Electric Motor – Used to power machines in industrial automation.

Electric motor – On this web-page you will be able to find information about the electro motor, also called induction motor. An electrical current is being used to generate a turning magnetic field in the stator, then this magnetic field induces a current and magnetic field in the rotor. Those two field basically push each other away, which results in a running electro motor. A detailed description of this working principal can be found at Wikipedia, here is the exact web page location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor .

An other website with the explanation on how electric-motors work can be found at HowStuffWorks. There you will find an explanation on the basic parts. This will help you in the understanding of what a commercially used, of what an electro motor used in for example industrial automation of machines, is made of, what the different components are and how it functions.This web-page can be found here: http://www.howstuffworks.com/motor.htm .

It will be obvious by now that electrical motors come in different shapes and sizes according to their use. Examples of these different kinds of electric-motors can be found at Grainger. According to the use of the engine different characteristics will be needed. Based on these needed characteristics you will make your choice as an engineer, on which motor you will need to use.On the Grainger website you will be able to find a selection of commonly used type of electricalmotors. This page can be found here: http://www.grainger.com/production/info/electric-motor.htm .

Other interesting place to visit on the web with information about electro-motors are:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic/elemot.html

http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/electricmotors.html

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/HomopolarMotor

http://www.electricmotors.machinedesign.com/

http://www.emotorstore.com/

http://www.simplemotor.com/

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~palmer/motor.html

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