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In recognition of customer experience excellence, this is the 5th year in a row that Yaskawa America has been honored with this award.

GA800 Variable Speed Drive was selected as the honorable mention of the 2020 Control Engineering "Engineers' Choice Award".

Last fall Drives & Control Solutions had the opportunity to tour Yaskawa America’s primary low voltage drive production facility. The facility is located in  Buffalo Grove, IL, just outside of Chicago. Hosting both an assembly facility and roughly 100,000 sq/ft warehouse and distribution centre, the site is quite impressive, particularly considering the level of efficiency employed.
 

Design World user community has chosen their preferred suppliers for the latest Leadership in Engineering program, now in its 13th year.
 

With the current state of the internet and the interconnectivity of devices and equipment, it is in the best interest of any company that wants to optimize the productivity of their associates tasked with technical tasks to take a look at the eLearning available. eLearning offers a wonderful ROI due to its low cost, ease of access, skill-based objectives, and ability to customize to each viewer.
 

In a previous motion-sizing article, we reviewed how to properly specify a ballscrew-driven motion axis. Here we review how engineering teams can use a similar approach for sizing rack-and-pinion-based servomotor-driven axes on the same five-axis gantry. We’ll use manufacturer software to work through the application.

Yaskawa received the Highest Risk Control Award for the manufacturing sector of Columbus Insurance Ltd.

Sigma Trac II linear motor stages provide high performance turnkey linear motor solution

Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) store a plethora of information that can be easily accessed. Regardless of the connection method, traditional fieldbus or Industrial Ethernet, the main objective can be to retrieve that production data and use it to create information that helps transform and drive business strategies.

Additional answers provide more details about smartphone programming for variable frequency drives (VFDs).