Baldor announces a new website service, “Powered By Baldor.” The new service offers Baldor’s industrial distributors the capability of featuring the entire Baldor 501 Stock Product Catalog (over 400 print pages) on their existing website. This includes AC motors and controls, DC motors and controls, motion control products, gear products and industrial grinders.

“Powered By Baldor” allows Baldor distributors and their customers to access product information including performance data, dimensions, specification features and drawings without ever leaving the distributor’s website.

New product information, pricing and other information is automatically updated by Baldor on a regular schedule, making sure the data provided to and by the distributors is always accurate. In addition, distributors who are “Powered By Baldor” can obtain a request for quotes directly on their website. This industry first from Baldor will make it even easier for customers to do business with Baldor and with Baldor’s

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Two novel new machines from partners CADRAM and R&R Sondermaschinen are providing the first automated solutions for applying decoration to window glass, using either lead or bevel-effect 3M Accentrim tape. The machines deliver substantial productivity increases compared with traditional hand-application processes, and offer greater flexibility of patterning thanks to a novel motion control system engineered by Baldor - which includes the option of automatically accepting drawings from computer-aided design (CAD) packages.

The top-of-the-line Lynx-2 machine is designed for applying lead tape, and speeds the creation of Georgian-style doors and windows. This machine comes with an industrial PC front end running special CAD-to-motion software that converts the output of CAD packages into application programs for the real-time motion machinery. A lower-cost variant of the machine for laying Accentrim tape, Lynx-1, provides a standalone solution with its own HMI (human machine interface) panel that allows operators to create simple criss-cross or frame-patterns, or accept patterns created by industry-standard software.

* dual-forcer motor attaches zips to continuous plastic web at 120 pouches/minute

* system shown for the first time at Interpack 2005

An advanced linear motor system from Baldor is powering Supreme Plastics' revolutionary new zipper applicator for continuous vertical form-fill-seal and horizontal flow-wrapping equipment. Two zip attachment heads running along the same magnet track allow the new Reseal 460X machine to achieve throughputs of up to 120 pouches/minute, providing a breakthrough in food packaging technology.

Reseal 460X applies Supreme Plastics 7mm zippers across the web - typically the shortest edge of the pouch - saving material and allowing a higher fill ratio. The technique also eliminates ‘leakers’ at critical points because the zipper closure does not form part of a side weld. The system can be retrofitted to existing equipment, or built into new form-fill-seal machinery, providing an easy means of upgrading food packaging processes to new consumer-friendly resealable formats.

* ultimate industrial networking is being added to successful global drive family

At Machine Builder 2005, Baldor is demonstrating the potential of the Ethernet Powerlink protocol for machinery builders with a 12-axis system performing interpolated real-time motion control. At the heart of the demonstration is an Ethernet Powerlink equipped variant of the successful MicroFlex single-axis drive, Baldor's lean-and-smart drive concept that is now installed in hundreds of systems around the globe.

Available from April 2005, the new Ethernet-equipped MicroFlex servo drive has a lean hardware core that minimises costs for the networked control environment. It provides a dual-port Ethernet hub interface to support easy daisy chaining of drives. There is also a CANopen interface to provide a low-cost means of adding remote I/O or other components to the machine control system; this is supported by the decision of the Ethernet Powerlink group to use CANopen device profiles. The initial release of MicroFlex with Ethernet will offer a choice of single-phase drives capable of delivering continuous output currents of 3, 6 or 9A.