User-friendly frequency inverter April 2005, SEW-EURODRIVE SEW-Eurodrive is offering its Movitrac LT, designed to offer an easy-to-use solution for driving its range of geared motors in the 370 W to 4 kW power range. The compact and powerful inverter is produced ...
SPI bus programmable gain amplifier 26 January 2005, Altron Arrow, Tempe Technologies, Analogue, Mixed Signal, LSI Microchip has introduced an eight gain-step, SPI bus programmable gain amplifier family that provides digital control over the amplifier function and design. The ability to configure the system gain and ...
Gentlemen, start your motors November 2004, CBI-electric: low voltage , Fire & Safety Recently, CBI invited customers to test their motor control skills at the BMW advanced driving track. During the course of the day, participants were introduced to the finer arts of skid control and collision ...
Soft starters - a cost saving tool for mechanical engineers October 2004 Statistics show that over 90% of the motors in UK industrial use have no form of control, other than simple electro-mechanical switching. The result of this in maintenance and equipment replacement costs ...
Smart multiport serial boards October 2004, RJ Connect Moxa Technologies, a leading industrial device networking solution provider, has recently developed a Moxa turbo serial engine. Moxa says that this specially designed semiconductor chip is being used ...
New range of open loop vector drives September 2004 LG Industrial Systems' recently introduced iG5A range of open loop vector drives (0,37 to 7,5 kW), feature bipolar analog input, auto-tuning and acceleration torque of up to 200%. All inputs ...
Servo-like control from AC motors September 2004 LG Industrial Systems SA is offering its iV5 closed loop vector inverter. This unit gives a standard squirrel cage motor servo-like control, making it an economical choice for larger servo systems.
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PID module offers 'drag-and-drop' configuration September 2004 Micropower is offering Red Lion Controls' CSPID2 Dual PID Module designed for the Red Lion Modular Controller. The CSPID2 Module is claimed to be the first to offer the convenience of 'drag-and-drop' ...
Flying shear upgrade more than doubles output August 2004 Outdated equipment and the need for increased cutting accuracy at varying speeds have prompted the upgrade of a flying shear system at an automotive accessories plant, where the company manufactures exhaust ...
AC drive suitable for traditional DC drive applications August 2004, Rockwell Automation, Design Automation Rockwell Automation has released a compact, high-horsepower electric drive that brings a host of advantages, even to traditionally DC drive-powered applications.
The Allen Bradley LPM 20 AC drive is ...
High power servo amplifiers August 2004, CBI-electric: low voltage Mitsubishi Electric has extended its 'Super Servo' amplifiers and motors up to 22 kW on three-phase 400 V versions. The MR-J2 Super series has power ratings of 50 W to 22 kW and is available in 200 and ...
Glass bottle manufacturer opts for decentralised drives August 2004 The installation of a complete new line at Consol Glass' bottle manufacturing plant at Clayville, Johannesburg has involved the changeover from installing central drives on separate panels to the use ...
Ceramic power capacitors August 2004 Denver Technical Products offer high voltage, high power, high frequency ceramic capacitors made in France by SCT. Full range is covered, ie, disc ceramic, doorknob ceramic, air and water-cooled types, ...
New flagship electrical drive delivers high performance August 2004, Festo South Africa, Information Security, Products & Solutions In a clear statement that pneumatics technology is not the only field in which it excels, Festo has released an electrical drive that allows positioning axes cycle times of 10 ms and working strokes exceeding ...
PCI motion controllers July 2004 Factory automation engineers and machine builders can now choose from four National Instruments high-performance motion controller boards for PCI-based integrated motion data acquisition applications. ...
Lifting 16 tonne boats above water for easy boarding April 2004, Nidec Control Techniques A CTNet-linked, 4-axis Unidrive system is providing accurate control of a Qualter Hall-designed lift system for hoisting 16 tonne canal boats out of the water at the prestigious new Standedge Visitor Centre at Marsden
Rugged, cost-effective safety light curtain April 2004, Turck Banner Southern Africa Banner Engineering is offering its EZ-Screen safety light screen system, a non-contact, point-of-operation machine guarding system
Automation of existing motor control centres April 2004, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA), NewElec Pretoria The NewElec MA motor protection relay provides a means of upgrading existing motor starters. It permits them to be controlled by Profibus DP, eliminating the need of having to replace older MCCs, before ...
New range of encoders launched April 2004, Ana-Digi Systems Ana-Digi Systems is offering the range of Metronix rotary encoders. The range comprises hollow shaft encoders, accommodating shaft sizes from 6 to 52 mm, standard encoders with shafts ranging from 4 to ...
