Ideal for food and beverage applications!

Baumer offers more high-precision sensing solutions in more technology groups than any other company in the world!

Baumer can handle simple monitoring applications up to complex remote wireless intelligence systems. Engineers are on staff to assist you with your applications!

The new sensors with their plane, groove-free V4A stainless steel housings as well as the mounting accessories are compliant with hygienic standards, Ecolab-approved, and the materials are FDA-compliant. Along with the range of EHEDG-certified reflectors and Ecolab-approved cables with protection class IP 69K, Baumer offers a complete solution for position detection in the food zone.

For applications in the splash zone Baumer offers adequate sensors with washdown design. These sensors are as resistant against detergents and high-pressure splash water as those in hygienic design, but they are mounted conventionally.

With the specifically developed impermeability concept proTect+ Baumer guarantees a higher sensor performance and life-time. For this purpose the sensors are exposed to continuously changing temperature cycles in addition to the IP 68 and IP 69K impermeability tests.

Inductive sensors have a particularly large operating temperature range from -40 to +80 °C. This offers versatile fields of application from the processing of frozen products to areas with CIP processes.

For more information please contact Marshall Wolf Automation at 847-658-8130 or on the web at www.wolfautomation.com.

Does your application require accurate line measurement and detection? This sensor is ideal wherever sizes and positions of stationary or moving objects are to be measured.

Our Leuze Electronics LPS series are available in standard or high resolution and offer you a great, low price!

Do you need a height profile? An additional encoder port supports calibrated 3D data! Robot guidance, volume measuring... there are a number of possibilities.

Marshall Wolf Automation is your authorized industrial automation distributor for the complete line of Leuze Electronics.

Learn more about the Leuze LPS line profile scanner.

I started my search by checking out Wikipedia. I then looked up and read a number of things to come up with my very own simplified explanation. Disclaimer: I am in no way an engineer! This topic gets pretty deep, pretty fast. I'll do my best to keep it basic.

Vector control drives basically control 3-phase AC electric motor output by using two variables; voltage magnitude and frequency. We'll go just a little bit deeper to explain that vector control is available as field oriented control (FOC) or sensorless.

Most variable frequency drives used are Volts/Hertz, which means they provide open-loop operation. These drives are unable to retrieve feedback from the process, but can generally do the job for most applications. If these drives are not accurate enough then you want to take a look at vector control.

In general, if your application requires higher levels of accuracy, vector may be the way to go. These high performance AC drives can adjust themselves to sustain the programmed speed, rate, torque, and/or position.

Marshall Wolf Automation is a variably frequency drive powerhouse! We have a large inventory ready to ship, competitive pricing and we are authorized for all the top brands. Did I mention complimentary tech support?

View all of our AC drives now!

Sometimes we receive calls with older AC Tech variable frequency drives that might be replaced, but the end user has no idea of the age of the unit. 

This could occur for a variety of reasons; they didn't purchase it, it came installed on an OEM piece of equiment or was existing in the factory.  As a distributor, we don't always have access to all of the manufacturers internal documentation, but here we can now break down the important parts of the serial number to identify the month and year of manufacture.  It's very helpful, especially when trying to figure out if a drive is still under warranty. 

So let's look at the following example:

The following is from an AC Tech unit serial plate:  R14880903   What do we need to glean from this number?  We only care to look at the last four (4) digits, in this case (0903) 

The first two digits (09) signify the year of manufacture ( 2009 ), the last two digits ( 03 ) signify the week of 2009 that it was manufactured, i.e. the 3rd week of 2009. In this case, the drive was manufactured the 3rd week (January) of 2009. 

This coding applies to all AC Tech Drives, if you have a need for a Lenze AC Tech replacement or new application, please don't hesitate to contact us.  We can help size your application after some technical query. 

Check us out on the web at www.wolfautomation.com or contact us at 847-658-8130 or email us at sales@wolfautomation.com.  Wolf Automation is your authorized AC TECH LENZE drive distributor.  We are one of the top AC TECH LENZE AC VFD distributors in North America.   Contact us today, we can help!

Marshall Wolf Automation, your full-line industrial automation distributor, is your source for Lenze AC Tech products.

Following is an application featured on the Lenze AC Tech website.  The customer was an engine starter gear manufacturer and the application was a gear testing machine.  The product used was a PositionServo Drive.

Twin PositionServos Gear Up Engine Starters

A manufacturer of gears for automotive engine starters recently incorporated two Lenze-AC Tech PositionServo drives into it’s test process. Test engineers chose the PositionServo for two distinct features: its integrated motion control for direct connection to an upline PLC and its intuitive interface for easy operator control. Two seemingly dissimilar features of a servo drive but a true benefit of the PositionServo  drive.

The two PositionServo drives provide precise motion and torque control required on the threaded spindles, an integral part of the machine that tests the gears of the automotive engine starters. The two drives start simultaneously yet run independently, rotating the spindles to a set revolution limit while also monitoring the torque on the spindles. If the torque reaches a preset maximum value set by the EPH-H315 HMI, then the operator receives a fault message indicating sub-par threads.

The main system PLC is informed of the test failure in addition to the HMI. After acknowledgement by the PLC, both PositionServo drives revert to unscrewing mode and return the spindles to home position. The test cycle is fully automatic, however with the inclusion of the HMI, the operator is able to cycle each drive in manual mode if the need arises. Additionally, the fault diagnostics and status functions of each PositionServo are displayed on the HMI in real-time.

Please visit our user-friendly website at www.wolfautomation.com.  We have a huge product selection of industrial automation equipment.

Please send any inquiries to sales@wolfautomation.com.

Do you have problems with vibrating fork level switches? Is false triggering due to sticky media or foam an issue?

We have the solution! Our Baumer CleverLevel series provides one sensor that can handle all of your level detection tasks.

I was just thinking (praying) that our sump pump is working fine right now and figured it would be a good day to write a blog about pumps!

We have a handy section on the website that lets you search by application - here is our pumping section of products.

Marshall Wolf Automation also recently released a great trifold brochure highlighting fan and pump applications, take a look here.

We have a great tech department ready and waiting to help you with your pump applications!