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Festo freeze frame
4th Quarter 2009, Festo
South African photographer Paul Godard and Festo are prototyping a dolly cart to automate time-lapse photographic sequences that incorporate a dynamic vantage point. The project involves the development ...

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Sauer-Danfoss adds PLUS+1 inverter
4th Quarter 2009
The new PLUS+1 Inverter MI06 from Sauer-Danfoss is the first in a complete range of products designed to improve the efficiency and drive performance of AC motors. The new inverter series brings improved ...

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Drives of the future
4th Quarter 2009
Varispeed has introduced Yaskawa’s A1000 top-of-the-range drive, designed for flexibility, reliability and energy efficient power transfer. Incorporating tomorrow’s technology today, the A1000 is one ...

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Safe starts and stops
3rd Quarter 2009
The start and stop profiles built into AuCom’s MVS soft starter have been designed to prevent the harmful effects of potentially dangerous hydraulic transients

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Dashing drives shape Sprinter
3rd Quarter 2009, Nidec Industrial Automation Southern Africa
More than 800 AC drives have been installed in the new 'Sprinter' production facility in DaimlerChrysler’s Ludwigsfelde plant, near Berlin. All drives above 1,1 kW used in the new factory were supplied ...

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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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