Out of the total energy used in the U.S. in a day, a large portion goes to motors. Electric motors in everything from escalators to air conditioners to production machinery consume a tremendous amount ...

Electric motors, which convert electrical energy into mechanical energy, play an essential role in a variety of industrial and robotics applications. Given that electric motors account for ...

Recent breakthroughs in electric motor and control technology are set to reshape industrial and EV performance. WEG and SpinDrive unveiled oil-free motors with magnetic bearings capable of 20 years of ...

As previously mentioned, the feedback sensors include position sensors to track the rotor’s location, current sensors to measure the motor phase currents, voltage sensors to monitor the DC bus voltage ...

The company's Pacesetter family of right angle, ac-inverter duty motors, gear motors, and ac variable-speed controls offer new motor and gear-head combinations, promising maximum output power in the ...

The way we control the speed of fan motors or pump motors has tremendously changed in the past two decades with the introduction of variable-frequency drives (VFDs), aka variable-frequency controllers ...

NXP’s latest motor-control microcontrollers usher in a new level of performance for automotive/industrial BLDC, PMSM, and other electric motors. A new family of motor-control MCUs from NXP ...

Engineers involved in EV projects are transitioning from hardware-first to software-integrated control strategies. System-level engineering is now essential, ensuring all vehicle components operate ...

Over three decades ago, real-time software was predominantly written in assembly language or a combination of assembly and the C programming language. Even today, certain digital signal processing ...

Thanks to hype in the popular media, the term “automation” tends to conjure images of robots, artificial intelligence and the cloud in the minds of most people. The root of most manufacturing ...

Everybody agrees: motors and their control electronics were not created as equals. They live in two different environments. Electronic controls enjoy the safer, cooler, and more centralized enclosures ...