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From Beer to Hand Sanitizer: Adapting Manufacturing for COVID-19

The world stands still as COVID-19 continues to turn it upside down. No more social contact. No more ‘business as usual.’ In fact, no more ‘normal’ for many. Now, we stay home to save lives. But there are some brave souls who cannot stop like doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. And, hidden in the background we find manufacturers, machine builders and their suppliers. These are the people responsible for producing food, life-saving medicines, masks and wipes.

 

 

 

Unpack, Connect, Go

Unpack, Connect, Go

In times of increasing uncertainty, it is becoming a key criterion for many companies to be able to quickly adapt their production. Flexibility is not only required of employees – the systems also need to be flexibly transformable to new production processes. New solutions have to facilitate easy and quick adaptation and just as fast commissioning.

 

 

 

3 Ways to Protect a VFD Braking Resistor from Short-Circuit Failure

3 Ways to Protect a VFD Braking Resistor from Short-Circuit Failure

Energy overload situations can cause braking resistor failure, but is easily prevented with the right equipment and system design. In this article we’ll explain the cause of overload conditions and present three methods that will help you address this common problem. After all, you want to protect your VFD and related equipment in order to prevent unhappy customers and co-workers that experience a system failure.

 

 

 

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Pipelines: Improve Energy Usage and More With the Right VFD

The benefits related to energy savings when using variable frequency drives (VFDs) in pipeline pump and compressor stations are well established. Drives provide the precise control needed for increasing or decreasing flow along a pipeline. The result is greater efficiency and energy savings than an across-the-line motor starter that requires the use of control valves to manage flow.

 

 

 

Application Notes: Power Off VFD Function

Application Notes: Power Off VFD Function

If the main power is lost to a VFD while the motor is under load, the DC bus of the VFD drops at an accelerated rate compared to no load conditions.  When the DC bus reaches a low level, the VFD would shut down, disabling the output modulation and releasing the motor to coast to a stop.  The motor coasting to a stop under the loss of main input power may not be of concern for many VFD applications.

 

 

 

Industry Insights with Owen and Shane Carnegie, Looking Back at SPS 2019

Industry Insights with Owen and Shane Carnegie, Looking Back at SPS 2019

With the spring tradeshow season coming upon us, and discussions beginning to come up about the new innovations that will be showcased this year it is important to also slow down and think about the innovations that were unveiled last year. We are often so focused on what is coming that we don’t really take the time to consider the full impacts of what we only recently learned about.