Fuji Electric clinches 2015 Frost & Sullivan Award
Fuji Electric Asia Pacific senior manager of Drive & Automation Division, Johnny Chia (R) receiving the award from Sapan Agarwal (L), senior director, Frost & Sullivan.
Fuji Electric, has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2015 Best Practices Awards in the Electric Drive Market for Machine Automation category. The award was presented in Singapore last week.
Frost & Sullivan, a market research and consulting firm, selected Fuji Electric for the effectiveness of its product strategy and execution, competitive differentiation, price/performance value and customer purchase experience.
Since the development of its first general purpose variable speed drives in the 70s, Fuji Electric's portfolio grown to include low and medium voltage markets. The newest addition to Fuji Electric's series of low voltage variable speed drives, the FRENIC-VG Series, is equipped with SiC power semiconductors that realise a higher withstand voltage and lower loss.
Application of the SiC hybrid module has made it possible to reduce the loss in a power conversion circuit by 28 percent from existing models, and contribute to significant energy saving at facilities, according to the company.
Fuji says that the SiC module has increased the single-unit capacity from the existing models' maximum of 315kW to a maximum of 450 kW while maintaining the same product physical size. This makes it possible to reduce the number of variable speed drives installed.
The FRENIC-VG Series are in use in production facilities of iron and steel, chemical, papermaking, mining, water, harbor cranes and other large plants.
