Sellers Engineers chooses inverter drives from Lenze for Fibrebak carpet recycling machine
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Positioning drives
Huddersfield-based Sellers Engineers, a manufacturer of carpet-finishing machinery, has chosen positioning drives from Lenze for its new Fibrebak machine, which is designed to process waste and used carpet while recovering the reusable fibres.
Ten of the 17 axes of Lenze drives used have built-in positioning functionality capable of achieving precise machine settings. The end result is a simple automated system that lowers costs through a reduction in components.
On the Fibrebak machine, positioning is required to set the height of the blade head, the tracking and the blade grinding wheels.
The Lenze 8400 Highline inverters feature point-to-point positioning with the associated travel profiles and 100kHz evaluation of encoder signals, all without the need for external control.
Key benefits of product application
- Setup is made simple with the L-force engineer software, while a plug-in memory module allows drives to be exchanged without reprogramming.
- CAN is the chosen fieldbus as it is standard at no extra cost in the 8400 inverter drives.
- For the Fibrebak machine, staff at Sellers Engineers needed straightforward operation and simple, low-cost positioning, which they get from the 8400 Highline inverter drives.
- Choosing the STO safety option has provided additional simplification and a cost reduction.
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