Balluff Wire Newsletter - April 2009 Issue 22
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| April 2009, Issue 22 |
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PackEx in Toronto, Canada
on May 5-7, 2009. |
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| New application videos on Balluff.com |
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Production Line Changeovers
Sensor application expertise: The key to packaging productivity |
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Balluff has the technology and the know-how to help packaging OEMs significantly improve their customers’ ability to compete in the global packaging market. Working with Balluff, OEMs can turn away from obsolescent methods such as expensive servo motor technology and use new, more economical sensor and encoder technology to make their packing products more changeover-friendly, and their processes more repeatable, more sustainable, and less costly over their production life.
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Featured Applications
Replacing Linear Pots with Non-Contact BIW |
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 The Micropulse BIW offers superior performance and reliability that linear potentiometers can not. Resistive linear potentiometers rely on a contact-based operating principle and therefore often lack reliability and long-term performance. The Micropulse BIW combats this performance problem with the Balluff-patented, non-contact, pulsed-inductive technology, which eliminates premature failure and performance degradation.
Read more about this application >>
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| Machine Tool ID |
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RFID based Tool ID can increase uptime and productivity with one of the fastest Return on Investments you can make. Automated Tool ID also opens the door to many other productivity  advantages, including automatic tool tracking and tool room automation, for even greater efficiency, productivity, and profitability in your process.
See Tool ID products and watch animation >>
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New Article in PMT Magazine
IP-67 Rated Encoders Offer Robust Reliability |
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 “Delicate” is not a word often associated with the packaging environment. Yet one of the most common tools for ensuring precise linear movement and positioning in packaging systems is encoders that use glass discs. All it takes is the impact of a dropped wrench or mistimed jolt to turn what was an expensive precision measurement device into a box of shards...
Read entire article on the PMT website >>
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Read more about Balluff rotary encoders >>
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