Motors & Drives

A servo motor-driven NC rotary table with a very large through-hole has been introduced by Kitagawa to facilitate accurate milling and drilling of tube- and shaft-type components on machining centres and manual mills. The competitively priced unit, designated TG530,is available in the UK from 1st MTA, Salisbury.

By replacing up to six solenoid valves in a single unit, the Componenti Series 610 Water Diverter now available from Becktech cost-effectively simplifies maintenance and installation while reducing scale. It is self-cleaning, ensuring no loss of dosing accuracy in routing water from a boiler to mixing stations in vending machine or other applications.

NORD Drivesystems has added an external 24 V control input option to its entry level and low-cost SK2x0E motor mounted decentralised inverter. Previously only available on the higher specification SK2x5E series, which also includes standard features of input status LEDs, setpoint potentiometers and rectifier integrated brake control, the external control option allows the possibility for inverter parameter set-up without mains power, and control availability (including position interrogation) under power failure conditions where a backup supply can be used.

Excelsys Technologies, market leading specialists in the supply of high-efficiency, low profile, user configurable, modular power supplies now offers ruggedised versions of its Xgen power supply range suitable for COTS/MIL applications and extreme industrial installations.

A new motor, variable speed drive and control system designed, manufactured and installed by Softstart UK is providing Perkins Engines with enhanced facilities for testing and evaluating diesel engine fuel pump systems at its Global Engine Development centre in Peterborough.

Faulhaber high precision ball screws can now be integrated directly with their range of DC-Micro motors, Brushless DC-motors or Stepper motors.

WEG is providing global Oil and Gas markets with the highest levels of energy efficiency and protection in hazardous environments, following the launch of its new W22X range of flameproof electric motors, which are being shown for the first time in the UK at Offshore Europe 2011.

BEI Kimco Magnetics, a company of Custom Sensors & Technologies (CST), Inc., recently met the challenging Brushless DC Motor requirements utilized in a Down Hole Oil Exploration application.

As The Drive & Control Company, Bosch Rexroth is a leading force in stage technology. By providing solutions to meet the most sophisticated requirements, stage directors can be confident of an enhanced experience for the audience.

Most of the current high power semiconductors are optimized for switching frequencies between 4 and 8 kHz. Today, however, more and more applications require frequencies of 10 kHz and higher. New power modules specifically designed for higher frequencies can now fill that gap.