Motors & Drives

The UK-ALUMOTOR consortium has received an award from the Driving Electric Revolution Challenge fund - through UK Research and Innovation - to establish a UK supply chain for electric machines: leveraging manufacturing expertise to deliver next generation sustainable electric motors.

Partnership with Renishaw makes a significant contribution to the success of JUSTEK Inc. - a motion control component manufacturer based in Korea. JUSTEK has developed a range of customisable Direct-Drive (DD) motors using Renishaw’s high performance optical position encoders, including the miniature ATOM RCDM rotary encoder system, for the FPD and semiconductor/electronics industries.

The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the resilience of the most robust supply chains and has ushered in a new way of working. This has changed how companies operate in an unprecedented manner. Here’s how motor and drive manufacturer, WEG kept going during the first few months of the pandemic to maintain customer supply and help in the COVID-19 fight.

The last thing a city needs is for its critical infrastructure to be affected by a power failure. That includes its city hall. That’s why E. Van Wingen, a Belgium-based manufacturer of high-end engine-based power solutions, turned to WEG, to assist with a secure back-up power supply for the Stadhuis, Belgium.

Haozhi Mechanical and Electrical (Haozhi), based in China, is a company focused on direct-drive technology for machine tool and robotics applications. Direct-Drive (DD) motors are electric motors that directly transmit power to the application without the use of mechanical reduction elements such as gears, pulleys, chains or belts. DD technology for linear motors and rotary tables has matured in recent years.

When procuring a geared motor, technical buyers at machine and plant manufacturers must consider numerous aspects to ensure that the purchased technology ultimately guarantees high plant availability and an optimum cost-benefit ratio. Here, Marek Lukaszczyk, European and Middle East Marketing Manager at WEG, explains how to ensure a geared motor unit best suits your application.

Drinking water is scarce in the Atacama region of Chile. In response to this challenge, WEG has partnered with a Chilean sanitation company to provide electric motors and soft starters at a desalination plant - a facility that will continuously supply quality drinking water to over 200,000 people.

Around 50,000 people in the UK live with a spinal cord injury. To those who are injured, regaining movement is life changing - and advances in exoskeleton technology are helping to renew their independence. Here, Stewart Goulding, Managing Director of Electromechanical Systems (EMS), shares insight into the motor technology powering rehabilitation exoskeleton systems.

If predictions are correct, by 2021 25 billion devices will be connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). Here, Marek Lukaszczyk, European Marketing Manager at WEG explains where geared motor maintenance fits into this paradigm. Geared motor units are the drive technology heavyweights needed to handle a large amount of data, power and torque. They provide the necessary motion sequences in machines and systems, helping to ensure that production lines run smoothly. If there is a fault with a geared motor, the knock-on effects can be very costly for businesses.

WEG has published its latest guide to help maintenance staff keep geared motor maintenance and lifecycle costs to a minimum. Titled 'What maintenance staff need to know about geared motors', the guide includes a useful maintenance schedule checklist whichcan be downloaded for free here.