Webinar


Decarbonize with industrial drives

16 May 2024 | 9 am CEST / 3 pm CST & 5 pm CEST / 11 am EDT

Industrial drive systems consume approximately 30% of the world's electrical energy, making them a significant contributor to global energy consumption. Infineon's TRENCHSTOP™ IGBT7 and CoolSiC™ technologies increases the efficiency of your industrial drive design, ultimately resulting in cost savings for you and a more sustainable future for all. In this webinar, we will explore how to make industrial drive systems more energy-efficient with our solutions, focusing on EiceDRIVER™ isolated gate drivers. You will learn about short circuit detection and turn-off using DESAT and the soft-turn-off feature, as well as the advantages of two-level slew rate control in drives. Additionally, we will compare peak IOUT and IOUT@Miller plateau with respect to switching losses. Register now and get ready to make your industrial drive systems more efficient and contribute to a more sustainable future.

What you will learn:

  • How to make industrial drive systems more energy-efficient
  • Why the right EiceDRIVER™ isolated gate driver makes a difference
  • Short circuit detection and turn-off using DESAT and the soft-turn-off feature
  • Two-level slew rate control advantages in drives
  • Comparison of Peak IOUT and IOUT@Miller plateau with respect to switching losses

Meet your speakers

Wolf-Dieter Bähre, Global Director Application Management Industrial Automation

Wolf-Dieter Baehre's experience encompasses industrial drives, motors, and machinery. He began his career in 1999 as Electro-Machine-Builder at Steinlen and holds a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) in Mechatronics and an MBA specializing in collaboration. He worked from 2005 at Danfoss Drives, progressing from service and service management through OEM system design and optimization to product marketing and management.

In 2022 he then joined Infineon as Global Director Application Marketing and Management Industrial Drives and nowadays is the Global Director of Application Management Industrial Automation.

Gabriel Cretu,  Product Definition/Application Engineer for Industrial Isolated Gate Drivers

Gabriel Cretu has a MSc degree in Electronics Engineering with focus on microelectronics and IC Design. In 2012 he joined the Robert Bosch Center for Power Electronics as a research assistant, where he worked on a Measurement System for Power Semiconductor Characterization in the μs Range, as well as on a new high-speed driver for IGBT modules allowing improved switching efficiency.

He joined Infineon in 2017 as an ESD Engineer for automotive integrated power technologies and changed to the gate drivers technical marketing team in 2022, now supporting feasibility studies, application investigations and optimizations on new IC products.