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Network choices: reaping the benefits of integration

Network choices: reaping the benefits of integration

Integration has come a long way, says Omron’s Robert Brooks. Looking back at the integration debate we engaged in 20 years ago, he considers how much more we can do today.

Overall driveline efficiency and the Ecodesign standard

Overall driveline efficiency and the Ecodesign standard

Does using the highest efficiency motor that money can buy together with an inverter really give you the lowest running costs? Andrew Stephenson takes a closer look at the practicalities.

Energy efficiency: the next frontier for drives

Energy efficiency: the next frontier for drives

How energy efficient can the drive itself become? With premium drive efficiencies already approaching 98 percent, Matt Handley asks: what more can be done to improve upon this? 

Inverters: the progression from high-tech to commodity

Inverters: the progression from high-tech to commodity

Twenty years on and there’s really little to pick between the drives brands in terms of hardware; now it’s a matter of services and software innovation, says Lenze's Geoff Spear.

Itinerant drives specialist peers into his crystal ball

Itinerant drives specialist peers into his crystal ball

Andy Gardener looks back over twenty years of working with drives, taking inverter drive technology into developing markets across the globe, and makes some predictions.

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