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Microcontrollers delight designers
3rd Quarter 2009
Advances in off-road vehicle control. New microcontrollers offer additional key features to extend the Sauer-Danfoss PLUS+1 family of vehicle control solutions. The recent release of the Sauer-Danfoss ...

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Pairing up motor and drive
3rd Quarter 2009
Bonfiglioli’s servo solutions. Combining Bonfiglioli’s BTD or BCR servomotors with Active Cube Series frequency converters provides a well-matched drive solution since the mathematical model of the motor ...

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Fault protection uses fibre-optics
3rd Quarter 2009
Electrical engineering specialist Moeller has been developing new products to meet the requirements of engineers working towards increased wind turbine generator outputs. In the field of arc fault protection ...

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Schneider emulates Hydra
3rd Quarter 2009, Schneider Electric South Africa
Control and signalling component leader Schneider Electric has introduced multiple-headed spring return pushbuttons within its Harmony XB4 metal and Harmony XB5 plastic ranges. The new double and triple-headed ...

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Integrated linear actuator and drive
3rd Quarter 2009
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions has introduced the MotoDrive PDE Captive Linear Actuator. The MotoDrive comes with an integrated chopper drive forming a compact system for precision motion control applications. ...

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Mechatronic modules position precisely
3rd Quarter 2009, Tectra Automation
Two new eLine Compact Modules have been added to Bosch Rexroth’s range of cost-effective pre-assembled linear solutions. The eCKK is fitted with an eLINE ball screw and the eCKR with toothed belt drive. ...

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Single cable drive solution cuts costs
3rd Quarter 2009, SEW-EURODRIVE
The SEW-Eurodrive mechatronic drive solution MOVIGEAR was introduced to satisfy the complex requirements demanded of horizontal conveyor technology in a wide range of industries, such as automotive, the ...

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Drive family with sixth sense
2nd Quarter 2009, Ana-Digi Systems
The SD700 variable speed drive can take pre-emptive corrective action before the drive trips

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JTI and CHI power up savings
2nd Quarter 2009
JT International (JTI) invested in a 660 kVA standby generator for its plant in Wadeville

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SEW's Olympic gold
2nd Quarter 2009, SEW-EURODRIVE
Following seven years of preparation, the XXIXth Olympic Summer Games were officially opened at exactly 8.08 pm on 8 August, 2008 at the Beijing National Stadium. China’s long-held dream of holding the ...

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Drive has high velocity loop bandwith
2nd Quarter 2009
Claimed by the manufacturer to be the first all-digital industrial drive with a velocity loop bandwidth of 800 Hz, the Danaher Motion S200 servo drive is a compact high performance servo drive. The high ...

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MCC interfacing the smart way
2nd Quarter 2009
The Modbus remote terminal unit (RTU) gateway is the latest addition to Moeller’s range of fieldbus couplers for SmartWire – Moeller’s flat-cable connection system that connects motor starters directly ...

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Energy efficiency initiative saves R4m pa
2nd Quarter 2009, ABB South Africa, Industrial Automation
Motor and drive supplier ABB claims that a new fan system powered and controlled by its energy-efficient motors and drives has reduced the annual energy bill of a Swedish hospital by R4m ($400 000) and ...

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Schneider Electric scales up plug-and-play
1st Quarter 2009, Schneider Electric South Africa
Schneider Electric has performed thermal and mechanical studies and the assemblies have been tested and approved under full load conditions

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maxon celebrates 5th (Martian) birthday
1st Quarter 2009, DNH Technologies
Even after five years, the six-wheeled vehicles are still travelling around Mars and relaying exciting data back to Earth

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Software simplifies drive design and commissioning
1st Quarter 2009, Festo
Designing a positioning drive system from scratch and successfully commissioning it is an involved and time-consuming process which poses challenges for many engineers.    Appropriate drive technologies ...

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China high power AC drives market across US$1 billion
1st Quarter 2009
Towards the end of 2008 ARC reported that robust growth continued in 2007 for the high power AC drives market in China riding on the back of another year of double digit growth in GDP of the country. ...

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maxxon introduces new modular spindle drives
1st Quarter 2009, DNH Technologies
Mechanical engineers often face the task of converting rotational movements into powerful linear movements. The associated development costs can be reduced by using maxon’s modular spindle drives. The ...

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EMX3 saves CHI from salt mines
1st Quarter 2009
CHI Engineered Solutions recently received an order in excess of R6 million from consultants Le Roux Boutel and Associates for the supply of a motor control centre for the control of UraMin Namibia’s ...

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Ana-Digi pitches in for airscrew shot peener
Fourth Quarter 2008, Ana-Digi Systems
Ana-Digi Systems was contracted to convert a manual shot-blasting machine into a fully-automated four-axis system for precision shot peening of aluminium airscrew (propeller) blades. The existing framework ...

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