Aaron Hand

Executive Editor, Automation World

Toshiba’s new thermal barcode printer, the B-EX4T3HS, prints at 600 dpi at speeds up to 6 in/s.

High-Precision Printer Eases Compliance in Medical Packaging

Toshiba’s latest thermal barcode printer combines high-resolution printing with high precision in label feeding to print small labels.

A luxury liquor bottle packaging sample shows off the capabilities of Sappi's new Spectro C2S paperboard.

High-Brightness Paperboard Targets Premium Markets

Sappi’s new Spectro C2S creates a high-end experience for luxury beverage, perfume, electronics, pharmaceutical, and health and beauty products.

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Robots Connect With Food in Hygienic Environments

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Stäubli demos its capabilities in fresh food, including work in washdown and sterile environments, with its fully enclosed robots.

Q130WD can sensor from Turck

Can Detection Gets an Upgrade

Besides adding washdown capability, the Q130WD sensor from Turck eliminates incidental contact with cans and improves LED visibility.

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End-to-End Cobot Solution for Blessings in a Backpack

System integrator Allied Technology worked with Universal Robots to create a compact system for packaging food into bags for kids in need.

Agr's Pilot Vision+ is an in-blowmolder vision inspection system particularly suited to containers with high percentages of recycled PET.

Finding Defects, Color Variations in Plastic Bottles

The Pilot Vision+ in-blowmolder inspection system from Agr International tackles challenges from increased levels of recycled PET.

Universal Robots’ UR16e can handle a payload of 16 kg (35 lb).

Collaborative Robot Gets the Heavy Lifting Done

Universal Robots’ latest cobot has a payload capability of 16 kg, enabling its use in packaging and palletizing, heavy machine tending, and more.

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Getting industry to an internet frame of mind

Though we take for granted how much of an impact the Internet has had on our personal lives, the same thinking is not often true when it comes to industry. At The Automation Conference in Chicago, Richard Soley explained what the Industrial Internet Consortium is doing about that.

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Emerson expands measurement capabilities with new acquisition

Acoustic imaging and 3D mapping technologies from APM Automation Solutions will augment Emerson Process Management’s measurement instrumentation portfolio.