Motor starting can induce shock loads into the driven equipment and harmonic disturbances into the main supply.
Intelligent plant concepts are taking hold in all kinds of industrial operations. Comprehensive drive solutions provider Nord Drivesystems offers “NORD 4.0 ready” components designed to facilitate and further this development.
Feedback devices are the usual choice to help with motor control, here Mark Checkley from KEB UK explains why sensorless closed loop control is chosen by customers to add value and a competitive advantage to their machines.
Fuelled by the introduction of more stringent IE efficiency classes, manufacturers are chasing headline efficiency figures which could only have been dreamed of just ten years ago.
A new type of drilling rig, developed with the help of electric motor company Exico, can be used indoors without the risk of filling the building with diesel exhaust fumes.