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Upgrade Old Machines With Retrofit Controls.


Thermoforming machines that have obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed,
     2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 447.
, ineffective, or hard-to-use controls can be updated with a new off-the-shelf system designed specifically for thermoforming by Machinery Control Systems (MCS (1) See Microsoft Cluster Server.

(2) (Microsoft Consulting Services) The consulting arm of Microsoft which offers support for installation and maintenance of Microsoft applications and operating systems.
) Inc., Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J. Machine functions are monitored through a 15-in. touchscreen See touch screen.  console that features three control screens. One screen allows an operator to actuate machine functions such as the press, pump, vacuum, oven in/out, etc. It also displays which machine doors are open or closed. The second screen is the timer timer,
n radiographic timing device that functions as an automatic exposure timer and a switch to control the current to the high-tension transformer and filament transformer. The face of the timer is calibrated in seconds and fractions of seconds.
 control screen, and the third is the oven temperature control screen. The MCS motion board also controls indexing speed and length. The system can be operated in a manual or fully automatic mode.
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Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Jul 1, 2000
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