Managing rising energy costs The Climate change levy changed on 6 April 2013 to enable discounts of 90% for energy intensive industry users achieving their energy saving targets. According to the Carbon Trust, running motors and drives uses almost two thirds of the electricity consumed by UK industry. Altivar 61 variable speed drives were developed […]
Ten good reasons for visiting an exhibition Having spare time is increasingly rare for many engineers and designers, so the simplest solution is to decide not to go to that trade fair. After all, you won’t have to get the boss to okay it and you won’t have to arrange transport to get there. So […]
Mitsubishi Electric UK has updated its pulse output module with a new special function module for the FX3 family, the FX3U-1PG is a single axis positioning module. The new unit is an efficient single-axis positioning module for controlling either step drives or servo drives (by external regulator) with a pulse chain. It has […]
Omron Industrial Automation has recently opened a new European Automation Centre (ATC) in Barcelona, Spain, to provide specialist support for its inverter drives and other automation products. The facility includes laboratories for developing driving programming software, testing servo applications, developing robot control software, testing network configurations, and setting up individual customer tests in specific […]
Leading the way to energy savings, Schneider Electric has become one of the few companies in the industry to receive accredited certification to the new ISO 50001 standard for energy management systems. The accreditation is the result of its commitment to continuously improve energy efficiency across 15 of its largest UK sites, and has saved […]