Altivar drives saving energy at British Airways

Schneider Electric’s Altivar 212 Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) have been used to control the condenser fans, which provide chilled water for the flight training simulators and the building’s air conditioning system. Within the application, there are nine flatbed condensing units, each of which has ten fans. The VSDs have been installed to regulate each condensing […]

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Altivar 71 lft inverter drives for lift applications

Altivar Lift drives have been designed in close collaboration with lift manufacturers, installers and maintenance engineers to offer very specific characteristics.  They incorporate the wealth of expertise acquired by Schneider Electric over the years in other applications, machines and processes where drive quality is paramount.   They feature many application-specific functions such as Power Removal […]

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Control Freaks take the biscuit

          Automating manual processes is far more challenging than people imagine, particularly when the process has defied engineers for years.  Having solved the mechanical problems of producing biscuit crumbs, breakfast cereal and snack foods system integrator Control Freaks of Spalding in Lincs. developed an integrated control scheme to guarantee consistent results. […]

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Omron 3G3LX inverter drive for lifts

  Experience & Comfort for lifts   Omron’s LX Series 3G3LX inverters utilise dedicated lift software functions developed from their extensive experience in the application and selection of inverter drives for lift control.  Designed for more than 5 million starts at 150% output current, the LX can control gearless or geared systems.   The LX […]

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