A Diverse Drives Market Depends On PE Engineers

Focus:

The market for industrial drives encompasses a wide range of motor and motion control applications. From fractional horsepower to 1000+ hp motors with widely varying voltage levels and wide-ranging control requirements, industrial drives must serve a broad spectrum of needs in powering all types of industrial machinery. On top of this diversity, there are some common market pressures that add to the challenge of designing and manufacturing industrial drives. These include demands for high efficiency, high reliability, long life expectancy, small size, electromagnetic compliance (EMC), and low cost. In this article, executives from Emerson and Rockwell Automation discuss how power electronics (PE) engineers who develop industrial drives are working to evaluate and deploy the latest generation of power semiconductors, and to apply new topology options such as active front ends. (See pages 41-47 of the source PDF.)

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David G. Morrison, Editor, How2Power.com, Power Systems Design Europe, Mar 03 2012

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