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Start Seeing Savings When You Use a VFD With Synchronous Capabilities
The savings keep coming when you use a variable frequency drive (VFD) with synchronous bypass and transfer capabilities. It can help reduce up-front capital costs and long-term energy and maintenance costs in various motor-control applications. And along with the cost savings, the VFD can help you increase efficiency and achieve more flexible process control.
A VFD with synchronous capabilities allows you to operate one motor continuously with variable speed control or to start and synchronize multiple motors. It also gives you the ability to soft start large motors.
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Motor Feature
SEW Eurodrive: Variable-speed gearmotors
As a leading manufacturer of drive technology, we also supply mechanical variable-speed gearmotors. For both series, VARIBLOC®and VARIMOT®, you can easily infinitely adjust the speed mechanically using a handwheel or remote control.
Speeds of up to 45 kW can be easily adjusted mechanically
Mechanical variable-speed gearmotors are simple yet robust drive components that represent an inexpensive alternative in many materials handling and process engineering applications. This is because you control the speed infinitely variably yourself: mechanically using a handwheel or via remote control. The process does not involve any costly control cabinets or frequency inverters at all.
Motor Control
Pepperl+Fuchs Introduces the ENI58PL Configurable Incremental Rotary Encoder: One Encoder, Many Applications
The newly released ENI58PL series incremental rotary encoder from Pepperl+Fuchs offers incredible efficiency for a wide range of applications. IO-Link enables custom configuration, making it possible to commission machinery and equipment even faster. ENI58PL boasts flexible configuration options and a wide range of use cases-from classic industrial applications, such as precise positioning in the automotive industry and applications in wind power plants, to special engineering.
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Power Transmission
NORD: Powerful Agitation Gear Unit – Drive solutions from NORD with reinforced bearings
NORD DRIVESYSTEMS supplies reliable drive technology with reinforced bearings and increased bearing spacing for the processing industry. This ensures maximum radial and axial load capacities and longer service life of the gear units.
By their nature, agitator applications result in higher radial and axial loads on the gear unit. NORD DRIVESYSTEMS supplies application-specific options which feature high powers and efficiency. These include an agitator version (VL2 bearing) with increased bearing spacing and reinforced bearings as well as a Drywell version (VL3 bearing) with additional oil drip plate and leakage or oil sensor.
Advanced Motion Feature
How can collaborative handling scenarios be implemented in non-structured environments? SCHUNK has looked into this question in cooperation with KUKA and Roboception. In a technology study, the three companies show how bin picking can succeed in collaborative operation quickly, simply and efficiently.
The example task is designed realistically: Unsorted metal parts are gripped by a Cobot and taken from a bin, placed in a grinding machine and stored precisely after machining. In parallel, workers should be able to manually feed, move or remove transportation boxes or individual parts during operation.
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Machine Safety
Keep It De-Energized with PNOZ s60 from Pilz
With the safe voltage monitor PNOZ s60 Pilz now offers monitoring of the de-energised state of plant and machinery to the standard UL 6420. This makes PNOZ s60 suitable for use in applications that require a Safety Lockout System (SLS), that is, when plants are held in a safe, electrically de-energised state.
The safe voltage monitor PNOZ s60 completes the safety relay PNOZsigma product group and fulfils the requirements for the implementation of SLS applications as prescribed by law in the USA. PNOZ s60 monitors de-energised 1-phase or 3-phase supplies with neutral conductor. Two switching thresholds can be set: 12 V or the 6 V common in the food and beverage sector.
Oil & Lubricants
SEW GearOil Premium Lubricant
Protect your valuable standard and industrial gear units – from the first operation and during each service.
SEW-Eurodrive's new premium lubricants have been developed to a special formula based on many years of experience and countless test runs. They reduce friction between gear wheels and extend the service life of wear parts such as sealing rings and even the lubricant itself.
The requirements imposed on our gear units by many applications regarding load and operating hours are steadily increasing. You should therefore use SEW GearOil as it significantly contributes to increasing the performance and service life of your gear units.
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