ANSYS Sherlock + Danfoss - Case Study

Danfoss sought continued innovation of their AC drives with the goal of reducing energy waste. Considering the thousands of variants of utilization for AC drives, Danfoss wished to improve the efficiency of their AC drives without sacrificing the abundance of deployment methods. This required ensuring that the same AC drive design that regulates motor speed for a radar array in the Arctic Circle without failing must also do so for a hard disk drive in an office in California without wasting energy.

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