From Grid to Motion: How Industrial Electrification is Redefining Power System Design
From Grid to Motion: How Industrial Electrification is Redefining Power System Design
Knowles Webinar
Industrial electrification is driving a fundamental shift in how power is generated, converted, and applied across industrial systems. This webinar examines the seven-stage industrial electrification chain—from renewable generation and energy storage to motor drives, robotics, mobile electrification, and industrial heating—showing how the move to inverter-based architectures is reshaping system design. With capacitors serving as the common enabling technology at every stage, the session highlights where and why aluminum electrolytic, film, and supercapacitors are used, how they address demands such as lifetime, ripple handling, and fast transient response, and how hybrid approaches are unlocking new performance and reliability gains as industry accelerates its transition away from fossil fuels.
Overview
Industrial electrification is driving a fundamental transformation in how energy is generated, converted, and applied across industrial systems. As industries shift away from fossil-fuel–based processes, electrification is emerging not as a single market, but as a megatrend spanning renewable generation, energy storage, electric vehicle infrastructure, motion control, mobile equipment, and industrial heating. This webinar introduces the seven-stage industrial electrification chain, framing the scope and scale of this transition and the increasing reliance on power electronics-based architectures.
Across every stage of the electrification chain, capacitors serve as the common enabling technology, performing critical roles such as DC link energy storage, EMI suppression, ripple current handling, fast transient buffering, and system protection. The session explores how electrification is increasing both the quantity and performance demands of capacitors, and why design requirements like lifetime, reliability, efficiency, and safety are becoming more stringent as systems operate at higher power densities and voltages.
The webinar concludes with a technology level perspective on aluminum electrolytic, film, and supercapacitors, examining where each excels and why hybrid approaches are increasingly common in modern industrial designs. Through real application examples—from motor drives and robotics to BESS, AGVs, and industrial heating—attendees will gain practical insight into how component level decisions shape system performance, reliability, and total cost of ownership in the rapidly electrifying industrial landscape.
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Key Takeaways
- Recognize that industrial electrification is a broad, system level shift—not a single market
- Understand how capacitors enable every stage of the electrification power chain
- Learn how aluminum electrolytic, film, and supercapacitors each play distinct roles, but often work together in hybrid architectures
Speaker
Trent Carroll, Product Manager, Knowles’ Cornell Dubilier Brand
Trent Carroll currently manages Knowles’ Cornell Dubilier brand of aluminum electrolytic screw terminal capacitors, supercapacitors, and rechargeable batteries. He brings broad product management experience across a wide range of capacitor technologies, having supported every type of electrolytic capacitor offered by Knowles’ Cornell Dubilier brand — along with select board-level film products. Carroll works closely with engineering, sales, and marketing to translate technical capabilities into clear, market-focused product strategies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics with an engineering focus from Auburn University, including coursework in aerospace engineering, and a Certificate in Data Analytics.
