Power-IO is announcing the 'H' (hockey puck-sized, solid-state relay) family of precise zero-crossing motor starters. Dr Emmanouel Pagounis looks at the use of 'smart' electro-activated materials such as magnetic shape memory. Stefan Melly looks ahead to the forthcoming changes to the standards dealing with the suppression of interference. A motion control system based on a standalone intelligent drive, is providing a flexible upgrade for Kappa's wrap-around packaging machinery. Leo Birkkjaer looks at a drive which offers a wide range of essential programmable logic controller functions built in as standard. In a highly competitive drives market, fuelled by a growing awareness of how variable speed drive (VSD) can save expensive energy, manufacturers need to compete by offering drives based on advanced technology that gives the user real benefits, both savings in costs and time and in the control of applications. Watt Drive has re-engineered and optimised its complete inverter programme. A crucial central component of almost any machine is a motor, the device that turns electrical energy into mechanical energy for the use of the process. CMR Fuel Cells Limited, based in Cambridge, UK, is dedicated to the development of a revolutionary flow-through fuel cell utilising mixed reactants. Fuel cells are said by many people to offer almost the ideal source of power for applications ranging from mobile telephones to automobiles. Almost all domestic vacuum cleaners utilise an ac series wound electric motor to spin the fan that generates suction and airflow. Power-IO is announcing the 'H' (hockey puck-sized, solid-state relay) family of precise zero-crossing motor starters. Dr Emmanouel Pagounis looks at the use of 'smart' electro-activated materials such as magnetic shape memory. Stefan Melly looks ahead to the forthcoming changes to the standards dealing with the suppression of interference. A motion control system based on a standalone intelligent drive, is providing a flexible upgrade for Kappa's wrap-around packaging machinery. Leo Birkkjaer looks at a drive which offers a wide range of essential programmable logic controller functions built in as standard. In a highly competitive drives market, fuelled by a growing awareness of how variable speed drive (VSD) can save expensive energy, manufacturers need to compete by offering drives based on advanced technology that gives the user real benefits, both savings in costs and time and in the control of applications. Watt Drive has re-engineered and optimised its complete inverter programme. A crucial central component of almost any machine is a motor, the device that turns electrical energy into mechanical energy for the use of the process. CMR Fuel Cells Limited, based in Cambridge, UK, is dedicated to the development of a revolutionary flow-through fuel cell utilising mixed reactants. Fuel cells are said by many people to offer almost the ideal source of power for applications ranging from mobile telephones to automobiles. Almost all domestic vacuum cleaners utilise an ac series wound electric motor to spin the fan that generates suction and airflow.