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INTRODUCTION

One important focus of the food and beverage market is ensuring that its consumer products are created, packaged and consumed by the public in the safest way possible. Automation equipment that handles food and beverages plays an integral role in the overall quality of the material that is processed. To ensure that this important objective is met, continual improvements in automation equipment design and processing are necessary. Here we briefly discuss the potential advantages of using pinch valves in automated food and beverage handling equipment.

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The Asyril flexible feeder family is growing ... With the arrival of the Largo A5 in its product range, Asyril now offers a wide choice of flexible feeder systems for parts reaching from a few tenths of a millimetre to some twenty millimetres size!

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When floor space is tight and applications call for product to be moved up or down, Dorner’s trio of SmartFlex curve conveyors are the perfect answer.

The SmartFlex Helical Curve, Spiral, and Alpine conveyors greatly expand the capabilities of Dorner’s SmartFlex line by giving customers the ability to move product up or down and around equipment to accommodate tight spaces. Dorner’s SmartFlex line is a flexible conveyor platform that reduces costs, saves time and offers simple configuration and acquisition options to Dorner’s customers within the packaging, medical, health and beauty, industrial automation and electronic industries.

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We’ve shown pop-up transfer tables in the past, like this one that is changing the orientation of a block of food. In the application described below, the pop-up transfer is used to move product between two packaging lines. 

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Problem in Gas Assist Injection Molding

Gas assist injection molding is a commonly used process to make plastic parts today. It allows parts to be light weight and more sturdy than solidly molded parts. Plastic is injected into the mold followed by high pressure gas to force the plastic to the outside of the mold. The end product is a part that is hollow inside.

Several years ago a customer contacted Proportion Air for help in this molding process that he was perfecting. The customer wanted to proportionally control pressure by adjusting his command signal from his PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) to Proportion Air's electronic high pressure regulator. He needed pressure to be as repeatable as possible and he wanted to work up to 5,000 psig. The media used was nitrogen.

Solution in a High Pressure Regulator

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Part 4 of 4

As long as the surfaces are clean and free of oxides at the time of wire insertion (low voltage signals can’t “punch through” oxidation), the gas tight nature of CAGE CLAMP® will maintain the connection quality.

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Part 3 of 4

There are two common test methods used in laboratory testing: the voltage drop test and the temperature rise test.