This section provides an overview for high efficiency motors as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 27 high efficiency motor manufacturers and their company rankings.
A motor is a machine that converts electrical power into rotational motion, and is a very important piece of equipment in the industrial world used in many factories and plants.
However, motors also cannot convert 100% of the electrical power into rotary motion, as a percentage of the supplied electrical power is always released as heat. This loss is very small if only one motor is used. Since it is said that there are about 100 million motors in Japan, the loss is very large.
High efficiency motors have been developed to reduce these losses.
High efficiency motors are already widely available in many markets as replacements for existing motors. Uses of these motors include all products in which they can be used.
For this reason, high-efficiency motors are increasingly being used in pumps for water supply, roots blowers for airflow, and many other rotating equipment.
These high efficiency motors are equivalent to the IEC standard, which is a worldwide standard, and are generally defined as a premium efficiency class (IE3).
High efficiency motors consume less electricity than ordinary motors, which has the great advantage of addressing global warming and reducing power consumption, but there are also some points that require attention.
If you only need to replace the motor, you can generally just purchase the same one, but if the only alternative is a high efficiency motor, you need to be careful.
High efficiency motors tend to have a higher RPM, so connecting them to a pump or fan without any prior investigation may conversely increase the power consumption due to the increased power demand. Also, the starting current may be higher, so it is necessary to check in advance that there are no problems with the wiring, breakers, magnets, or other related equipment.
In addition, the torque generated will be higher, and the delta star starting system cannot be used, so it is necessary to check with the manufacturer of the equipment before replacing a conventional motor with a high efficiency motor.
However, it is becoming a corporate responsibility to reduce CO2 emissions as much as possible due to the problem of global warming.
If possible, replacing equipment with high efficiency motors will be highly appreciated as a company's environmental response.
*Including some distributors, etc.
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ABB E-mobility provides electric vehicle charging solutions for customers around the globe. ABB E-mobility offers DC fast chargers as well as AC chargers with focus on reliability and uptime. Since 2010, ABB E-mobility has sold over 50,000 DC fast chargers and over 1 million total AC chargers. ABB E-mobility offers home single and multi-charge units, retail, workplace, and hospitality charge units, electric vehicle fleet sales, as well as public transportation. Additionally, numerous digital solutions and software services are available.
H2W Technologies, Inc. is based in Santa Clarita, California. H2W serves aerospace, amusement rides, medical, meteorology, photonics, and other industries as a distributor of motion control products. H2W has 3 product segments: linear motors, rotary motors, and linear stages. Linear motors includes voice coil actuators, brushless linear motors, brush linear motors, single axis linear stepper motors, dual axis linear stepper motors, linear induction motors, and polynoids. Rotary motors include rotary voice coil actuators, limited angle torque motors, and brushless rotary motors. Linear stages include voice coil stages, linear stepper stages, single rail stages, dual rail stages, crossed roller stages, air bearing stages, belt stages, and lead screw/ball screw stages.
Optimal Engineering Systems, Inc. (OES) was established in 1985 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company is a manufacturer of motion control products for OEMs and other customers across industries ranging from aerospace, astronomy, manufacturing, medical, and semiconductors. The company provides in-house components manufacturing with a wide variety of components available off the shelf and the ability to custom-build sub-assemblies for customers worldwide. The company’s product lines include motor control systems, motorized stages, and solenoid control electronics.
Stephens Manufacturing was started in 1957 in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. Stephens is a manufacturer and distributor of concrete-related equipment. Categories include ready mix plants, precast plants, central mix plants, RCC, environmental, and material handling. Ready mix batch plants that generally have quicker installation. Precast plants are custom built. Portable mixers mix RCC and other mixes. Environmental components include dust collectors, reclaimers, and wash down racks. Material handling includes batchers, bins, hoppers, silos, conveyors, and vertical pigs. Stephens offers assistance in customer problem solving and delivers to customers globally.
Hansen Corporation was founded in 1907 in Princeton, Indiana, and is now an ElectroCraft Company. The company specializes in synchron motor and DC motor production as part of ElectroCraft. ElectroCraft provides motion control solutions in industrial, commercial, and consumer product markets. ElectroCraft and Hansen product models include asynchronous drives, stepper motors, DC brush motors and brushless motors, and actuators. The company’s tech center includes a CAD library of Hansen and ElectroCraft products, a conversions calculator, and whitepapers.
Pelonis Technologies, Inc. was founded in the 1990s in Exton, Pennsylvania. Pelonis technologies is a manufacturer and distributor of air movement technologies and specialty heating products for commercial and industrial use. Pelonis Technologies is ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certified. Pelonis Technologies has 3 main standard product segments in cooling, heating, and motors & motion control. Cooling products include fans, blowers, micro cooling, and automotive fans & blowers. Heating products include PTC heaters, temperature controllers, and immersion heaters. Motors & motion control include micro, planetary, AC, and medical micro motors. Custom solutions include AC and DC fans and blowers.
Jamieson Equipment Company (JEC) was founded in 1982 and located in the state of Georgia. JEC serves infrastructure-related industries including pavement with concrete, aggregate, and asphalt, chemicals, sewage and waste management, and agriculture and food. JEC sells, installs, retrofits, repairs, and offers training and troubleshooting for a range of components and tools from simple fittings to motion sensors to electronics to valves to actuators, cranes, mixers, silos, hoppers, and plants.
Nidec Corporation traces its roots all the way back to 1908. The company has established itself as an international conglomerate that handles virtually everything that spins and moves. Through its over 300 subsidiaries across the globe, the company manufactures motors that run the spectrum from tiny precision motors in cell phones to motors powering heavy commercial and industrial equipment. The company and its subsidiary's power devices and machines are used in many industrial and personal sectors including agriculture, exercise equipment, HVAC, and refrigeration. Products and services include many varieties of motors, drives, and generators.
Koffler Electrical Mechanical Apparatus Repair, Inc. is an electrical refurbishment, repair, and overhaul company in San Leandro, California. The company serves a broad range of industries, including the US Navy, steel companies, oil refineries, and utility companies. They repair and refurbish a variety of equipment, such as generators, circuit breakers, and motors. Additionally, they provide rewinding services and facilities for load testing, laser alignment, and thermographic surveys. The company has 24/7 emergency service available.
Dart Controls was founded in 1963 and is now headquartered in Zionsville, Indiana. The company is a designer and manufacturer of drives, controls, and accessories for electric motors to customers across North America and certain overseas countries. The company implements lean manufacturing with tools and concepts such as Kanban, Kaizen, just-in-time, and Poka-Yoke to improve reliability and reduce costs for customers. The company’s product offerings include digital potentiometers, low-voltage DC, encoders, and multiple types of drives. The company offers packaged total solutions of sensors and drives.
Dietz Electric was founded in 1974 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dietz Electric is a broad-line stocking distributor offering electric motors, drives, and power transmission products. Dietz Electric also offers customization options to test, manufacture, modify, and repair all product offerings. Product offerings include electric motors, hazardous locations motors, custom electric motors, variable frequency drives, motor controls, power transmission solutions, and specialty items such as purge systems, Uras vibrators, disc brakes, transformers, and AC line reactors.
Gainesville Industrial Electric Co. (GIE) was founded in 1959 in Gainesville, Georgia, where it remains today. GIE is an independent, EASA-approved, motor repairer and distributor. GIE offers electric motors from Marathon and GE, FPS Pumps, Barlow Pumps, Gould Pumps, gearboxes from Hub City Gearboxes and Bearings and Motovario Gearboxes and Motors, and variable frequency drives and inverters from Mitsubishi Inverters and TECO Westinghouse. GIE also offers repair services and is a factory authorized warranty center.
Sinotech is based in Portland, Oregon with offices in China. Sinotech is a distributor for custom-engineered electrical motors, motor components, and mechanical components manufactured in China. Sinotech’s motors include AC motors, DC motors, brushless DC motors, slotless high speed BLDC motors, stepper motors, cordless motors, gear motors, servo motors, and miniature motors. Motor components include laminations, wound coils, armature and field coils, brushes, and communicators. Mechanical components include assemblies, die castings, investment castings, sand castings, shafts, steamed metal parts, tubular metal parts, machined extrusions, plastic parts, rubber parts, and secondary processing.
Pro Dyne Corporation (Pro Dyne) was established in 1985 as a manufacturers' representative agency covering the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Pro Dyne is headquartered in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Pro Dyne is now a regional distribution company and handles fluid handling products both in the United States and abroad. Six primary product lines Pro Dyne represents are Scot Pump, Young Touchstone, Weg Motors, Delavan Nozzles, Rub Ball Valves, and Pro Dyne SS Pumps.
Accent Bearings Co. Inc. was established in 1993 and is a distributor for industrial bearings. Accent Bearings offers a full range of bearing-related parts including ball, cylindrical, radial, thrust, and standard, as well as CAM followers, rod ends, belts, sheaves, busings, bronze busings, bar stock, pulleys, chains, sprockets, gears, speed reducers, motors, clutches, brakes, couplings, shafts, shaft accessories, oil seals, gauges, retaining rings, air cylindeers, conveyor belts, and fluid power process control equipment.
AutomationDirect.com was founded in 1994 to provide solutions for the industrial automation market and has been growing its list of offerings ever since. AutomationDirects’ extensive catalog includes individual components such as cables, various controls, I/O devices, relays, gauges, fittings, and sensors to complete systems. Many parts and devices, especially PLC units are customizable. AutomationDirect.com also provides support via video instructions, online manuals, a learning library, an active community forum to further assist customers.
Auburn Armature was founded in 1946 and headquartered in Auburn, New York. Auburn Armature is a distributor of electrical products and was recently purchased by Power-Flo Technologies of New Hyde Park, New York. Services that Auburn Armature provide include training, testing, rebuilding, repair, troubleshooting, and training. Parts that Auburn Armature specialize in include automation systems, AC and DC drives, motor controls, motors, motion controls, connectors, wire, boxes, cables, sensors, relays, transformers, panels, struts, terminal blocks, lighting supplies, and conduits.
Renown Electric Motors & Repair Inc. was founded in 1984 and is located in Concord, Ontario. Renown is a full-service distributor of electric motors used in a wide range of industries including mining, alternative energy, water management, safety equipment, and manufacturing to customers globally, and is ISO 9001:2015 certified. Renown’s product lines include motors, drives, sensors, as well absorbers, and other parts. Renown also offers preventative & predictive maintenance, field services, shop services, and motor management.
Tri-State Bearing Company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Evansville, Indiana. The company is an independently owned and operated distributor of a full line of bearings, mechanical power transmission, and motion control products to customers across North America in the agricultural, automotive, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries. The company has several product lines such as chains & sprockets, clutches & breaks, and couplings in addition to its namesake of bearings. The company also offers services such as custom-length modifications of certain components such as roller chains, electronic repair of drivers and controllers, and on-site gearbox assembly.
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