Optimizing Motor Management and

Sustainability with Schneider Variable speed drive (VSD) 

Importance of Motor Management 

Motor reliability is a crucial element in cutting down manufacturing expenses, and it demands serious attention if a company aims to enhance its return on investment in motor assets. Simply stockpiling spare motors isn't a cost-effective solution to reliability issues. Instead, what's needed is a comprehensive approach to motor management and upkeep that covers the entire lifespan of the motors, starting from meticulous specification and qualification and continuing through monitoring assets and their integration within systems over time.

For a company aspiring to achieve excellence, becoming top-tier in motor management and maintenance is non-negotiable. Motor management optimization brings together these two key industrial elements to improve the long-term sustainability of your industrial systems while improving motor application performance, cost savings, and energy efficiency. let's see how to optimize motor Management below. 

Optimizing Motor Management  

Schneider has a motor design process with the Schneider EcoStruxure Motor Management design tool, which has two benefits and functions:

1. Design: save 80% time in the “what if” analyses in design decision-making, as the EcoStruxure Motor Management Design tool combines extensive power system engineering calculations and component selection. It integrates all the design aspects of your application in one place to help you build a complete motor management architecture.
2. Energy savings: you can analyze for energy savings With the EcoStruxure Motor Management Design tool. Based on motor application characteristics of variable speed drive with usual flow control, you get an immediate analysis of:
   a. Energy and cost saved per year, using a Variable Speed Drive
   b. Payback period of Variable Speed Drive investment
   c. Pollution reduction per year

With the effective design, engineering, and management of motor applications, efficiently run motors can significantly contribute to a company’s sustainability, energy usage, and CO2 emission reductions. It can also help optimize an application's performance, productivity, reliability, and safety, all of which lead to less unplanned downtime and fewer plant stoppages. Key Impact of Optimizing Motor Management: 

• Improved Motor Availability: Achieving a 20% improvement in motor availability ensures smoother operations and minimizes disruptions due to motor failures.
• Reduced Motor Downtime: With a 50% reduction in motor downtime, companies can avoid costly delays and maintain consistent production schedules.
• Faster Recovery After Unexpected Stops: The ability to recover four times faster after unexpected motor stops enhances operational resilience and minimizes productivity losses.
• Optimal Voltage Levels: By optimizing voltage levels, companies can realize a 20% return on investment costs, maximizing the efficiency of their motor operations.
• Cost Reduction Through Enhanced Design Engineering: Up to a 30% reduction in solution costs can be achieved through improved design engineering, making motor management solutions more cost-effective.

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The Best Variable speed drive (VSD) for Optimizing Motor Management 

Optimized motor management solutions are one of the key ways that your company can reduce CO2 emissions, especially when you include a Schneider Electric Altivar Process drive in your design. Altivar drives have built-in IIoT intelligence that can be customized to your motor application to increase performance while improving safety and reliability. These drives can also help reduce power consumption and boost efficiency, with results such as:

• Up to 50% energy savings (over direct line motor starters)
• Up to 20% reduction in downtime
• 8% additional savings (over a standard drive)
• Reduce CO² emissions

IIoT with Altivar Process Variable Speed Drive 

What is the Altivar Process? 

Altivar Process is a range of variable speed drive (VSD) manufactured by Schneider Electric. These drives are designed specifically for process industries, offering advanced control capabilities to optimize the operation of pumps, fans, compressors, and other industrial equipment. Altivar Process drives are known for their reliability, energy efficiency, and flexibility in adapting to various industrial applications. They incorporate advanced features such as embedded process control algorithms, communication protocols for integration into automation systems, and remote monitoring capabilities for enhanced performance and maintenance. These drives are crucial in improving process efficiency, reducing energy consumption, and enhancing overall productivity in industrial settings.

Altivar Process is RoHS and REACH compliant:

• Transparent environment information
• Life Cycle Analysis, compliant with ISO 14025
• Circularity Profile

Benefits

• Maximize process continuity and operation
• Reduce your OPEX
• Easy scalability of your automation system
• Future-ready solution for Industry 4.0
• Improve the power quality of your system with a low investment
• Improve the Safety Integrity Level (SIL), and/or Performance Level (PEL), integration, and performance of your application
• Optimize your maintenance costs and the drive's service life

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