Driving into the future

Drive design is being driven by price, ease of use, size, performance, connectivity, flexibility and configurability but it must be remembered that the drive is just one part of a system, and the customer is ultimately concerned with the system solution. ´The DC motor is still alive, and, while the market for industrial DC drives is reducing, it is not doing so as rapidly as has been predicted´. The customer is driving product specification by price, ease of use, size, performance, connectivity, flexibility and configurability´.