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Bringing Sensorless BLDC Motor Control to Low-Cost Applications
Electric motors play a role in almost every part of our daily lives. They run our dishwashers and washing machines, cool our houses, and are essential to modern vehicles. The Brushless DC (BLDC) motor has been the motor of choice for many high- to mid-range systems needing both constant or variable speed and high reliability. With a few Hall Effect sensors and a controller, the BLDC motor becomes relatively easy to control. <Click here to read the full article>

Paper Cup Machine Manufacturer Uses Servo Drive Technology to Shape Greater Flexibility and Productivity
The paper cup is one of the most common containers we encounter every day. Yet, as with many of the seemingly simple packages we routinely use, the best forming machines to make paper cups and paperboard canisters utilize advanced engineering and system design, combined with high performance components that can sustain production of thousands of containers per hour, 24 hours a day.<Click here to read the full article>

More Than 5,000 Gearmotors for Thermal Solar Plant
Solar thermal installations built around a central tower have long been limited to mere tech demonstrations and R&D facilities, until now. In conjunction with NORD Drive Systems, Gemasolar, located in the south of France, is now making the leap to full-scale production sites. In order to ensure precise and reliable operation of the plant´s mobile heliostats that focus the sunlight, the vast array comprising of 2,650 mirrors is equipped with 5,300 robust gearmotors supplied by Nord Drive Systems.<Click here to read the full article>

Industry News

Select the Optimized Linear System with Web-Based Sizing and Selection Tool
Thomson has introduced Linear MOTIONEERING 2.0. The latest version of the company’s Web-based linear motion system sizing and selection tool, Linear MOTIONEERING 2.0 enables OEM and factory automation users to optimize machine design and operation by walking them through an intuitive process that delivers all the data necessary to make a quick system selection in minutes. <Click here to read the full article>

Support for Multiple Motion Buses Now Available from a Single Kollmorgen AKD Servo Drive
Kollmorgen’s AKD servo drives now support the functionality of the base analog drive, indexing drive, CANopen drive and EtherCAT drive all from a single drive SKU. This enables printing, packaging, converting, medical and other machine builders to benefit from more efficient bench testing and prototyping, while enabling them to smoothly transition from one bus type to another. <Click here to read the full article>

Three-Phase BLDC Fan Motor Driver is Industry’s First with Resistor-Programmable, Sensorless Sinusoidal Architecture
Microchip Technology, Inc., a provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, has expanded its sinusoidal, sensorless, three-phase BLDC fan motor driver portfolio with the MTD6505, the industry’s first standalone, resistor-programmable driver that enables the selection of multiple back-EMF coefficient ranges. <Click here to read the full article>

Zero-Max Right Angle Gear Drives Provide Directional Motion Change
Motion system designers looking for a smooth operating, quiet right angle gear drive will find Zero-Max Crown gear drives a well suited choice. They feature heat treated AGMA Class 10 spiral bevel gears and non-magnetic stainless steel shafts providing long term, maintenance free operation. <Click here to read the full article>

Eaton Wins $27 Million Electrical Contract to Support Design and Construction of Third Set of Locks in Panama Canal Expansion Program
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corp. has been awarded a three-year, $27 million contract to provide the equipment design, electrical assemblies and engineering services for the distribution and control of electrical power across the Atlantic and Pacific sites of the expanded Panama Canal. <Click here to read the full article>

Mirus’ SOLV Saved SkyVenture Montreal Time and Money on Their Harmonic Solution
The owners of SkyVenture, an indoor free-fall simulator, were building a new dedicated facility for its first Canadian location in Montreal. The SkyVenture simulator is a large-scale wind-tunnel that requires the use of four 350 HP adjustable speed drives (ASDs) to run blowers that generate a powerful 175 km per hour airstream. <Click here to read the full article>

Resource Guide

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