Industrial & General Purpose Motors Articles

On a textile winding machine, what determines the motor choice is how the load changes as the roll grows. If fabric is wound at constant speed and constant tension, when the roll d... More Details

When choosing the turntable motor of a pallet stretch wrapper, the real compatibility is between the motor and the gearbox: the motor speed and the gearbox ratio determine the tabl... More Details

On a diamond wire saw, the main motor sets the cutting speed of the wire by turning the drive wheel. That is why three questions are answered together when choosing the motor: how ... More Details

When replacing the motor on a pillar drill, the easiest route is to choose a motor with the same power, the same number of poles and the same shaft diameter as the old one and to m... More Details

The main motor of a universal lathe is chosen to match the power and speed on the lathe's nameplate, preferably with the same number of poles and the same mounting arrangement. All... More Details

When you replace the motor on a metal band saw, the way to keep the blade speed unchanged is to choose the new motor with the same number of poles (usually 4 poles, the 1,500 rpm c... More Details

A single fixed speed is not enough on a wood lathe: a large-diameter bowl blank must turn slowly, while a thin pen or spindle job must turn fast. This wide speed range used to be o... More Details

What determines motor selection for a surface planer is the speed at which the cutter block (cutter head) must turn and how that speed is obtained from the motor by belt. On most p... More Details

In a food mixing tank, the two quantities that determine motor power are the product's consistency (viscosity) and the speed of the agitator shaft; a motor chosen without consideri... More Details

When choosing a motor for a food slicing machine, the first question is not power but the speed at which the blade turns and how that speed reaches the blade from the motor. If the... More Details

Two things determine motor power in a tomato paste machine (pulper/passatore): how thick and fibrous the incoming product is, and the hole diameter of the screen through which the ... More Details

For an industrial meat mincer, motor selection starts with the plate (perforated disc) size and the amount of meat processed per day, but what makes a replacement successful is rea... More Details

Replacing the motor of a planetary mixer depends less on the motor's power than on reading the gearbox and the mixer's duty cycle correctly. In a planetary mixer the motor drives a... More Details

On a plastic raw material mixer, the motor and gearbox are selected as a package: the gearbox determines the speed and torque that the mixer shaft needs, and the motor must have en... More Details

What strains the motor of an agglomerator is not a single load but a load curve that repeats with every batch: it starts light with an empty drum, the current climbs as the film he... More Details

On the squeezer of a plastic washing line, the motor drives a slow-turning screw through a gearbox, and its hardest moment is the start, when it tries to turn a screw that is full ... More Details

When replacing the motor of a plastic extruder, the first value to look at is not power but the torque required by the screw shaft. An extruder screw is a constant-torque load that... More Details

What strains the motor most in a tyre shredding machine is not the average load but the short, hard torque shocks that occur at the moments when rubber and steel wire break between... More Details

In a plastic shredder the rotor turns only a few dozen revolutions per minute, but it needs very high torque to tear the material. This torque is not produced by the motor alone bu... More Details

In a barn manure scraper, the motor is part of a drive unit that works very slowly but with very high pulling force. For a correct selection, before the motor power, the output spe... More Details