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These tips will help you explore the latest innovation in variable frequency drives in an easy to read manner.

With instant previews, configurable product options and 3D CAD downloads, the motion control manufacturer gives engineers the tools they need to accelerate their design process

Trap filters are a common solution for managing drive harmonics, but matrix drives can provide additional benefits for the user without the need for peripheral equipment and costs.

As manufacturing companies strive for higher Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), the emerging trend driven by the IIoT technologies to collect and utilize useful feedback from a machine, or from an entire manufacturing line, can be critical to unlocking the potential of the equipment.

A coordinate frame is a point of reference that defines the six degrees of freedom (DoF) in a PLCopen controller. A programmer needs to know how the different coordinate frames interact and which ones are important to understand.

Though not a complete list, following are some tried-and-true methods some have unintentionally used to destroy variable frequency drives (VFDs). Avoid the following situations to help your VFD live a long and fruitful life.

Drives with embedded pump functions can provide advantages.

Making use of the inputs and outputs on a VFD can prove very beneficial to an application.

By using an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) gateway, or a remotely-controlled PC, critical how-to skill-based training can be made available to engineering students anywhere there’s an Internet connection.

A building automation system (BAS) is only as smart as the devices that are connected to it.