American Superconductor Industrial Solutions

Ensuring power quality at the end-user level.

Twenty-first century industrial companies are embracing automation, miniaturization and computer-controlled manufacturing processes to boost their productivity and be more competitive.

However, advanced systems can be highly sensitive to even the briefest variations in electrical power quality. When power quality declines for even a few milliseconds, computer-driven devices can fail on several levels:

• Adjustable speed drives can stop
• Fuses can blow
• Lights can blink
• Motors can slow down
• PLCs and other process control equipment can drop out

The power quality problem is a costly one: Sandia National Laboratories estimates that power disturbances cost U.S. businesses $150 billion every year. $114 billion of that figure can be traced directly to momentary voltage sags and other voltage regulation problems.

Discover industry-proven power solutions.

Today, American Superconductor’s power quality products are answering the needs of a variety of industries, including auto parts manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, chemicals, data center protection and high-energy physics.
 

Click to learn about AMSC solutions for industry:

     >>PQ-IVR® Power Quality Industrial Voltage Restorers
     >>SVC Static VAR Compensators 
     >>Superconductor Motors and Generators
 

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