Schneider Electric has launched its Lexium 32 range, comprising three servo drives and two servomotor types.
The simplified drive range comes in a compact book style and has been developed to meet OEM architectures, with advanced tuning features and motors with a wide machine inertia.
Applications span a range of machinery, including printing, textiles, packaging and material working and handling.
These new products also work with the new book-style Altivar 32 range of [...]
ABB drives’ influence in polymer production
Halcyon Drives has supplied an ABB industrial drive, set up in torque-control mode, to Kemira Chemicals of Bradford, a manufacturer of polymers for use in the water-treatment industries.
plant productivity improved by GE Proficy Accelerator
GE has launched the the Proficy Accelerator for Centerlining, enabling continuous improvement and resolution of problems due to variability, in a move to full process reliability and stability.
The goal of the solution is to reduce costs due to material losses and other waste from process and product variability, as well as increase throughput and yield.
It [...]
Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management has released Version 5.4 of its asset-management software, AMS Suite: Machinery Health Manager, which includes wireless access to spectral waveform vibration diagnostics.
AMS Machinery Manager v5.4 augments its presentation of predictive diagnostics from all types of mechanical assets and enables the integration of the CSI 6500 Machinery Health Monitor protection and prediction system [...]
GE Proficy software used in Cliffstar juice factories
Cliffstar has implemented GE Intelligent Platforms’ Proficy software to increase the efficiency of production lines in its juice factories.
Heliovolt choose GE Proficy Software to control its solar PV module
GE Intelligent Platforms has announced that Heliovolt has implemented the Proficy Software suite in its thin-film solar PV module manufacturing plant.
ABB ACS355
ABB has renamed the ACS350 general machinery drive the ACS355 and has incorporated additional features to maximise its effectiveness for machinery applications.
Siemens Drive
The Siemens Industry Drive Technologies Division has launched a Flender vertical mill drive that can be used to crush raw material and cement in the building-materials or coal industries.
The EMPP (electrical motor and two planetary gears) vertical mill drive prevents load surges arising from short-term power interruptions and optimises performance between drive and mill, [...]
Schneider supply automation and control equipment to DB
Schneider Electric is to supply automation and control equipment to DB Controls, which has been commissioned to supply automation, motor control and a Scada system for a new waste recycling plant.
Why Pizza Hut Can Save energy costs ?
An 85 per cent reduction in electricity costs is being achieved at Pizza Hut’s Watford Dome branch following the installation of a 1.5kW and a 3kW ABB drive on the air-extraction cooker-hood system.
