Smart VFD Technology

Turn your manufacturing line into a strategic advantage

Often the workhorses of your operations, PowerFlex VFDs deliver the power you need to drive optimal productivity and provide the real-time information to let your teams make fast decisions to stay up and running.

Unlike other VFDs in the market, PowerFlex variable frequency drives with TotalFORCE technology can:

• Reduce start-up time with automatic drive tuning and adaptive control that automatically adapts to operating conditions and adjusts to maintain production
• Predict internal component life, monitor attached assets and provide advanced notification to reduce unplanned downtime
• Prevent production waste with advanced information to reduce unplanned shutdown events
• Provide a layer of defense against the effects of corrosion with XT corrosive gas protection

PowerFlex VFDs with TotalFORCE technology offer a proactive uptime approach

With the right information about the health of your system, you can reduce downtime, maintenance and spare parts costs and mechanical wear.

Operators are notified of issues that can compromise VFDs or motor health, such as overheating, blown fuses or component runtime hours. With predictive analytics data, you can take action and control your shutdown, repairing or replacing equipment during scheduled downtime.

Increase equipment uptime with real-time data:

• Modeling the equipment’s expected outputs
• Receiving notifications over a secure Ethernet network when drive components reach a preset stage of predicted life
• Receiving motor control performance data in real time – continuously monitoring system health
• Setting analytic models to measure ambient temperature, equipment speed or other characteristics

Energy consumption is one of the biggest operating costs in manufacturing

Efficient PowerFlex variable frequency drives meet new energy directives for Ecodesign, enabling you to "right size" drives to your application power needs.

• Available active front end technology delivers regenerative energy onto the incoming power supply
• Adaptive control helps achieve optimal drive tuning to maximize output current and motor torque
• Energy pause reduces fan speed and sets PowerFlex 755T drives or Bus Supply into a low energy state
• Harmonic mitigation and power factor correction can reduce energy use
• Reducing motor speed can save up to 50% of its energy use
• Ensure energy efficient operations. Test and validate the PowerFlex VFD and motor combination that is most productive
• Reduce peak energy charges with a synchronous transfer system with PowerFlex 6000T VFDs. It matches power output to the utility’s line power with seamless sync-up and sync-down transition