Industrial IE4 Low-Voltage Motors Rapidly Establishing a Presence in the High-Efficiency Motor Market

IE4低壓工業(yè)電機(jī)在高效電機(jī)市場(chǎng)迅速占據(jù)一席之地

While the majority of the world continues to transition to higher efficiency IE2, IE3 and NEMA Premium low-voltage (LV) motors, IE4 motors marketed to the industrial machinery market as “Super Premium Efficiency” motors have rapidly carved out a space in the high efficiency motor market.

隨著全球大多數(shù)的繼續(xù)向更高的效率IE2，IE3和NEMA高效低壓電機(jī)過渡，作為工業(yè)機(jī)械市場(chǎng) “超高效”電機(jī)銷售的IE4電機(jī)迅速在高效電機(jī)市場(chǎng)占據(jù)其一席之地。

Since 2009, this market has posted consecutive, double-digit growth rates and almost quadrupled in value in 2013 to reach $114.7 million with nearly 259,000 units shipped. Although a relatively small market compared to the entire global integral horsepower industrial LV motor market, this niche market for high efficiency motors is predicted to grow robustly to $297.3 million by 2018. IHS believes that growth in this LV motor market segment has been ignited by regional legislation for stand-alone LV motors.

自2009年以來，IE4電機(jī)市場(chǎng)已連續(xù)錄得兩位數(shù)的增長(zhǎng)率，份額幾乎翻了兩番，2013年市場(chǎng)容量達(dá)1.147億美元，出貨量近25.9萬臺(tái)。雖然相對(duì)全球的整數(shù)功率低壓工業(yè)電機(jī)市場(chǎng)，這個(gè)市場(chǎng)還是很小，但作為高效電機(jī)的利基市場(chǎng)，預(yù)計(jì)到2018年，IE4的市場(chǎng)份額將強(qiáng)勁增長(zhǎng)至2.97億美元。IHS認(rèn)為這個(gè)低壓電機(jī)細(xì)分市場(chǎng)的增長(zhǎng)已經(jīng)被單機(jī)低壓電機(jī)的區(qū)域立法所點(diǎn)燃。

It’s notable that no government legislation exists that mandates IE4 Super Premium Efficiency motors be sold at a certain date, like its AC induction IE2, IE3 and NEMA Premium counterparts, making the purchase of these motors by the industrial machinery market a decision based purely on the high efficiencies and the quicker return on investment.

這是值得注意的是，政府立法并沒有像IE2，IE3和NEMA高效電機(jī)等一樣，規(guī)定了IE4超高效電機(jī)必須在某一特定日期開始銷售，工業(yè)機(jī)械市場(chǎng)購買這些電機(jī)的決定純粹基于高效以及投資回報(bào)更快等因素。

The rapid evolution of this market is well-documented. In 2009, two suppliers controlled the majority of the market, with both focusing on a neodymium-based magnet design. By 2013, twenty suppliers including traditional LV motor manufacturers as well as end-equipment manufacturers have thrown their respective hats into the ring, bringing with them new and established IE4 motor technologies. Even though the International Electrochemical Commission (IEC) has only defined the line-start, asynchronous version of IE4 motors in early 2014, suppliers have capitalized on marketing their IE4 motors as “Super Premium Efficiency” starting in 2009 and have continued to experience a positive reaction from the industrial machinery market.

這個(gè)市場(chǎng)的迅速發(fā)展具有良好的記錄。2009年，兩家供應(yīng)商控制了該市場(chǎng)的大部分份額，主要集中于釹基磁體的設(shè)計(jì)。到2013年，有二十家供應(yīng)商加入這個(gè)領(lǐng)域的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，包括傳統(tǒng)的低壓電機(jī)制造商以及終端設(shè)備制造商，帶來了他們現(xiàn)有的以及新的IE4電機(jī)技術(shù)。盡管國際電工委員會(huì)（IEC）僅僅在2014年初定義了異步起動(dòng)，IE4電機(jī)的異步版本，但供應(yīng)商從2009年開始就已經(jīng)把IE4電機(jī)作為“超高效”電機(jī)推向市場(chǎng)，并持續(xù)從機(jī)械工業(yè)取得積極的市場(chǎng)反應(yīng)。