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Over Exposed: Protect packaged products from light

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, ... instruments, like the one shown in Figure 3, also are widely used and provide temperature/humidity control as well as controlled irradiation within fixed, though truncated, parameters and exposure area ...

New Converting Products, Part 3

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November 30, 2007, ...  PFFC-ASAP 426 Make Changes Quickly Easy Change system for company's Varex blown film extrusion equipment automatically configures job change parameters faster and more efficiently than with a traditional ...

Hierarchy of Value: Part II

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October 31, 2007, ... converting industry. At Level 1 (described last month), the Ink Cost per Pound is very measurable but has no information on actual performance. It is simply a price list. So, we need to add some parameters ...

The place

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October 31, 2007, ... practice where quick estimates of the parameters involved are necessary, the application of this kind of sophisticated software is time consuming and expensive. This situation has led to the development ...

The Case for Air Cylinder Standardization

(Archive)

September 30, 2007, ... Polywest and Rotec, this meeting also was attended by the AKL, DuPont, Inometa, MacDermid, and Rossini. The quality criteria and tolerances for a total of ten design parameters are specified in the ...

WHAT'S NE

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August 31, 2007, ... squaring attachment for checking machine beds, vertical cutting machinery, roll parallelism, squaring slides and gantries, and measuring geometric parameters. Kit is described as compact, easy to set up, ...

News Clips

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August 31, 2007, ... With this, they can try out different packaging parameters to see how the scores change. This software has no connection to Wal-Mart and is only for use by the individual company, though it uses metrics ...

Driving R&D

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June 29, 2007, ... is specially designed to allow us to perform experiments with precise control over a wide range of parameters and operating conditions,” Reid says. “We can perform mathematical modeling to analyze a particular ...

What's Ne

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May 31, 2007, ... coating operation. Provides machine operators with the tools to establish and control operating parameters for critical process variables including line speed, tension, temperature, and nip force. PFFC-ASAP ...

Paper Roll Handling: What's Right For You

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May 30, 2007, ...  Answers to these questions will shape the parameters of your material handling application and help you determine if there are factors that might impede automation. They also will help you determine ...

Spotlight on Scale-up

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March 14, 2007, ... bestcase conditions, along with designed experiments to scope operating windows for critical parameters. Trial execution is scripted by computer controlled process recipes and real time data acquisition ...

Narrow Web What's Ne

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February 28, 2007, ... Group, Rochester, NY; 800/944-6171; grahics.kodak.com Pandora 2.9 software further automates the process for creating packaging layouts. Users can modify applied step-and-repeat parameters and now can ...

What's Ne

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February 28, 2007, ... rates, part rejections, and machine uptime; allows comparisons across jobs, shifts, or other defined durations; and includes analysis of set-up times, run speeds, and downtime, among other parameters. ...

the PLACE

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January 31, 2007, ... is strongly recommended. Simultaneously changing multiple parameters can lead to incorrect conclusions. We recommend using an information-gathering step — a formal problem solving process — before making ...

the PLACE

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December 31, 2006, ... and blown film to adjust their process parameters to increased outputs, improved run stability, and reduced power consumption resulting in increased productivity. Increased productivity generally leads ...

Wayne Machine Delivers New Extrusion Film Technology

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November 05, 2006, Wayne Machine & Die Co. has designed, built, and sold a combination five-layer Yellow Jacket laboratory blown and cast film line to the Advanced and Applied Polymer Processing Institute in Danville, VA. ...

What's Ne

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September 30, 2006, ... material. Bag widths range from 2.4–15 in., cut-off length is 6.3–30 in., and side gusset measures to 2.8 or 3.2 in. with extra parts. Job storage system allows operator to store all parameters digitally ...

New Products, Part 2

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May 30, 2006, ... image that can be compared immediately to approved PDF artwork. User establishes acceptance parameters for each custom job, and these are used to control the comparison. Cylinders are Repairable ...

Stretching Boundaries

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May 30, 2006, ... parameters, controlling the width to a very tight tolerance. “The WideArray gave us a higher resolution and enabled our system to provide significantly better control,” says Taylor. “We installed the ...

New Products

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April 29, 2006, ... parameters and trend data for each station. Displays set-point, actual viscosity, alarms, and automatic/manual mode for each station. Provides real-time data logging and allows viscosity parameter changes ...