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Read the online version if links don't work in this Motion Control, Motors & Drives Update. | | | August 2009 | Sponsor: AMCI | RMS vs Peak 
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Aerotech's Automation Control Solutions brochure highlights high-performance controls, software, amplifiers, motors, and more. | | | In this Issue |  | | Featured Articles | Looking at electric drive efficiency
Control Engineering, July 2009
By Frank J. Bartos
Variable-frequency drives (VFDs) provide dramatic energy savings in myriad applications with varying loads and speeds. While power and energy savings are key benefits, VFD efficiency is also of interest because drives can experience significant efficiency losses at partial load operation-much like electric motors. Motors For Dusty Atmospheres – A Potentially Explosive Development
Process Industry Informer, July 2009
By Steve Ruddel, Drives & Motors GB
Industries dealing with solids handling, like food, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, must now use hazardous area motors, like the oil and gas industries have for many years. Combustible dust can be just as explosive as gas and needs to be treated accordingly. Motor efficiency: be ready for the new classifications
Design Products & Applications, June 2009
By Les Hunt
Next year, motor manufacturers and users must begin to assimilate new efficiency classifications, as IEC 60034-30 implementation is rolled out in stages, between 2011 and 2017. This ‘harmonised’ standard removes the existing Eff ‘x’ classifications, which have been with us for the past ten years or more, and will avoid the need to test equipment against the plethora of existing international standards. Servo Motor Sizing Concepts
Design News, June 2009
By Matt Pelletier, Yaskawa Electric America
Servo motor sizing is the process of selecting the best motor for a servo application. Misconceptions engineers can fall into when selecting a motor include: sizing based on the horsepower rating of the presently installed motor or sizing based exclusively on the application's torque requirements. FPGAs enable energy-efficient motor control
Industrial Embedded Systems, May 2009
By Jason Chiang, Altera
Motor control strategies vary according to the type of motor and the control algorithms used. To build an adaptable motor controller, an FPGA provides a flexible platform as a starting point to which designers can add the necessary IP to suit their needs.
| | Browse more articles on the Motion Control, Motors & Drives portal. | Visit our Automation Portals | Our Automation Portals organize information on various topics and include content published on Automation.com as well as other industry websites. Each portal includes new products, company news, articles, white papers, application stories, training, resources, events, and more. Visit these one-stop sites for all your automation information | Live News Feed | | | | | Sponsored Product by Bison Gear | | | Product Announcements | | | Other Product Announcements | Browse more Product Announcements on the Motion Control, Motors & Drives portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | White Papers | Mechatronics Machine Design Guide
By National Instruments
With this comprehensive machine design guide, learn step-by-step best practices for designing your next machine. Throughout the guide, in-depth application examples illustrate the approaches successful designers have implemented. Inexpensive Methods to Measure the Performance Characteristics of a Linear Motion Device
By Rob Steves, Zaber Technologies
Once you've determined the requirements of your linear motion application, how can you qualify a linear motion product to ensure it meets your application's needs? This article describes a series of tests that can be performed by the average user to quickly determine the most important performance characteristics of linear motion systems. Motion Control Cards For Machine Design
By Erlendur Kristjansson, Performance Motion Devices
This white paper looks at the different motion control card form factors, their fit into different machine requirements, and how they affect the outcome of a machine design. The paper also examines the interaction between the motion cards and the system architectures to illustrate design trade-offs. Integrating Next Generation Motion Control with Programmable Automation Controllers
By GE Fanuc
White paper discusses recent trends that have led to the need for PACs, benefits of integrating the latest generation of motion control with PACs, and the critical capabilities OEMs should assess when selecting such an integrated automation control system. Simplified Motion Control Increases Agility of Pouch/Pillow Packaging Machines
By Mark Traxler, Omron Electronics
Motion control techniques for pouch and pillow packaging help achieve a measure of success, but recent advances in motion controllers and servos made it possible to do so without high-cost hardware and complex integration, programming and operation.
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| | Resources & Literature | ServoSoft database adds gear motors
The gearbox shaft loads form adds new charts for axial, radial and tilting moment loads, clearly showing the maximum and nominal ratings as well as the application profiles. Parker publishes guide to linear slides and micrometer stages
The 144-page guide covers manual ball slides, crossed roller slides, micrometer stages, and micrometer-driven rotary stages. igus publishes continuous-flex cables catalog
Catalog has an easy-to-use quick reference guide, application examples from a wide range of industries, and details on the latest Chainflex cables. Thomson offers web-based gearhead sizing and selection tool
MOTIONEERING helps machine builders quickly specify the right gearhead to satisfy specific application performance requirements. Animatics publishes Motion System catalog
Catalog includes eight product segments detailing SmartMotor specifications, Fieldbus protocols, brake options, connectivity, peripherals, power supplies, Gearheads and software.
| Browse more resources and literature on the Motion Control, Motors & Drives portal.
| | Application Stories | Electric screw actuators improve bagging system
By Tolmatic
Thiele Technologies, a maker of packaging equipment, installed four custom electric screw linear actuators on its filling and sealing operation to precisely position incoming empty bags. The bagging system now automatically compensates for variations in bag dimensions and eliminates manual setup when changing bag sizes. Rexroth controls VisionPak Machine
By Bosch-Rexroth
CP Packaging’s VisionPak uses an integrated Rexroth electric drive and control, pneumatics, and linear motion platform for an ultra-sanitary and precise deli meat packaging machine. Drives replace dampers to achieve immediate energy savings
Design Products & Applications, June 2009
Two modular ac drives from Control Techniques have not only produced immediate energy-savings on a previously mechanically damped fan application, but also paid for themselves in under a year DC drives improve Renolit Cramlington’s embossing line
Sprint Electric supplied 21 DC drives for retrofitting an obsolete embossing line for laminate manufacturing. The retrofit, re-commissioning of DC drives, and control system refurbishment was completed in two weeks. Pumping station doubles capacity
Control Engineering Europe, May 2009
When the process control of the pumping station at Parksluizen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was automated, an Emotron FDU variable speed drive for 690 V with 12 pulse power supply was included. Pumping capacity doubled and energy consumption was minimised.
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| | Featured Training | SERCOS Seminars
September 14, 2009 Minneapolis, MN
September 16, 2009 Atlanta, GA
Free one-day seminars on the latest advances for the SERCOS interface for motion, safety and I/O. Web Handling Seminar
September 16-17, 2009 Raleigh, NC
This seminar teaches the must-know areas of web handling including tension control, roller design and alignment, nips, guiding, wrinkling and spreading.
| Browse more training and seminar opportunities on the Motion Control, Motors & Drives portal.
| | Company & Organizational News | Machine safeguarding market confronting turbulence
Turbulence in the global market effectively put the brakes on the machine safeguarding market around the third quarter in 2008. Motor drives: Chinese buyers prefer European brands
European Design Engineer, July 2009
Even China doesn’t like its own cheap products! According to the results of a user survey compiled and analysed by IMS Research, Chinese users of motor drives tend to favour European brands, which were generally perceived to be industry experts offering premium quality products. ARC says low power AC drives market will grow slowly
Moderate growth will be due to investments in infrastructure and manufacturing industries worldwide, once financial stability is restored globally. Frost & Sullivan says Electric Drives market to increase
The electric drives market is anticipated to sustain its growth rates due to the need for infrastructural changes in chemical plants, especially across Eastern Europe. House approves NEMA premium motor rebate program
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce approved an amendment creating a NEMA Premium motor rebate program. The amendment approves $350 million to provide $25 per horse power rebate for NEMA Premium motors.
| Browse more company and organizational news on the Motion Control, Motors & Drives portal. | | Project News | Power Efficiency to supply MEC controls for ThyssenKrupp elevators
ThyssenKrupp will use the MEC as an energy saving option for customers purchasing repairs and modernization for elevator and escalator upgrades. ABB supplying electrical and automation to cement mills in Egypt
Equipment includes System 800xA for process control and integration, all medium and low voltage power distribution systems, transformers, and low and medium voltage motors and drives. ABB/GE consortium wins orders worth $80 million in Abu Dhabi
ABB and GE will supply electrical systems, motors, drive systems, services and compressors for new gas lift and gas injection facilities at the Asab and Sahil fields.
| Browse more project news on the Motion Control, Motors & Drives portal. | | Featured Events | Industrial Automation Vietnam
September 16-18, 2009 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The second Industrial Automation Vietnam show will be held in the brand new Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre (SECC).The show will be co-located with PIA Vietnam– an exhibition profiling plant & process engineering, instrumentation, measurement and testing, and analysis & laboratory technology. European M2M Summit
September 24, 2009 Cologne, Germany
Sessions will provide a compact overview of developments, applications and solutions in the Machine-to-Machine communication market. AIMCAL Fall Technical Conference
October 18-21, 2009 Amelia Island, Florida
The Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) Fall Technical Conference covers Coating/Laminating and Vacuum Web Coating. Automation Fair 2009
November 11-12, 2009 Anaheim, California
At this two-day event, attend in-depth technical sessions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Visit more than 100 exhibits and displays. Learn best practices at specialized industry forums.
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