Global IE4 motors market heads towards $300m
21 January 2015 The global market for IE4 “super-premium efficiency” motors is expanding at double-digit rates and will more than double in size between 2013, when it was… Read More
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The impact of energy management on DCS systems
24 October 2014 Schneider Electric has produced a White paper called Energy management impact on distributed control systems (DCS) in industrial environments. The… Read More
IE4 motors can replace low-efficiency machines directly
8 October 2014 At next month’s SPS IPC Drives show in Germany, Siemens will be launching two ranges of IE4 “super premium” efficiency induction motors that are around… Read More
ABB appoints Hawley to run UK motors business
16 September 2014 ABB has appointed Dave Hawley to be manager of its motors and generators business in the UK from 1 September. He joins from Sulzer Dowding… Read More
Global sales of IE3 motors will overtake IE1 by 2018
20 August 2014 Global sales of IE3 high-efficiency electric motors and the equivalent Nema Premium machines will almost double to more than $8bn by 2018, according to a… Read More
Motor and inverter tester works under dynamic conditions
13 August 2014 HBM has developed a system for measuring the performance and efficiency of electric motors and inverters that, it claims, is the only one that can… Read More
€10m investment will halve gear-motor lead times
11 August 2014 Bauer Gear Motors is building a new manufacturing headquarters in Esslingen, Germany, which, it says, will halve lead times for configured gear-motors. Most of the… Read More
Silicon carbide device ‘will boost EV efficiencies by 10%’
22 May 2014 Toyota and the automotive parts supplier Denso have developed a silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor for use in automotive power control units (PCUs) which, they… Read More
Stainless-steel IE4 geared motor is ‘the world’s first’
6 May 2014 At the recent Hannover Fair, Bauer Gear Motor unveiled what it claims is the world’s first modular, stainless-steel, IE4-efficiency geared motor. The new machine, based… Read More
ABB cuts SynRM losses by a further 20% to reach ‘IE5’
7 April 2014 At the 2014 Hannover Fair, ABB has unveiled a new version of its high-efficiency synchronous reluctance (SynRM) motor technology which reduces losses by a further… Read More
