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On-line tool for selecting MEPS compliant motors
energy performance standards (MEPS) has been launched by ABB.
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The tool can be downloaded on line or as an iPad app. Users can select motors, compare running costs and get further documents about their motors.
presents the user with eight drop are MEPS area (e.g. EU, United etc), frame material, motor range, voltage, frequency, speed and
power output.
are selected, the tool presents a list of suitable motors. For
Tissue machine range completed with a servo-driven folder
was launched in June by Italy’s The vacuum-fold FV line, which
superior performance as a result of its electronic on-board equipment process.
The machine, 4.70 meters high and protected by a cabin which increases safety, is controllable from the operator panel on which it is possible to set the involves a very limited direct
The FV Line is a modular machine process inline a mother paper roll of 600mm placed side by side. The first FV Line is equipped with a servomotor for each folding cylinder and the vacuum valves. The final group that prepares the napkins for the packaging machine is configured with star wheels to ensure perfect stacking of the product, even at high speeds. The stacker placed under the star wheels includes an automatic waste disposal system which prevents
the operator from intervening on the machine in person. Omet says the FV Line has been
medium and large runs of white embossed napkins ‘with napkin dispenser fold’, i.e. those napkins counter or in fast food chains and whose fold facilitates the gesture of taking the napkin. This type of napkin is typical of the American market but its use is spreading rapidly throughout Europe. Upon request, the FV Line can be The machine can produce napkins be coupled with various packaging machines. Its maximum speed is 300
n on-line tool that makes it easier to select motors to meet
that not only makes the job easy but also provides running cost says Ian Allan, general manager for ABB motors and generators in the UK.
ABB’s standard IEC low voltage motors and motors for explosive atmospheres and will later be expanded to include other motor calculate the cost of ownership.
abb.com/motors&generators
4/6,000 napkins a minute.
care of ensuring that machine changeovers are easy to perform. “Compared to 50 minutes spent on the standard exchange format with the other machines, FV Line runs the job change in two minutes,” said Roberto Perego, Omet.
The machine made its debut
fact of having a new building dedicated to the Tissue Division Fossoli in Lecco), equipped with advanced instruments, has made Perego.
July 2013
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