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French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... graphics-based single window to monitor all operations and components of each line. The system allows for more than supervision of the line, notes Carne. It includes quality tracking, historical-data trending, ...

Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur

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March 31, 2000, ... the proper care and maintenance of these controls. The continued viability of these programs will need to be monitored in the coming years as these revolutionary risk-control concepts are put in place ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... can be continuously monitored and controlled from a single HMI screen display acting as an instant window into critical operation parameters such as line speed, build ratios, web splicing, and run time. ...

Folder/Gluer Broadens Markets for Contract Converter

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March 30, 2000, ...  The Vesta 1100 folder/gluer has a touchscreen panel that operates the speed control, counter, kicker, and all other functions of the machine. An electronic fiber optic monitoring system is programmable ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

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February 29, 2000, ...  Passing the Test The Virtual AC Intelligent Static Neutralizer reportedly had the ability to monitor and display vital operating information, as well as provide stronger ionization at greater distances ...

Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits

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January 31, 2000, ... forecasting, planning, and performance monitoring. As a result of these missing elements, converters may seek high production rates at the expense of overall efficiency. Over the years, discrete manufacturers ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ... slips, and concentrates come from Ampacet, Techmer, and Spartech Polycom. The company uses mixing/blending equipment from AEC. Honeywell-Measurex supplied the web monitoring equipment. The laboratory features ...

Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects

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December 31, 1999, ... vision-based system monitors print output on any type of material, including flexible and transparent substrates. Zohar adds that the alarm system-which can be audio or visual-alerts press personnel of ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ...  "If you're running a web containing two tracks of labels," says Doerr, "the press operator manually moves the camera from one track to the other from time to time to monitor the entire job. For around ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, ... employees greater responsibility for personally monitoring quality, explains Faletti. "We help them learn to take responsibility and find they get greater job satisfaction." Ongoing employee growth is ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... printing. "You change the tack when you apply heat to the ink during transport. This is why some of our people in the field help our customers out by monitoring what kind of surface temperature of the ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, ... interface. The PC3000 controls the extruder and die temperatures, monitors melt pressures, and provides an interface to the drive system. Precise temperature control of the barrel and die zones is achieved ...

Video web inspection goes quickly from luxury to necessity.

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October 31, 1996, ... time at speeds to 3,000 fpm. The stop-action images are captured, presented on a color video monitor, and magnified. They can be analyzed to such a degree that even the smallest defects such as hickeys ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

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August 31, 1996, ... some type of pollution control device that captures and destroys volatile organic compounds generated by the process; monitoring devices that measure and control the amount of solvent being used and emitted ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

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August 31, 1996, ... or no variation, you've got to carefully monitor your moisture content, you've got to watch the brightness of the deposit, and you've got to give your customers a sheet that's tailored to their specific environment." ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... online service Youtube mp3 . Kernco Instruments produces a video/optical multiple retrofit contact angle meter system that allows material surface characteristics to be visually monitored. The VCA2000 ...

Gauging system lights the way

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August 31, 1996, ... the system will automatically monitor the thickness and sound an alarm whenever the process begins to drift. BKL personnel can then adjust the coating head to eliminate the variation and prevent rejects ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, ... image monitor, and a high quality CCD camera. The Mini Gem is packaged with an intuitive icon control unit, manual camera, and lens control for ease of operation, Luranc says, and a small electronics ...

UV/EB technology moves ahead with the times

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June 30, 1996, ... in a big way. UV Process Supply offers a variable power supply that allows the adjustment of lamp output from 25% to 100% of the rated value. And new lamp-monitoring devices measure the lamp's degradation ...

Web-guiding systems are tailored to your applications

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May 31, 1996, There are four proven web-guiding systems available to the converter. The common denominator in each is that the web edge is monitored by a sensor that There are four proven web-guiding systems available ...