Brake choppers and resistors are not needed.Īllied Motion launched a new range of outer-rotor brushless DC motors supplied as frameless stator-rotor part sets. If an application generates more energy than is being consumed by the motors, then the excess energy can be fed back into the grid. The system allows several motors to be driven simultaneously or for energy to be partially regenerated, with the feed-in supplying only the differential energy. Over the next few pages, we report on some of the highlights from the show.Īt SPS, ABB demonstrated a cabinet-based regenerative multi-drive system based on its liquid-cooled ACS880LC drives. The one significant exception was Bosch Rexroth’s revamp of much of its automation portfolio to create a new open platform called ctrlX which uses EtherCat as its main communications backbone.Īreas of technology where there was plenty of activity at SPS included condition monitoring, 5G, digital twins, edge computing, TSN, the cloud and sensing. The slowdown in the German economy also perhaps explains why there were few major product launches at SPS 2019 as companies reined in their r&d budgets. But CEO Hans Beckhoff is confident that the tide will turn again this year. Even the normally unstoppable Beckhoff Automation ground to a halt after several years of double-digit growth. The slight drop in numbers perhaps reflects the hard year that the German automation sector experienced, with German trade bodies reporting drops in both orders and sales. SPS s still the most important dedicated event for the industrial automation sector and the 2019 event attracted 1,585 exhibitors and 63,708 visitors – about 45 fewer exhibitors and 2,000 fewer visitors than in 2018. Other than the name, not much has changed. So SPS now stands for Smart Production Solutions.
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It now encompasses all aspects of industrial automation from software and communications to sensors, edge computing and the cloud. The SPS part of the name came from the German equivalent of PLC, but today’s show covers much more than PLCs, industrial PCs and VSDs.
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Last November’s SPS automation show in Nuremberg, Germany, was the 30 th in the series and the first to drop the previous SPS IPC Drives title, which was always a bit of a mouthful and had outgrown its relevance.