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Staying ahead of competition while meeting your business goals may have never been harder than it is right now. To be successful, you will have to stay on top of the latest trends and technologies in the market. Below are archives to recent newsletters sent to the Automation & Power World online community.

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Power Products/Power Systems Low Voltage Drives and Motors
Low Voltage Products Medium Voltage Products Renewables
Power Generation Process Automation Products All Industry

Power Products/Power Systems

APW Newsletter – Value over price - Why total cost of ownership trumps initial capital investment
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FEATURE: As the economy starts to recover, it will be important for utilities to find a way to address imminent problems and long term concerns, prioritize spending, and identify and mitigate risks.
APW Newsletter – Knowing the FACTS
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FEATURE: The benefits of Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) can reduce, if not eliminate, the investments needed to upgrade the railway power feeding infrastructure. Download the article to read more about how FACTS are enhancing power quality in rail feeder systems.
APW Newsletter – IEC 618550
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FEATURE: This special 64-page edition of ABB Review looks at this truly global and unifying standard from different angles and relates the experiences ABB has had based on its vast installed base built during the years. It also shares some possible future developments.
APW Newsletter - Using Smart Grid data to power end-to-end asset health management
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FEATURE: Using Smart Grid data to power end-to-end asset health management. The electrical power industry in North America is both asset- and labor-intensive and it is saddled with an aging infrastructure requiring continuous care and upgrades.
APW Newsletter - Improving a projects rate of return
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FEATURE 1: Improving a project's rate of return. FEATURE 2: Battery energy storage: Optimize integration of renewable energy to the grid.

Low Voltage Drives and Motors

APW Newsletter -- Energy Efficiency- The Other Alternative Fuel
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FEATURE: Learn how to achieve substantial energy savings today without waiting for the “alternative fuels” of the future by applying a suite of cost-effective power and automation solutions from technology leaders like ABB.
APW Newsletter - Keeping food safe, using ABB’s energy management and automation expertise, while saving 35% in energy costs
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FEATURE: Keeping food safe, using ABB’s energy management and automation expertise, while saving 35% in energy costs. Throughout the year, countless pounds of perishable food items are produced, transported and stored nationwide.
APW Newsletter - Driving down carbon emmissions
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FEATURE 1: Driving down carbon emmissions: Environmental payback analysis with ABB Drives. FEATURE 2: Three easy steps to sizing motors and drives.

Low Voltage Products

APW Newsletter – Ten steps to lean electrical control
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FEATURE: Learn how to leverage Lean Operations, A Lean Supply Chain, and Lean Design of your electrical panels to meet your key goals.
APW Newsletter -- Directional protection and directional zone selectivity
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FEATURE: Learn the potential and the use of directional protection and directional zone selectivity functions. Take an in depth look at everything you need to know, from basic definitions and applications to a thorough practical guide.
APW Newsletter -- Arc flash and other hazards in the data center
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FEATURE: Webinar shows how to prevent arc flash and avoid other dangerous situations in the data center and what steps to take to protect your workers and your equipment.
APW Newsletter -- Saving the best for last- Soft starters or variable-speed drives or both
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FEATURE: This white paper walks you through how you can make your operation more energy efficient by selecting the appropriate technology for your application.
APW Newsletter - 10 steps to lean electrical controls
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FEATURE: Ten Steps to Lean Electrical Controls. In this white paper, learn how you can leverage Lean Operations, A Lean Supply Chain, and Lean Design of your electrical panels to meet your key goals.

Medium Voltage Drives

APW Newsletter – The 5-level converter
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FEATURE: Modern power electronics have revolutionized the delivery and usage of electrical power. In the area of drives, the ability to arbitrarily select and even continuously vary the output voltage frequency and amplitude of an inverter has permitted significant gains in energy efficiency and controllability.

Renewables

APW Newsletter - HVDC Light for Large Scale Offshore Wind Integration
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FEATURE: This article describes a concept to connect the world’s largest, most remote offshore wind farm to the German grid using ABB HVDC Light® transmission technology.
APW Newsletter – Controlling costs in a highly competitive, dynamic solar industry
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FEATURE: The demand for solar energy has encouraged many component suppliers to jump into the market. This has provided new sourcing options and lower prices, but also challenges buyers to identify reliable, long-term suppliers.
APW Newsletter - ABB Strengthens Wind Energy Supply Chain and Wind Energy Projects
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FEATURE: ABB Strengthens Wind Energy Supply Chain and Wind Energy Projects. In this article from the ARC Advisory Group, the authors discuss ABB’s role as an electrical balance-of-plant supplier, or “eBOP.”
APW Newsletter - Six stages of solar bankability
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FEATURE: Six Stages of Solar Bankability. Despite intense interest in greater reliance on solar power, large-scale deployment continues to be hindered by financial risks.

Power Generation

APW Newsletter – Energy efficient design of auxiliary systems in fossil-fuel power plants
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FEATURE: Learn about four examples of how ABB solutions have achieved measureable improvements in energy efficiency and lower emissions, as well as in reliability and output.
APW Newsletter -- Todays digital intelligence in power generation - Optimizing Assets at the plant portfolio and enterprise levels
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FEATURE: Owner/operators need to consider the design/architecture, operation and maintenance, and life cycle aspects of this “brain” in a more holistic fashion. One way to do this is to consider the distributed control system (DCS) as the DAI platform for the plant.

Process Automation Products

APW Newsletter - Three Keys to Maximize Process Automation Lifecycle
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FEATURE: Learn how taking a lifecycle approach to system maintenance can provide continually higher levels of performance while vastly extending system longevity.
APW Newsletter -- 5 Ways To Improve Safety and Profitability, Without Disrupting Operations
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FEATURE: By focusing on specific aspects of safety, plant managers can move beyond simply managing this risk and unlock untapped operating effectiveness, without making large investments.
APW Newsletter -- Four technologies that reduce cost and improve safety
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FEATURE: Learn the four technologies that can simplify safety processes, ease the burden of staying current with evolving standards and provide more assured compliance with specified safety ratings – all while reducing overall safety costs.
APW Newsletter – Four keys to keeping your plant running
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FEATURE: Learn how a consistent maintenance plan will deliver more uptime, reduce costs and enhance safety.

All Industry

APW Newsletter -- ABB drives in chemical oil and gas - Medium voltage drives for greater profitability and performance
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FEATURE: Achieving high levels of efficiency and availability in the chemical, oil and gas industries will translate directly to an increased production output and an improved product quality.
APW Newsletter – Driving down carbon emissions
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FEATURE: Learn how to assess the payback time for equipment, and how you can achieve significant savings by using variable speed drives.
APW Newsletter - A worthwhile investment - The drive to reduce emissions and energy consumption
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FEATURE: A new approach to the assessment of environmental impacts shows that the environmental payback time of variable speed drives can be even shorter, in many cases as little as one to two days.
APW Newsletter – Data center trends - DC power industrial controls and connection to the smart grid
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FEATURE: Learn three technologies that can help improve reliability and cost in your data center application.

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