Pumps & Drives
Drive dishes up savings for baker
Improved speed control on one of its production lines, courtesy ABB, is enabling The Village Bakery (Nutrition) to save £20,000 per year at its Abenbury Way site in Wrexham The installation of an ABB general machinery drive with high ingress protection (IP66) has delivered a combination of cost savings. The new drive controls the speed of a depositing line, which is a conveyor-based system that divides the dough into the correct weights to make various rolls and loaves. The Wrexham...
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Tiny drive shows a lot of bottle
Bottle caps – the foil coverings on corks of wine and spirit bottles – are taken for granted, even overlooked. But the procedure to create one is complicated, involving complex, precise stages. Now, a compact drive system from maxon motor is said to have revolutionised the process, making it simpler, more reliable and cheaper – and it’s only the size of a remote control. In addition to controlling local inputs and outputs, program selection, start and stop signals...
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