Yaskawa America’s new U1000 Industrial Matrix Drive comes in two versions: A 240-V Class matrix drive delivers 10 to 100 hp under normal duty (or 7.5 to 75 hp heavy duty) A 480-V Class matrix drive delivers 7.5 to 350 hp under normal duty (or 5 to 300 hp heavy duty) Unlike conventional drives, the […]
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Market Trend: Packaging leads automation charge
Packaging machinery uses cutting-edge automation, and it’s no wonder. Facilities that parcel products need to deliver high throughput, but modern consumers demand smart packaging in the form of no-fuss containers that protect everything from M&Ms to patio furniture. What’s more, there’s a continuous drive to customize packages and let consumer-facing companies wrap products for bulk […]
New brushless motor IDEA drive from Haydon Kerk
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions’ newest addition to its IDEA drive line of motor controllers is the PBL4850E programmable 3-phase brushless motor drive. With the PBL 4850E, Haydon Kerk replicates the functionality of stepper-based drives for its brushless counterparts as the two drive types now share a common graphical user interface. Among the unique features of […]
Machine Tool Trends: more safety and distributed control
by Miles Budimir, Senior Editor for Design World— Machine tools almost naturally keep pace with advances in motion control, because they’re basically highly precise motion control systems involving accurate and precise positioning. Advances in networking and computing power of controllers have led to better machine tool performance and added functionality in areas such as safety, […]
Siemens expands its Sinamics V20 drive family for basic applications
Siemens announced today the release of its new single-axis Sinamics V20 AC drive, frame size E, with both Low Overload (LO) and High Overload (HO) ratings. The V20 family features easy setup and operation with excellent cost and energy efficiency. With a power rating ranging from 1/6–40hp at 480V AC, Sinamics V20 drives are available […]
Siemens debuts new motor-mounted drive with Profinet and EtherNet/IP communications
The demands put on new material handling systems are increasing. Faster machine build, installation and start up, consuming a smaller footprint and increased flexibility of control system architecture are just a few of the demands from machine builders and end-users today. Siemens brings answers to these demands with the new SINAMICS G110M motor-mounted drive for […]
Drives: Configurable and integrated
A drive, at its most basic level, is a device that controls the speed of a motor. And there are as many drives as there are motor types and then some: drives for ac motors, dc motors and variable frequency drives among others. Over the years, a lot of advances in motion control systems have […]
Elmo now offers super-compact servo drive for 480-Vac
Updated June 30, 2015. Elmo Motion Control introduced at the SIAF exhibition (held in Guangzhou, China, March 9-11, 2015) the “smallest on earth” servo drive that operates directly from 480 Vac. Delivering 10-A continuous at up to 480 Vac with size of only 72 x 140 x 110 mm, the G-OBO10/480 is the smallest servo drive to […]
Elmo Motion Control introduces NANO Gold Twitter
Elmo Motion Control will exhibit a variety of powerful servo drives with advanced networking and intelligence especially suited for automated packaging machines at MC4 2015, Palazzo dei Congressi, Bologna, Italy, on March 10, 2015. Elmo’s newest edition to the Gold Line is the revolutionary NANO Gold Twitter, the highest-powered servo drive on the market. Weighing […]
Z1000U HVAC Matrix Drive from Yaskawa
The Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America, Inc. has released the Z1000U HVAC Matrix Drive, which provides extremely low harmonic distortion in a space-saving design, along with the same HVAC-specific features as the standard Z1000. This single component solution achieves excellent low distortion levels all by itself, completely without the need for additional countermeasures […]