Drives Motors Features

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.

Energy efficiency remains top of the drives agenda

Energy efficiency remains top of the drives agenda

Twenty years on and the majority of motor driven systems still have no adequate form of control to switch off when needed or turn down when possible. Steve Brambley reports.

Electric drives: the road to customisation

Electric drives: the road to customisation

Danfoss recognised early on that its customers wanted customised and application specific products, rather than a standard drive that they needed to adapt. Sara Bernard reports.

Services: that extra dimension for drives and motors

Services: that extra dimension for drives and motors

Although the past 20 years has focused on the evolution of drive and motor technology, the services that support them have also seen major advances, as Neil Ritchie discusses.

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