Tiny Motor, Big Impact

The miniature piezomotor developed by Piezo Motion provides significant advantages in motion control applications that demand small size, high performance, precision motors. A novel, low-power, high-performance...

Benefits of Permanently Installed Automatic Insulation Resistance (IR) Testing: Part 1...

Since over 80 percent of electrical maintenance testing involves evaluating insulation integrity, Insulation Resistance Testing (IR) is a very important test. This is because...

Carbon Brush Redesign Solves Commutation Problem

Though DC motors may not be the latest state-of-the-art in technology, many railway and transit operators will trust in its reliability for many years...

Drive-based Functional Safety

Functional safety can be easily achieved with safety devices that are, themselves, already certified to the most relevant functional safety standards. ABB drives include...

Precision Meets Connectivity

Big Data, Cloud, Internet of Things, and Smart Factory: This is just a selection of the buzzwords currently dominating the discussions in many industry...

Vibration monitoring that anyone can afford: Part 2 of 2

see Part 1 here In last month’s installment of this series, we discussed how vibration monitoring is an affordable and reliable component for almost any...

Maximizing power plant flexibility: Part 3 of 3

Miss part 2? Read it here. Over the first two parts of this series, we have illustrated how combined cycle power producer, or CCPP, operating...

Protecting Critical Pump Motors with Automatic Notification

By Jeff Elliott Although municipal and industrial process engineers have streamlined the monitoring and control of critical equipment through SCADA systems and other means of...

Leading the World in Energy Storage

Efficiency and sustainability are watchwords in today’s industrial market, and a significant surge in the energy storage sector is the focus on renewable energy...

Benefits of Screw Pumps in Oil-and-Gas Fluid-Handling Applications: Part 2 of...

As mentioned in part 1 of this series, the solution to the shortcomings of centrifugal pumps can be positive displacement (PD) screw pumps. The...