OEMs
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) provide standard
solutions to a particular problem, such as packaging machines or
air handling units. Drives are installed and supplied as part
of the equipment. OEMs seek to reduce their costs through
leveraging economies of scale and by creating customer
value with differentiated products.
Create and preserve your differential advantage
Product differentiation is achieved by offering customers
something of value that is difficult to copy and therefore can
not be offered by competitors. Control Techniques can help you
to create your differential advantage in the following ways:
- Control Techniques has a reputation for designing and
manufacturing high performance, innovative drive
products. Our drives range offers total
flexibility with high performance motor control, integrated
automation controllers, fieldbus and ethernet communications
and compact dimensions.
- Our global network of Control Techniques Drive
Centres provide local expertise to OEMs around the
world. Our drive system engineers have
experience automating a wide range of equipment.
- We welcome early involvement in your design process,
allowing you to get advice from our drive
experts. We understand the full capabilities
of modern drive systems and how to ensure
you achieve the optimum cost/performance balance
for your equipment.
- Control Techniques allow you to protect your Intellectual
Property (IP) by preventing customers and competitors from
accessing your automation software.
Streamline your operations
Control Techniques' products help OEMs to realise cost
advantages through standardised flexible drives that offer the
following benefits:
- Drives can be customised at any point using software
selectable operating modes and click-in option modules; this
reduces stockholding and simplifies supply chains.
- Most Control Techniques products use pluggable terminals; this
allow wiring looms to be created reducing cost
and installation time.
- Drive configuration is achieved easily using autotune
features and the SMARTCARD to store and transfer parameter
sets from one drive to another.
- Ethernet connectivity allow the drives to be accessed around
the world using internet technologies therefore
reducing the cost of supporting your equipment.
- Control Techniques products are
reliable therefore reducing support costs and
improving your reputation.
Reduce your development time
Getting your products to market quickly is critical in retaining
or creating your differential advantage. We help you to
achieve this through the following:
- Most of our products are supplied with CAD drawings in 2D
and 3D formats, enabling you to easily integrate our
drives within your equipment.
- Onboard automation controllers such as our SM-Applications
module uses programming languages that are based on industry
standards for function block, sequential function chart,
structured text and ladder logic. This reduces your
learning curve when using Control Techniques drives for the first
time.
- Intuitive software tools such as CTScope provide real-time
access to the drives functionality allowing you to monitor and
quickly solve machine development problems. Most Control
Techniques software tools are supplied free of
charge.
- We offer a wide range of training courses that cover all of our
drive technologies.
Our engineers can help you to maximise the performance of
your machines, to make contact with your
nearest Control Techniques Drive Centre or Reseller click here