and unloading.
The Foster On-a-Roll Lifter Universal can be
quickly reconfigured by the operator, a feature that is particularly useful in shops using
multiple brands and models of printers. (Foster
Manufacturing, www.go-foster.com)
