South West Water (SWW) has saved up to £25,000 on the running costs of its variable speed drives (VSDs) following a series of optimisation projects that have also avoided the added expense of needing to replace drives early.
KEB Automation has helped a customer in Germany to convert its high-bay warehouse storage and retrieval machine from an old-generation frequency inverters to the new COMBIVERT F6 drive controller from KEB.
When making any purchase, price clearly matters. However, when it comes to variable speed drives (VSDs) and electric motors, as ABB’s David Hughes explains, the price tag does not always reflect what is included with your purchase.
For a recent major upgrade to its La Rosière desalination plant, Jersey Water chose VLT AQUA Drives from Danfoss.
A high accuracy brushed pancake motor from Printed Motor Works is being used in a new ultraprecise rotary table developed by metrology manufacturer Rotary Precision Instruments.