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Hitachi WJ200 Variable Speed Drive

Ryan Chamberlin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:37:05 +0000

Hitachi America, Ltd recently announced that they have released two new voltage class variable speed drive models in the WJ200 series. The new voltage class for the Hitachi WJ200 variable speed drive ranges from 100-120VAC, single phase input and three phase output. The Hitachi WJ200 variable speed drive is extremely versatile, complete with sensorless vector technology for applications where high starting torque apply as well as full torque at low RPM.

The Hitachi WJ200 variable speed drive in the 100v class is available in horsepower sizes ranging from 0.5HP through 1.5HP. The Hitachi WJ200 variable speed drive in the 200v class as well as the 400V class is available in horsepower sizes ranging from 1/4HP through 25HP.

A few of the features for the Hitachi WJ200 variable speed drive include:

Simple position control capability
Dynamic braking transistor in all models
Easy setup and operation via standard integral keypad
Optional enhanced keypad or via PC software
Simplified autotuning procedure
Many more features

We work with Hitachi WJ200 variable speed drives in new sales as well as repair work. If you have a Hitachi WJ200 variable speed drive that needs replaced, or quoted for repair, give us a call.

Lenze AC Tech MC Series Variable Frequency Drive

Ryan Chamberlin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:43:03 +0000

The Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive is built in rugged steel enclosures that are known to last many years in production.

The 16 character LCD display on the Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive keypad allows for easy set up and operation.

The Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive has a constant horsepower and can be set up for simple applications to demanding applications that require PID set-point control and many other programming functions.

Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive available from 1/4 through 150HP

Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive Input voltages from 120V single phase (with voltage doubler) to 590VAC

Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive available in NEMA Type 1, 12, 4 and 4X Enclosures

The Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive consists of the MC1000 and MC3000 models; most applications will use the Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive MC1000 with a remote keypad to Start, Stop, up, down, forward/reverse, Program/Run, Auto/Manual and Enter buttons.

For non-reversing applications that require independent switching of start and stop from local to remote and speed control from auto to manual, the Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive MC3000 series keypad replaces the forward/reverse button with Local/Remote.

Technical documentation for the Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drives in all models can be sent to you via email upon request.

For Lenze AC Tech MC Series variable frequency drive repair, replacement or drive parts, email or call Precision Electric, Inc. today.

Panasonic Toughbook Rugged Laptop

Ryan Chamberlin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:50:49 +0000

If your seeking a rugged laptop solution for your manufacturing or business needs, the Panasonic Toughbook could be the right choice for you. Whether looking for background data, press materials, screensavers or job information, visitors will find this resource center contains the information and tools they seek. From bios and spec sheets to high-resolution images and digital media, the Panasonic Toughbook will do all of these tasks. The reasons why so many users rate TOUGHBOOK Business-rugged laptops so highly are because they are light weight; ranging from about 1.3 kg to 1.6 kg (approximately 3lb). Panasonic Toughbook computing performance is also on a par with desktop machines, and battery power duration. These laptops are tough. Even though your laptop may be light and have lasting battery power, if it isn’t robust, it may not work after getting knocked or rattled, or break when you drop it on your way somewhere, or cause you to lose important data if water gets spilled on it at the office. All Panasonic Toughbook models are built extra rugged to withstand common accidents that include drops, spills, pressure, and vibration. A few of the design features of the Panasonic Toughbook:

Bonnet style magnesium top plate

Floating structure for mainboard protection

Shock absorbing material protects hard disk

Free fall tested from 76 cm*2

LCD protected from shock of falling by “arm embraced” structure

Spill resistant keyboard reduces risk of damaging the computer by water spills

Every Panasonic Toughbook mobile computer and every Toughbook Arbitrator comes standard with the industry’s most comprehensive 3-year warranty. Access to in-house dedicated technical support representatives located in the United States. Toughbook users receive user-replaceable parts and repairs for all in-warranty mobile computers and Arbitrators at no charge. And, service is performed at Panasonic’s National Service Center with genuine Panasonic parts. This provides our customers with fast, thorough and consistent care. Sources: http://panasonic.net/avc/toughbook/
https://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TCCStandardWarranty?langId=-1&storeId=15001 Ryan Chamberlin Inside Sales, Customer Support ryan@precision-elec.com Call Toll Free: 1.877.625.2402

GM To Post It’s First Profit Since 2004

Ryan Chamberlin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:09:00 +0000

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General Motors hasn’t posted an annual profit since 2004.

Since then, the company has shed five brands, parted ways with three chief executive officers, lost more than $88 billion on its way to bankruptcy and received $49.5 billion from the federal government.

Thursday, the automaker is expected to announce its first annual profit in six years. And while its fourth quarter wasn’t as strong as its first three, analysts are pointing toward the expected profit as further proof that GM’s government-backed bankruptcy was a success.

This week’s earnings report will provide evidence that it worked, said Aaron Bragman, an analyst with IHS Automotive.

“They’ve done very well on the program that was put in place by the government” and new executives, Bragman said. “First and foremost, this has to be run like a profitable business.”

Profitable, indeed. GM is expected to report a 2010 net profit of $5.3 billion, according to an average of estimates from 18 Wall Street analysts reporting to Thomson One Analytics.

The federal government has yet to recoup its full investment and General Motors, and absent a dramatic stock surge, it’s far from a sure bet. Nonetheless, the Treasury Department continues to scale back projected losses for the auto bailout even as the White House touts countless jobs saved by the action.

For GM, Thursday’s profit report will mark the latest chapter in a remarkable turnaround that saw the company shrink as profits grew.

Here at Precision Electric, the automotive manufacturing industry directly effects our business. We have customers nationwide who manufacture parts for GM, as well as nearly every other car manufacturer. We have noticed growth in the automotive industry over the past 12 months, and this growth continues to grow on a month to month basis. Let us know if we can offer your industry any industrial electronics equipment for repair or replacement. Ryan Chamberlin Inside Sales, Customer Support ryan@precision-elec.com Call Toll Free: 1.877.625.2402 Source: http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2011/02/report_general_motors_to_post.html

2004-2011 Industrial Manufacturing Growth In America

Ryan Chamberlin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:30:51 +0000

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Manufacturing in the U.S. unexpectedly accelerated in January at the fastest pace in more than six years, reinforcing forecasts the economic recovery will strengthen in 2011. “Businesses have figured out the economic recovery has legs so they’re growing more confident about expanding production and new orders and increasing hiring,” said John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Manufacturing is making a very decent contribution to growth.” General Electric Co. last month posted its third straight quarter of profit growth, beating analysts’ estimates, driven by a rebound in its finance unit, health-care and transportation divisions. “The environment continues to improve,” Jeffrey Immelt, GE’s chief executive officer, said on a Jan. 21 conference call. “The economy can get a little bit stronger every day.” Caterpillar, the world’s largest maker of construction equipment, posted fourth-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates as sales advanced in China, Australia and Latin America. The Peoria, Illinois-based company last week said sales climbed 62 percent to $12.8 billion from the year-ago quarter. The company said 2011 sales will exceed $50 billion, compared with $42.59 billion in 2010. Auto dealers are also seeing improved demand. Car sales in December rose to a 12.53 million unit pace, the highest since the government’s cash-for-clunkers program in August 2009, according to industry data. Precision Electric has also seen a major increase in both sales and service within the last several months. We have been prospecting new customers, and also experiencing increases of repair and service work with our existing customers. Precision Electric recommends that all manufacturers keep spare equipment in case of an emergency breakdown. We also encourage you to schedule routine predictive maintenance on both your equipment in production as well as your spare equipment. Over the past several months many customers of ours have decided to have Precision Electric rebuild their spare equipment in case of an emergency breakdown. If you have equipment that needs to be repaired or replaced, let us know. Ryan Chamberlin Inside Sales, Customer Support ryan@precision-elec.com Call Toll Free: 1.877.625.2402 Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-01/u-s-economy-manufacturing-grows-by-most-since-2004.html

Mitsubishi Will Build SUV At Illinois Plant

Ryan Chamberlin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:22:11 +0000

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Mitsubishi Motors North America said Friday that it will begin production of a new SUV crossover at its plant in Normal, Illinois, next year, promising to keep the facility open less than a month after its 1,100 union employees agreed to wage concessions. The state of Illinois said it will give the company $29 million in tax incentives as it begins production of the new Outlander Sport. The new vehicles, which Mitsubishi started making late last year, will replace four existing models now made at the Normal plant that will be phased out, Mitsubishi Motors North America President Shinichi Kurihara said Friday at the plant. ”Mitsubishi Motors remains fully committed to producing vehicles in Normal,” he said. “We will build vehicles here not just for the United States, but for many nations around the world.” The facility’s 1,100 union workers in December agreed to cut their pay by $1.67 an hour, a concession Mitsubishi said it needed to keep the plant open. The plant now makes the Galant, Eclipse and Spyder and the Endeavor sport utility vehicle. All four will be phased out over the next few years, though no timetable has been set. The plant was built in 1988 and has 1,300 employees, about half of whom commute from surrounding communities and as far away as Peoria and Champaign, the company has said. Like most of the auto industry, Mitsubishi North America has struggled with slow sales. The Cypress, Calif.-based subsidiary of Tokyo’s Mitsubishi Motors Corp. saw its U.S. market share slip to one half of one percent in 2009 — the lowest level since 1985, according to WardsAuto.com, a website that tracks auto industry data. A key Illinois Democrat used Friday’s announcement as an opportunity to jab at the chorus of critics who have complained that Illinois’ recent income tax increase discourages economic growth. Those critics include leaders in other states, like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who have openly encouraged businesses to leave Illinois over the higher taxes they’ll pay if they remain. “Illinois has reformed its pension system, enacted spending limits, recruited and retained key businesses and put itself back on track for stability and prosperity,” state Senate President John Cullerton said. “Compare that to New Jersey where the governor is spending more of the people’s money promoting himself in the Illinois media than he is on his state’s underfunded pension systems.” Mitsubishi on Friday also said it will loan the state of Illinois what it called a small number of battery-powered electric vehicles to try out as part of the state’s fleet, and will work with the state to try to promote the use of electric vehicles. The company loaned the state of California two cars last year in a similar arrangement. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-04/mitsubishi-will-build-suv-at-illinois-plant.html

Industrial Manufacturing Smart Phone Mobile App

Ryan Chamberlin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:38:05 +0000

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When Invensys Operations Management (IOM) set out earlier this year to develop an industrial “app” for smart phones, the company had a strong idea of what it wanted to do. IOM, the Plano, Texas-based automation supplier, partnered with Sarla Analytics LLC, Barrington, R.I., a supplier of smart phone applications, to develop SmartGlance, a software-as-a-service offering designed to deliver manufacturing intelligence data to smart phones, including Apple iPhones, Apple iPads, Blackberries and Android models. SmartGlance was introduced in October. But before Invensys brought the SmartGlance offering to market, it turned to its customer council, a group of both large and small users of its products, for input on the app’s features and functions. “We started working with them very early on, asking what kinds of information would be most useful, and how they would want to see it,” says Rob McGreevy, IOM vice president, platforms and applications. One customer, in particular—General Mills—stepped up to provide significant guidance and feedback, McGreevy notes, driving “some very important changes” in the app’s design. General Mills got its first look at the SmartGlance app early last summer, says Chris Damsgard, senior engineer at the company’s Controls and Information Systems Engineering Group, in Golden Valley, Minn. “Their first pass was on the iPhone. They could show some tabular data and they could do some charting, but that was about it,” recalls Damsgard who does much of General Mills usability work. “So we started thinking about the problems that we have in the manufacturing space and how a mobile app could help us solve those, and we started explaining some of those challenges and problems to Invensys.” The vendor responded positively, making appropriate changes to the app, he says. One thing that was missing in the early SmartGlance implementation was an alerting function, Damsgard says. While Invensys had started with a “great idea” of delivering real-time manufacturing data via smart phones, “they weren’t really totally catching the use case”—that busy manufacturing users don’t have time to be constantly checking or staring at their smart phones, he explains. Sometimes, the optimal display approaches weren’t immediately obvious. When General Mills suggested use of color, for example, the SmartGlance developers quickly thought of using red, yellow and green to indicate varying levels of equipment health. But General Mills instead pushed for just a single color to be used—and only when an anomaly occurs. The red-yellow-green approach would have produced too much visual noise, requiring users to interpret all of the different colors, Damsgard explains. “Why not assume that things are good and shade just the one thing that I need to pay attention to?” he says. “When I open my report, I’ve got this grid of numbers, and I need to be able to go straight to the one that’s messed up, because at that moment, that’s all I care about, so that’s what the single color accomplishes.” Damsgard anticipates significant payoffs for the project. Even a minute of downtime can amount to large costs for General Mills, he notes, “so the sooner you can get the information into somebody’s hands, the sooner they can react to prevent losses,” he says. At press time, Damsgard was hoping to begin piloting the SmartGlance app with General Mills users by around the end of November. source: http://www.automationworld.com/feature-7976

Improving pharmaceutical energy efficiency

Ryan Chamberlin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:39:38 +0000

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Electric motors and variable speed drives are used throughout the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry to operate HVAC systems, laboratory or bulk manufacturing equipment, such as mixers, pumps, centrifuges and dryers, and to move and operate filling and finishing equipment. Maintenance can save from 2% to 30% of total motor system energy use in pharmaceutical production. Electric motors and variable speed drives are often sized incorrectly in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Ensuring that motors are properly sized, and that oversized motors are replaced, can save 1.2% of total electric motor electricity consumption within one system. Typically whenever peak loads can be reduced, so can motor size. Replacing an old electric motor with a high-efficiency motor is usually a better choice than rewinding a motor. Currently, there are no quality or efficiency standards for rewinding, this can create motor efficiency to decrease from 2% to 25% after rewinding. If you are thinking about whether to rewind a motor or to replace it with a higher-efficiency model, consider the following prior to making a decision:

Never rewind a motor damaged by excessive heat

Replace motors that are less than 100 hp and more than 15 years old

Replace any motors that have previously been rewound

High-efficiency motors, meeting or exceeding performance criteria published by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), reduce energy losses through improved design, better materials, tighter tolerances and improved manufacturing techniques. Precision Electric offers several different types of equipment and services to Pharmaceutical manufacturers across the United States. Click here to learn more about the products and services we offer. If you need price and delivery quoted for any of your equipment, let me know.

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Source: http://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/articles/2006/045.html?page=1

Industrial vibration consultants

Ryan Chamberlin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:45:49 +0000

If you are looking for a certified industrial vibration analysis consultant you’ve come to the right place. Precision Electric offers vibration analysis services to industrial manufacturing manufacturing industries across the Midwest. These services consist primarily of collecting data designed to trend equipment performance. Scheduled data collection of this sort exposes deteriorating conditions and allows the scheduling of maintenance prior to equipment failure and forced downtime. With timely preventative maintenance, you can prolong equipment life and prevent catastrophic failure. Industrial Vibration Analysis Services:

Vibration Institute-certified Category III Vibration Analysts
vibration condition monitoring and diagnostics in accordance with the requirements of ISO/FDIS 18436-2
routine predictive maintenance programs (PMPs) – quarterly, alternate month, or monthly
onsite assessment of capital equipment
onsite balancing of rotating equipment
three sets of CSI® vibration analysis equipment
programs that can be designed to support ISO and QS 9000 programs

Precision Electric has offered these services for over 25 years. To learn more about our vibration analysis services please call or email us. Ryan Chamberlin Inside Sales, Customer Support ryan@precision-elec.com Call Toll Free: 1.877.625.2402

Industrial equipment repair services

Ryan Chamberlin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:39:24 +0000

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Precision Electric is your number one source for industrial manufacturing repair sales and services. We have been serving the industrial manufacturing world since 1983. Our motor repair services division offers large and small repair services. This assures that a small motor gets the same attention and quality service as a large motor. Most competitors of Precision Electric function as ‘assembly line’ in there repair processes to cut costs on repair work. Unlike the competition Precision Electric does not use an ‘assembly line’ repair technique. We have a more successful and unique way to make repairs. 99% of the time here at Precision Electric the same mechanic who starts a repair job, finishes it. This is to ensure 100% quality from start to finish. We troubleshoot, repair, rebuild, and rewind both form-wound and random-wound machines. Among other things, this includes all types of electric motors, generators, transformers, clutches, brakes, pumps, gearboxes, blowers, fans, shafts, sleeve bearings, and hoist equipment. The following are general services Precision Electric offers: rotary apparatus repair electric motor repair drive repair (ac/dc) servo motor repair servo drive repair mechanical repairs pump repair gearbox repair and much more The Precision Electric in-service warranty is another advantage we have over our competitors. We encourage customers to have all spares rebuilt and ready for immediate replacement; this is to ensure maximum production with little to no downtime. Our in-service warranty begins the same day our customers install equipment rebuilt by Precision Electric, and ends 12 months later. To learn more about Precision Electric sales and services, call us. We do not rely on voicemail so when you call a human being will answer. If you already know you need something repaired you can email me and request a RMA (return materials authorizaion) form. We will inspect and quote your equipment free of charge upon arrival. We also offer expedited repair services, if your broke down your best solution is to call us immediately. If you have any questions or you need additional information, email or call me direct. Ryan Chamberlin Inside Sales, Customer Support ryan@precision-elec.com Call Toll Free: 1.877.625.2402