Schneider Electric has announced the launch of Energy University, a vendor-neutral, online educational community that provides the fundamentals needed to implement successful energy efficient solutions scaling various applications. The courses are designed to provide anyone involved in the decision-making, management, planning, design,
Commissioned by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the second edition of the Control Techniques Drives and Controls Handbook, edited by Professor Bill Drury, is to be launched on 6 July this year. The handbook gives an insight into the technology
The 2009 edition of ABB's drives and motors catalogue is now available for end-users, system integrators and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). The 48 page catalogue is free and can by downloaded directly from www.abb.co.uk/energy or a hard copy is available from freephone
Danfoss Drives and its partners now offer online ordering of the VLT Micro Drive. Customers can order customised drives through a centralised platform and take delivery from their local distributor. The benefits include minimum processing time for orders, direct follow-up and the
An Indian manufacturer of biscuit production machinery is using ABB drives to ensure its customers can produce high quality, consistent biscuits. Located just outside Mumbai, Bake-O Nomic is one of India's leading OEMs of biscuit manufacturing lines, producing three fully automated biscuit
ABB's three-tiered variable speed drives service programme is said to help users prevent downtime and production loss. The three levels of service – DrivesAdvantage, DrivesActive and DrivesActive+ – enable each customer to choose from a range of services that can be tailored
ABB's new Drives & Motors Catalogue provides technical details of ABB's range of low voltage AC drives from 0.18 to 2,800 kW and motors from 0.06 to 710 kW. It also presents ABB's range of DC and medium voltage AC drives. Easy-to-use tables
Silverteam will be using the Drives & Controls show to launch the high power versions, 160kW to 400kW, of the Hitachi SJ700 variable speed drive – small and medium sized version having been introduced in 2007. The SJ700 is a radical development of
The 2004 Michelin Challenge for sustainable mobility was held last week in Shanghai. More than 150 vehicles took part with 70 of them electric-driven, of which 46 were built in China. The high number of battery electric, hybrid-electric and fuel cell-electric cars
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