Motion Control & Drives


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Optimal drive selection
April 2009, Festo South Africa
Software simplifies drive design and commissioning. Designing a positioning drive system from scratch and successfully commissioning it is an involved and time-consuming process which poses challenges ...

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Altivar drives in IP54 enclosures
April 2009, Schneider Electric South Africa
Schneider Electric scales up plug-and-play. Users have come to expect plug-and-play in complex industrial control systems. Suppliers of variable speed drives have embraced this concept with drives’ ability ...

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Perceptive motor automation
March 2009, Schneider Electric South Africa
TeSys T is an advanced motor management system intended for the protection and monitoring of single and three-phase squirrel cage induction motors.

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Advanced digital DC drive
March 2009, Nidec Control Techniques
Mentor MP is the latest addition to the well known Mentor brand which offers the same flexible control platform as Control Techniques’ intelligent AC drive – Unidrive SP. It makes Mentor MP one of the ...

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Automation and linear motion
February 2009, SKF South Africa
Linear motion technology has evolved into the latest generation of devices that are able to position even heavy loads with sub micron levels of precision while providing reliable service over long and low maintenance operating lives

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Integrated control platforms
February 2009, Beckhoff Automation
C-based control technology for robotics in handling, production and assembly. Gantry robots, SCARA, articulated or parallel kinematics can provide the right robot for any machining step using only one ...

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Linear innovation
February 2009, Siemens South Africa
Synchronous linear motor with magnet-free secondary section track. The 1FN6, a synchronous motor with magnet-free secondary section track, is a new addition to the Siemens series of linear motors. The ...

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Integrated printing applications
December 2008, Siemens South Africa
Motion control and drive solutions for the graphics industry. Integrated drive packages for the graphics industry and modular automation solutions for printing machines have been introduced by Siemens ...

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Yaskawa's new micro-drive
December 2008, Varispeed (A Division of Hudaco Trading)
Varispeed has released the new J1000 AC from Yaskawa into the South African market. The compact drive provides outstanding quality, reliability and performance, providing the automation industry with ...

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Decentralised motion control solutions
December 2008
Advantech’s AMAX-2000 series are categorised as master cards or slave modules. While the master card is kept in the host PC, the slave modules can be distributed so that they are next to motor drivers ...

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Non-contact inclinometers
December 2008, ATI Systems
US army selects Celesco. When the US Army Corps of Engineers wanted to automate the flow control of the Arkansas River, they chose Celesco’s IT9420 inclinometers to provide the solution they needed for ...

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Safety hand-brake winches
December 2008
Denver Technical Products now offers a range of hand-operated safety winches for industrial lifting purposes. These high quality winches utilise heat-treated alloy steel gears and a positive load actuated ...

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Full torque at zero Hertz
November 2008
CHI Control Components has supplied one of their Vacon variable speed drives to Western Platinum Mines for a unique hoisting application. The Vacon NXP variable speed drive is supplying full torque at ...

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Fan drive applications
November 2008
Hitachi demonstrates that energy efficiency has powerful financial rewards. While South Africa may currently be experiencing an intense lesson in the need for energy efficiency and power saving, globally ...

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Efficiency, power and savings
November 2008, Schneider Electric South Africa
Schneider Electric has launched the comprehensive range of new TeSys motor starters. Boosting its range of power control and protection solutions, Schneider is pleased to announce the immediate local ...

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Wind turbine innovations
October 2008, Siemens South Africa
Rotor blades in one cast. Siemens has developed a method with which rotor blades for wind turbines can be manufactured in one cast and without seams. The blades are used to generate power without emissions; ...

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Small drive has big ideas
September 2008, Nidec Control Techniques
Control Techniques has extended the power range of Commander SK AC drives up to 132 kW; never before has so much power and versatility been packed into such a small space. Commander SK requires a fraction ...

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Variable speed drives: standards and guidelines
September 2008, Rockwell Automation
Best practice in the application of variable speed drives can be considered from the macro level – from supply authority to consumer; and from the micro level – from drive controller to motor. SA Instrumentation ...

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Hi-tech and mature: Swiss cheese gets a wash and brush up
August 2008, Nidec Industrial Automation Southern Africa
LEU Anlagenbau of Ueten-dorf, a Swiss manufacturer of specialist machines for the automatic selection, rotation and washing of cheeses has standardised on AC drives from Control Techniques. The annual ...

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Absolute grip on hollow shafts
August 2008, Temperature Controls
The compact FlexiDrive positioning drives from Baumer Electric are now available with angular gears and continuous hollow shafts. The new space saving design is intended for direct shaft mounting, eliminating ...

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