{"id":11468,"date":"2019-10-30T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/?p=11468"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T14:30:50","slug":"smart-motor-brake-stops-band-saw-in-less-than-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/smart-motor-brake-stops-band-saw-in-less-than-a-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Motor Brake Stops Band Saw in Less Than a Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Problem: <\/strong>Blade Wear with frequent replacement causing lost production time.<\/p>\n<p>Operations needed to change the band saw blades several times daily. Before the blade could be replaced it needed to decelerate to a complete stop. This typically would take 30 minutes which resulted in costly down time, and costly replacement of the blades.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Benshaw Solution: <\/strong>Benshaw designed a system to replace the across the line starter using the MX2 soft starter in combination with the SMB \u2013 Smart Motor Brake. The saw stops in less than a minute, and also adds the functionality of an emergency stop. This allowed the user to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce the initial current inrush<\/li>\n<li>Eliminates mechanical stress placed on the system<\/li>\n<li>Applies D\/C to the windings of the motor to apply braking for quicker stopping times<\/li>\n<li>Reduces mechanical cost of the overall system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><em>Electrical Solutions to Mechanical Problems<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Benshaw is widely recognized as a leading provider of applied motor control technologies. We thrive on complex applications and work diligently to bring cost-effective solutions to our customers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26245\" src=\"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/benshaw-tagline-500px.png\" alt=\"Rapid. Rugged. Global.\" width=\"40%\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/benshaw-tagline-500px.png 500w, https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/benshaw-tagline-500px-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To stop an industrial bandsaw more quickly, Benshaw designed a system to replace the existing across the line starter with an MX2 soft starter in combination with a Smart Motor Brake (SMB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benshaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}