Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.
Material Transfer’s Lift & Seal container discharging and feeding system accepts, seals, rotates and discharges containers of material at 78 in. above floor level into a surge hopper.
Kason’s Vibro-Bed circular fluid bed drying system integrates a 30-in. (762mm) diameter fluid bed processing chamber with an electric heater, blower and control panel on 2 shippable frames ready for onsite connection to a power source, dust collector and material inlet/outlet.
Hapman’s Helix 300 Series stainless steel (SS), flexible screw conveyor earned the USDA Equipment Acceptance Certificate for use in USDA dairy grading branch facilities.
ACS Valves’ MD Series of rotary feeders are constructed with an 8-vane rotary valve that ensures proper pressure sealing at the inlet and outlet flange.
Flexicon’s mobile bulk-bag filling system features an integral metal detector/separator, tilt-down flexible screw conveyor for dust-free filling, Twin-Centerpost bulk-bag filler, air displacement vent and programmable controls housed in a SS NEMA 4X enclosure with a touch screen that graphically displays filling functions.