Langston FFG, vintage 1992
28-axis LMC replacement installed in 2005 on a Langston Saturn. The original encoders, wiring and enclosures were retained. Only the obsolete computer, monitor and keyboard were replaced.
SO#6584:
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| Computer enclosure shown after the installation |
| Front of operator console after the installation |
Hooper Printer, vintage early 1960's
7-axis Pacesetter installed in 2004 on a six-color 50” Hooper printer. This machine, which had not previously been equipped with computer control, was being used to produce high quality multi-color boxes and suffered from very long set-up times. The Pacesetter added control of all registers along with jam detection and sequential anilox roll control resulting in much improved print accuracy and greatly reduced set-up times.
SO#6563:
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| Computer enclosure with open door |
Ward FFG, vintage 1973
8-axis Pacesetter installed in 2002 on a Ward. The machine was originally fitted with an 8-axis G&L computer, subsequently upgraded by Ward about twenty years later. We replaced Ward’s analog resolvers with new high-resolution digital encoders and replaced the obsolete Ward computer hardware within the original enclosure with a new industrial quality PC, new color flat panel display and computer keyboard.
SO#6463:
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| Operators console with open door after the installation |
| Operators console after the installation |
| Operator side of the machine |
Langston FFG, vintage 1980's
12-axis LMC replacement installed in 2001 on a Saturn. The LMC had previously received Langston’s “shoebox” upgrade in the late 1990s. As a result IMC’s upgrade was simple and inexpensive. We retained the existing passive backplane industrial MiTAC enclosure but replaced the CPU card, input/ output cards and software. The result is a fully supportable system equivalent to IMC's latest product offering.
SO#6276:
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| Overall view of the computer box with MiTAC computer before the modification |
| MiTAC enclosure after the upgrade |
| View of the input/output section after the upgrade |
Mitsubishi FFG, vintage 1986
19-axis Pacesetter installed in August 2005 on a Summit 100 flexo folder gluer. The Pacesetter replaces the original obsolete, complex and difficult to maintain MHI system.
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| Computer enclosure with open door |
| Operator's Console in front of folding section |
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Hooper Printer Slotter, vintage late 1950's
5-axis Pacesetter installed in August 2005 on a four-color 50” Hooper printer slotter. This more than forty-year-old four-color machine was rugged and well maintained. The plant added reverse angle doctor blade flexo printing, lead edge feeder and IMC's Pacesetter. While the fast computer set-up was desirable, the principal advantage was freeing the operators from the need to “zero” or close the machine “in time” and the automatic return to last register after printing plate-cleaning stops. The result of these upgrades was a productive machine capable of high graphic printing with many of the features of the latest equipment, but at drastically lower cost.
SO# 6612:
Operator Station Next To Machine
Typical register encoding mounting
