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Total Cost of Ownership and Linear Motion
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| Company: | Bosch Rexroth Corp. |
| You may not realize it, but many of the products you buy actually cost a lot more than the initial price you paid for them. For example, let’s say you paid $25,000 for your vehicle. How far do you drive and how many gallons of gasoline do you use each week? How much does gasoline cost in your area? How often do you change the oil, rotate the tires, or have other maintenance work done? Over a 5-year period, these expenses, all a necessary part of operating your vehicle, can easily add up to $12,000 — or approximately 50 percent of the price of the vehicle. |
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Protecting Variable Frequency Drives
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| Company: | Alltec Corp. |
| Sophisticated and highly susceptible microprocessor based electronics and data communication networks are integrated across every sector of today’s fast paced business world. Preserving these mission-critical systems from the damages of surges, spikes, and transients ensures that these systems are protected from equipment destruction, disruption in service, and from costly downtime. How to properly stage these SPDs can be as important as actually making the decision to purchase them. |
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10 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Custom Gearmotors
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| Company: | Bison Gear & Engineering |
| A custom gearmotor is one that meets your particular application specifications. It has the correct mechanical and electrical interfaces, fits within the envelope available, meets your performance, maintenance, lifetime and aftermarket criteria while it also fits within your budget. There are many questions and considerations involved in specifying the correct gearmotor for your application. |
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Building a Reliable VFD System
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| Company: | Belden Inc. |
| A Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) regulates the speed of a 3-phase AC electric motor by
controlling the frequency and voltage of the power it delivers to the motor. Today, these
devices (also known as Adjustable Speed Drives or Variable Speed Drives) are becoming
prevalent in a wide range of applications throughout industry, from motion control
applications to ventilation |
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Improving gearmotor efficiency
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| Company: | Bison Gear & Engineering |
| With the concerns over
the growing energy
crisis, the efficiency
of electric motors has become
an important, timely topic.
The reason: electric motors consume from 63% to 70% of
the electricity used in domestic manufacturing, and represent
23% of the total electricity consumption in the U.S.
However, most motor efficiency
efforts to date have focused on
only about 10% of the total
electric motor population. |
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Shaft Speed Monitoring – Overland Conveyor System
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| Company: | Electro Sensors |
| Unwanted slowdown or stoppage of a conveyor can result in costly and even dangerous conditions. Product waste, machine damage, process downtime, and unsafe working conditions can all be attributed to conveyor failure. Bulk raw materials such as grain or rocks may be damp or wet – adding significant weight to the conveyor belt and leading to belt slippage or slowdown. |
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Magnetic Alternative to Optical Encoding
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| The unique advantage of magnetic encoder technologies over other encoder technologies comes from the fact that magnetic encoders do not require moving parts such as bearings or seals, the main cause of encoder failure. |
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