Equipment capping machine

Infrared thermometers or spot radiometers are designed to provide the actual surface temperature at a single, relatively small point on a machine or surface. Within a predictive maintenance program, the point-of-use infrared thermometer can be used in conjunction with many of the microprocessor-based vibration instruments to monitor the temperature at critical points on plant machinery or equipment. This technique is typically used to monitor bearing cap temperatures, motor winding temperatures, spot checks of process piping temperatures and similar applications. It is limited in that the temperature represents a single point on the machine or structure. However when used in conjunction with vibration data, point-of-use infrared data can be a valuable tool. 

Additionally often rotary machines are equipped with precompression wheels (Figure 4). In this case the punches pass the precompression wheels before the main compression events starts. Precompression has the same stages of compression as the main compression, but the applied forces are lower. Precompression is deemed to be helpful to avoid, for example, dusting, capping, or lamination. After precompression only a lower main compression force is necessary. 

Figure 25 Fully automatic inspection machine with vision system for inspection of vials filled with lyophilized product. 1, Inspection of cap, crimp, and shoulder and neck area 2, feed-in 3, inspection for heel cracks 4, inspection for particulates on the bottom of the cake or glass cracks on the bottom 5, inspection for particulates on the cake surface 6, inspection of side wall for glass cracks, product splashes, and melt-backs 7, inspection of side wall for glass cracks, product splashes, fill levels, melt-backs 8, exit of good product 9, exit of rejected vials class A 10, exit of rejected vials class B 11, inspection of neck and shoulder area. (Drawing and equipment, Seidenader Maschinenbau GmbH, D-85551 Kirchheim/Miinchen, and Seidenader Equipment Inc., Florham Park, NJ 07932.)...

Initial loading of the equipment Into the reactor Is carried out using the pile cap crane. Subsequent lifting of the machine for repositioning is achieved by the use of a portable winch unit. The machine weighs approximately 35 kgs. 

Experimental setup Using EEG data monitoring equipments from Nihon Kohden, an EEG cap with 19 chan-nels/electrodes were placed on the scalp of a subject based on 10-20 electrode placement systems. The robot is connected wirelessly to the EEG machine and a computer. Labview program from a computer was used to send signal to control the robot and at the same time create trigger data to EEG machine. The signal sent wirelessly to the robot via Xbee connection while connection to the EEG machine is via NI-USB6008. 

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