Motion Control & Drives


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Drive systems for the construction industry
August 2002, SEW-Eurodrive
SEW Eurodrive is familiar with the demands of the construction and building materials industry. Machinery, systems and technology must be robust, withstand high torque loads and meet the demands of advancing ...

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Torque motor with torque of up to 7500 Nm
July 2002, Siemens South Africa
In the field of machine tool drives, Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) is offering the 1FW6 torque motor series with an increased torque range of up to 7500 Nm. Torque motors are rotary motors, designed ...

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Compact and innovative soft starters offer real three-phase control
June 2002, Rockwell Automation
The new Allen-Bradley SMC-3 and SMC-Delta starters provide reliable and accurate motor protection together with advanced diagnostics

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Keeping up with AC drive technology
April 2002, Rockwell Automation
The most recent advances in AC drive technology focus on size and performance improvements of the power switching devices known as isolated gated bipolar transistors, or IGBTs

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Drives covering a range of power requirements
April 2002
Ana-Digi Systems is offering a range of AC drives from LG Industrial Systems - a manufacturer specialising in AC drives and PLCs. The iS5 and the iH are two variable frequency drives from the Starvert ...

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Compact motor drive controller
April 2002
The Red Lion motor drive controller (MDC) regulates motor speed by varying an isolated DC control signal to the motor drive system. This controller has two modes of operation, master and follower. Master ...

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Versatile AC drive with PC-based software tools
April 2002
Including features that are standard in both small and medium inverters, the iG5 from LG Industrial Systems is a versatile and flexible AC drive. Suitable for a broad range of applications ranging from ...

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Compact motor drive for up to 3,7 kW (5 hp)
April 2002, Rockwell Automation
Available in power ratings from 0,2 to 3,7 kW (0,25-5 hp) and in voltage classes of 115, 230 and 480 V, the Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 4 AC drive is designed to meet global OEM and end-user demands for flexibility, ...

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Angular synchronising of open loop drives
March 2002
Production lines often require synchronisation of sequential motors, either for 100% angular synchronisation or to generate precision 'stretch' values. Normally these functions would have to be provided ...

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General-purpose LV motor protection relays
November 2001
NewElec's locally designed and manufactured KA range of relays offer economical solutions for general-purpose LV motor protection. The KA relays are compact in size providing protection against overload, ...

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Affordable motor protection
November 2001
The locally designed and manufactured N Series motor protection relays, from NewElec, range from the NC relay offering basic protection to the more sophisticated NJ model. All types provide simple operation ...

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New range of versatile and user-friendly inverters is launched
October 2001
The Micromaster 440 is the top model among the frequency inverters in the series

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The drive for better crane control
August 2001, Nidec Control Techniques
For both OEM cranes and for the very buoyant retrofit market, the trend is now towards distributed control - that means with the processing being as close as possible to the motors ie in the drives themselves

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High performance inverter
August 2001
Toshiba has launched a new high performance inverter, designated the VF-A7, that has advanced sensorless flux vector control, automatic tuning and comes with an integral filter. The company has refined ...

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Robust incremental encoder
August 2001, ATI Systems
Leine & Linde is offering two versions of its 30 mm diameter encoder, the RS310. The two versions of the encoder were specially created for length and diameter measurement in forestry harvesting units. ...

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New range of variable speed drives
August 2001
LG Industrial Systems South Africa has just launched its range of AC variable speed drives. The drives range in size from 0,37 to 220 kW offering space vector, sensorless vector, closed loop control, ...

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A comprehensive drive solution
August 2001
The Vacon series of frequency drives offers a broad power range (0,37 to 1500 kW) and a voltage range from 200 V up to a true 690 V. What this means essentially is that for many manufacturers there is ...

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Encoder preventative maintenance with feature
August 2001, ATI Systems
Leine & Linde's pulse encoder is an important component for speed feedback in the increasingly effective paper machines that produce paper of different types around the clock. An unplanned stop in such ...

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Software programmable LV motor protection relays
August 2001
NewElec is offering its new locally designed and manufactured MA range of low voltage motor protection and control relays. The relays are aimed at satisfying all communication criteria relating to motor ...

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Motion controllers for precision motion control of drives
August 2001
Systematic Designs, a value added-reseller specialising in realtime solutions, has announced the release of its latest precision motion controllers from Tew DatanTechnik of Germany. The TPMC118 is a standard ...

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