Plastics News Show Daily - April 3, 2012 - (Page 27)
PLASTICS NEWS, April 3, 2012 27
Conair NPE offerings include
ARM — and leg up on profit
By Roger Renstrom
PLASTICS NEWS CORRESPONDENT
ORLANDO, FLA. — Auxiliary equipment
maker Conair Group (Booth
3643) is displaying new products,
offering interactive modules and
showing NPE attendees ways to
cut waste, save energy and improve
yield.
Its NPE2012 exhibit’s “Pathways
to Profitability” theme sets
the tone.
Among its new products,
Conair incorporates applied vision
and robotic technologies in a
material vision proofing system
and an automated resin manager
selection station. Typically, vision
and robotic systems are familiar
to manufacturers, but their
use in auxiliary solutions is unusual.
“Customers have a need to be
more efficient and productive”
and reduce mistakes, said
Christopher Keller, president of
Conair.
“We are driving more efficiency
to the plant floor and providing
solutions to eliminate mistakes,”
Keller said.
Technology advances
The patent-pending material visual
proofing system functions in
conjunction with Conair’s resin
selection station and prevents
operators from making incorrect
or improper manual connections.
MVP software programming automatically
provides 100 percent
validation that the right material
goes to the right destination, said
Conair mechanical engineer
Matthew Baker.
The system’s motorized camera
is installed on a track behind
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Conair’s ARM — or automated resin manager — selection station uses a
pair of three-axis robotic motion coordinators to connect any of up to 32
resin-source ports to as many as 16 destination ports via a single hose.
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