Decentralized control from SEW-Eurodrive, Lyman, S.C. (www.seweurodrive.com), takes advantage of motor-installation provisions in NEC code (Article 430.53 (c))to use fewer branch circuits, which ...

Motor control centers (MCCs) were first introduced in 1937 as a way to conserve wall and/or floor space in industrial facilities. Before 1960, wall-mounted motor starters were used even if only a few ...

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its phases. In a ...

Graceful Shutdown: Ensuring the motor and controller are shut down safely when the application is stopped. If the application operates on a multicore MCU/DSP/FPGA, an appropriate inter-core ...

How does the NEC control your signaling and control wiring requirements? Today's industrial facilities use a host of control circuits for motor control, instrumentation signals, and plant shutdown ...

Consistency is a term that applies as much to street/strip Mustangs as it does to all-out race cars. It's due to the trickle-down effect, and one such component to help anyone be more consistent in a ...

Sophisticated motor control is no longer the sole province of custom hardware and proprietary control techniques. Advances in powerful, low-cost digital-signal controllers (DSCs) let designers use ...

Industrial companies have put a greater focus in recent years on addressing a top electrical safety risk: arc flash events. Arc flashes can be created by a wide range of actions, from a dropped tool, ...

This application note presents the application of Z8 Encore for sensorless brushless DC motor that features an on-chip integrated array of application, specific analog and digital modules. It ...

Motor drivers and their development tools deliver advanced features to improve performance and reduce design complexity.

In the years since our vintage Fords were new, many items of convenience once optional have become standard equipment. Air conditioning, AM/FM stereo, tilt steering column, and even power windows have ...