Field Level Actuators - On Demand Webinar Series
Overview
Enhance performance and precision with our on-demand Field Level Actuators series. After an EBV introduction, manufacturers explore cutting-edge interfaces and protocols that enable smart actuator networking and control. Maximize the efficiency of your applications.
EBV - Market Trends & Technology update: Actuators
Efficiency
- Developments of new nodes in Si technologies
- Development of SiC and GaN
Size
- Adopting WBG in drives enables more efficient and smaller drives
- New packaging enables new cooling concepts
Safety
- New isolation technologies
- Introduction of safety concepts
Speakers:
- Karl Lehnhoff - Segment Director - Industrial, Scientific & Medical, EBV
- Milan Ivkovic - Lead Analog & Power Technology Segment and Technical Support Center, EBV
Broadcom - Safety in motor drives
Safety in motor drives entails measures to mitigate uncontrolled movements during electrical and mechanical failures.
The robust construction of gate drive optocouplers ensures the motor drives remain in a fail-safe mode and are galvanically insulated when electrically damaged.
Furthermore, Broadcom's new gate drivers can provide diagnostic feedback and receive STO(Safe Torque Off) signals to prevent force-producing power from being supplied to the motor drives.
Speaker:
- Tee Chun Keong
Nexperia - Low voltage MOSFETs used in Factory Automation
The global Industrial automation & control systems is a fast growing market segment due to the adoption of Industry 4.0. It is evolving rapidly with the introduction of sophisticated technologies, such as robotics, enabling efficient operation of manufacturing and material handling. These systems require high power brushless motor drives using Power MOSFETs, sometimes using several parts in parallel. Robotics can also use high-capacity Li battery systems that need to be safely isolated.
This presentation will focus on the Nexperia MOSFET portfolio targeting these demanding applications.
Speaker:
- Steven Waterhouse - Senior Product Applications Engineer
onsemi - Autonomous Mobile Robot concept design
The onsemi Autonomous Mobile Robot concept is a comprehensive robotics solution designed with highly efficient and innovative solutions from onsemi. The concept can be used to design various types of Robots, Cobots, Machine tools, and Autonomous Guided Vehicles by combining different intelligent sensing and intelligent power solutions from onsemi.
Speaker:
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Alessandro Maggioni - Sr. Regional MKT manager EMEA, AMG
Power Integrations - Power conversion efficiency for electro-mechanical equipment
Power systems for factory and industrial equipment vary in output power: from auxiliary supplies at 10's of W to high-force machines requiring 10’s of kW. All share common requirements of relatively short periods of high loads followed by long periods of idle mode, where standby or hibernation modes seek to minimize power consumption.
In this session, we will look at ways to achieve maximum power conversion efficiency across the load range, including standy and sleep modes, without sacrificing no-load or peak-load performance. We will examine how this can be achieved with a minimized BOM to provide accurate, cost-effective, reliable power conversion.
The full output power spectrum will be covered: from low-power switches, to mid-power designs leveraging power factor correction and LLC, to high-power systems employing large SiC and IGBT modules with sophisticated gate drivers.
Speaker:
- Dmitry Antonov - Field Application Engineer, Power Integrations
Toshiba - How to tackle the challenges of migrating an IGBT based drive inverter to SiC MOSFETs
Using IGBT in Inverter Application is common practice since many years. All of these solutions have the disadvantage that the resulting systems are quite heavy and big and are getting hot during operation under load. To overcome these issues a replacement of the IGBTs by SiC MOSFETs is a proper solution.
During the presentation the benefits of SiC MOSFETs in contrast to IGBTs and their influence on the design and implementation of an inverter will be explained using a ready to use inverter as example.
Speaker:
- Matthias Ortmann - Chief Engineer, Application Support, Semiconductor Marketing, Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH
Infineon - Next-generation Motor Control solutions: Unlocking efficiency and performance with Infineon's advanced technologies
The increasing demand for energy efficiency, reliability, and precision in industrial applications has driven the need for innovative motor control solutions. Infineon, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions, has developed a new generation of motor control technologies that address these challenges. Our latest solutions leverage advanced power electronics, intelligent sensing, and sophisticated control algorithms to optimize motor performance, reduce energy consumption, and enhance system reliability.
This speech includes Infineon's next-generation motor control solutions.
Speaker:
- Wolf-Dieter Bähre - Director Application Management Industrial Drives & Automation, Infineon