Littelfuse, Inc., a global manufacturer of leading technologies in circuit protection and power control, invites plant engineers, facility managers, and maintenance professionals to join our special electrical safety month webcast.
HARTING is looking back at a successful Hannover Messe. The field of Single Pair Ethernet in particular had a whole series of plenty exciting news to report, with two new partnerships and the first series parts.
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The industrial automation industry has become more complex and dynamic. Companies must work with multiple suppliers and partners to create the most innovative automation solutions.
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Reserve your spot now for Facing a World of Water Under Pressure
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Cybertech Automation is proud to announce the expansion of services into Texas, Pennsylvania and the Northwest Territories.
Recently, Janne Kuivalainen was sworn in as the new head of Global Product Management & Development, and member of the Leadership Team in Danfoss Drives. Janne Kuivalainen has been recognized as a distinguished profile and strategist within the drives industry for years.
EPLAN is hosting a Virtual Fair just a few weeks after the Hannover Messe. Along with the new motto this year – Interactive –the event has been redesigned to help reflect its trade fair flair.
Proax Technologies was proud to be involved with the the 6th Annual Windsor Great Lakes District, First Robotics Competition which took place on March 29th-30th 2019 at the St. Denis Centre. Not only was Proax a proud sponsor for the SAINTS BOT TEAM but Cathy Campbell was selected to sit on the panel of judges for the competition.
HPS offers a complete line of energy efficient low voltage & medium voltage distribution transformers and energy efficient drive isolation transformers to meet the latest energy efficiency regulations in Canada.
Mazak will showcase several innovations that apply emerging technologies to manufacturing applications at the MT360 Conference taking place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara in Santa Clara, California, and scheduled for June 18-20.
Read more: Mazak Brings the Future of Manufacturing to MT360
Peers & Profiles
Discussing AGVs with JMP Solutions' Rob Frappier
JMP Solutions is a leader in industrial automation and technology, headquartered in London, Ontario. They have 15 business units across Canada and the United States providing engineering and turnkey solutions in process automation, control system integration, information and MES, automation and robotic systems, material handling, networking and security, and automated guided vehicles.
With respect to the latter, Drives & Control Solutions was able to table a few questions with Rob Frappier, Director of Automated Guided Vehicles and Branch Manager of JMP Solutions Control Systems Office in Cambridge, Ontario. Frappier was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule to provide some insight into the industry and his work with JMP Solutions. Frappier received his diploma in Robotics and Automation in 2000, returning to school in 2008 to earn his Bachelor of Science. He began his career in mechanical design for Automation Tooling Systems.
Yaskawa: VFD Panels and Short Circuit Current
If you ignore the short circuit current rating (SCCR) of an industrial panel it might just go away anyway. By go away I mean that the panel might just self-destruct.
If the available current or energy that reaches the panel in the event of a short circuit in the panel exceeds the levels that the panel can safely interrupt or contain, that energy has to go somewhere.
It is the unpredictability of what will happen first that makes an insufficient SCCR so dangerous. Maybe the circuit breaker will explode while trying to open or maybe not open at all because the internals have welded shut? What happens then?Latest Articles
Stay Resilient Against Resonance with AC Drives Adaptive Tuning
By: Brian Fast, Senior Project Manager, Rockwell Automation
It can be a scary moment on the plant floor: A machine starts shrieking and shaking so violently, you think it might break.
This incident can result from mechanical resonances caused by a load attached to a motor. Many design factors attribute to the resonances such as physical size, material selection, and instillation procedures. And while workers can usually make a control adjustment to resume production, resonance issues have lasting consequences on your machines and your business.
Turbines or Electric Drive Systems for Pipeline Compressors: The Long-Term Gain
In this article the consideration of electrical drive systems and their benefits over turbines for use in Oil& Gas operations is examined. For this consideration we review an article first published in 2016 by Gunther Schwarz and Hans Keller, members of Siemens AG.
Schwarz and Keller note that turbines have traditionally been used to drive processing machines, but here we focus primarily on the concerns regarding turbine use for driving centrifugal compressors for pipeline compressions. In Canada pipeline discussion is a common topic among the industry and the public, and a common concern is often the low efficiency levels and high emissions that are associated with this operation. In 2016 Canada had 73,000km’s of pipeline and thus ensuring efficient compression over such distances is critical to maintaining a cost-effective operation and ensuring environmental concerns are accounted for.
Yaskawa: Matrix Drives Reduce Energy Costs for Asphalt Transport System
A material handling application is generating about $1,500 per year in electrical savings rather than dissipating the regenerative energy as heat. Additional equipment life cycle savings are also anticipated as a result of the simplified electrical and mechanical designs. These benefits are realized because of the application of the U1000 Industrial Matrix Drive.
In spring 2016, Maxam Inc. of Kansas City, MO and Yaskawa America Inc. developed an asphalt transporter system for Gallagher Asphalt in Thornton, IL. The Maxam Transporter™ asphalt mass transfer system is a fully integrated asphalt distribution product that is designed to fill and evenly distribute asphalt into individual load-out silos. The Gallagher Asphalt system’s motor-driven transporter features an 8-ton high-speed material transfer vessel and recharging storage vessel.
Conveyor systems and their inefficient motors were removed and eliminated from the original transporter system. The old drag slat system was a steel floor conveyor that used chains and required additional power due to conveyor plate heating. The existing 200-ton asphalt storage silos were retrofitted with the asphalt transport system. The new transporter replaced a complex system of asphalt material conveyors.
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