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Industry 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. One of the topics of Industry 4.0 is...

IDS 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. The power factor of the...

I recently had a situation occur where a customer had a VFD fail and asked me to set up the spare in its place. The drive was a 40 HP, 575 VAC chassis. I walked into the room just in time to see flames coming out of the spare. The power had just been turned on. The...

Power factor correction (PFC) is the process of raising the electrical systems efficiency or power factor (PF) to a target level, typically 95%. PFC can be achieved through different methods but the most economical method is to use PFC banks. This type of traditional...