STEEL STEEL FEED FEED ROLL ROLL LINE DRIVES LINE DRIVES UPDA UPDA TE TE Speed Reference Generator with Load Sharing Overview Co-Bar Corporation produces steel bars which are sold to the automotive industry to produce coil springs for suspensions. Co-Bar asked another vendor to double the horsepower of the Motors and Drives that powered their steel feed roll line. The additional horsepower meant that the customer could draw a wider range of steel, creating a more versatile machine. As a result of the increase HP and revised control scheme, the machine was unable to create straight bars. "Waves" or ripples that occur in the bars strike the sides of the induction heaters as the bars pass through, destroying a portion of the fabrication device. The customer called an independent consulting f

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