Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much more ...

Hydraulic vs. all-electric injection molding machines compared for energy efficiency, applications, and business considerations.

Energy efficiency is often considered to be the main advantage of electric injection molding machines, but that neglects many other productivity benefits.

Over the past several years, manufacturers have teased battery electric compact machine prototypes at major industry shows. But until very recently, the availability of actual production machines was ...

Battery-powered hand tools now own the fix-it market. Yard equipment has its cell sights set on suburbia. Farm country, however, requires a much higher threshold of reliability. That isn’t slowing ...

Daniel Ludois discusses the history of electric machines, current uses and future needs. Daniel Ludois, an associate professor in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison, discusses how magnetic ...

“Analysis of Electric Machinery and Drive Systems” covers the concepts needed to understand the evolution of electrical and magnetic variables for designing the power-electronic circuits that supply ...

The air was charged with excitement at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020 as multiple equipment suppliers chose to highlight hybrid and battery-powered concepts, prototypes and even a few production models. And ...

Electric trikes are usually intended for the older generation, designed to offer stability when cruising around the park or as seamless street-to-shop mobility for doing the groceries. Typically these ...