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Why use a VFD on Fans, Pumps or Blowers? First, visualize your production facility: How many fans are started and stopped using a starter. What about pumps and blowers? How many of those use a started to control stopping and starting? Are you able to control the speed or flow? Biggest question (and most costly)...

Neil, Todd and the marketing guys at Yaskawa got this out to us Friday and I intended to put the information here this past weekend. But it rained Saturday and Sunday in North Texas (in August!) and all most of us could do was just stand stupified and watch. So, a belated welcome to the newest...

In June, Yaskawa said it shipped its 10 millionth AC drive since 1974 of production.  Raw math says that’s about 300,000 drives shipped per year, but the uptick is much more dramatic than that. Here’s a look at how the demand for Yaskawa AC drives ramped up over the past three decades. Click on the image (above) for a closer look at this...

In our free newsletter, we have a segment devoted to cool gadgets that we either sell, service or use out in the shop. Here’s last month’s installment. Relax, it’s only two minutes.  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv7dlNiT1Yg]