Industrial Drive Service Inc.
Automation Controls
I recently had a situation occur where a customer had a VFD fail and asked me to set up the spare in its place....
read moreIDS employees regularly repair and perform testing on previously failing drives that are loaned to them from other large industries. Testing is completed through a half hour load test on the drive to determine the effectiveness of the repair.....
read moreIndustry 4.0 is a term being used a lot in the industrial world right now. It can be applied to anything from batch size 1 machinery to artificial intelligence; essentially technologies we expect to see in a modern-day facility.....
read moreIn the early days of variable speed drives, Nema rated motor contactors were used. The more economical IEC rated contactor had not been introduced....
read morePower factor correction (PFC) is the process of raising the electrical systems efficiency or power factor (PF) to a target level, typically 95%...
read moreImproving system PF lowers system kVA which releases system capacity and permits additional loads (motors, lighting, etc.) to be added without overloading the system....
read moreIn a common AC induction motor, a magnetic field is induced in the rotor and the power is supplied directly to the stator. The power used to induce the magnetic field in the rotor is commonly known as reactive power since it does not produce work....
read moreIndustrial Drive Service Inc. is a drive systems integrator business based in Hensall, Ontario. Most of our projects involve a motor, drive and a programmable logic controller. One of their niche markets is hoist controls used in the mining industry. In 1995...
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