Industry NewsAC Tech now offers the SCD Series AC Drive. The SCD series is configured and ready to use right out of the box for most DeviceNet applications. Siemens Energy & Automation has released the fourth generation of its MICROMASTER inverters, a universal drive series for AC motors from 1/6 HP to 300 HP with a new, user-friendly parameter structure that simplifies installation and start-up for the basic to complex speed control applications at a commensurate price ABB’s new ACS 800 AC Drive family offers a new enclosure design. Extremely compact, 50 percent smaller than equivalent predecessors – and narrowest in the industry. Also available is the new NETA-01 Ethernet module, receiving an e-mail alert from your motor drive system is now possible. Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba announced that they would establish a new joint venture company integrating their businesses in industrial electric and automation systems, including industrial supervisory control systems, drive systems and power distribution systems. Toshiba also announces the acquisition of Toshiba GE Automation Systems. |