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8 September 2025 An estimated 51% of motor failures are a result of bearing failures. The most common issue is insufficient lubrication. ABB’s David Blissett explains where… Read More
4 August 2025 You wouldn’t run your car without regular servicing, so why would you take a similar risk with critical assets such as drives, motors and generators?… Read More
22 May 2025 Proprietary standards and competing communications protocols have created an ecosystem where integrating different automation technologies is not always as easy as it could be. Read More
23 April 2025 Using drives to improve the efficiency of water industry processes is an important step on the path to net-zero. However, it is only a single… Read More
24 March 2025 Drives can increasingly take on some simple PLC functions, but for more complex automation there’s no substitute for a dedicated PLC, argues Carl Eely, ABB’s… Read More
24 February 2025 If a data centre goes down, the consequences can be dire. Outages can cost thousands of pounds every minute, and be catastrophic for people and… Read More
27 January 2025 There’s more to efficiency than simply turning down the speed of a motor. ABB’s Carl Turbitt explains how plant optimisation, and using a drive’s intelligent… Read More
23 December 2024 Digital twins create a replica of an object or system in a digital version of its environment. Liam Blackshaw, ABB’s UK product manager for LV… Read More
25 November 2024 It can take weeks to produce a PLC program from scratch for complex processes with many I/O points and HMIs. Carl Eely, an industrial automation… Read More
14 October 2024 When connecting generating equipment, such as regenerative drives, in parallel with a public distribution network in the UK, the installation must comply with the G99… Read More
