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Intelligent Motor Control is the Key to Energy Efficiency

Without the proper motor control systems and components, corporate sustainability goals and plant-floor uptime goals remain mutually exclusive.

From a technology perspective, the breadth of motor control products provides unlimited ways to both conserve energy and meet uptime goals. Soft starters offer basic motor control, while more sophisticated variable-frequency drives (VFD) can give you parameters to detect, measure and trend energy use for more efficient operation and savings.

Our Intelligent Motor Control combines industry-leading motor control solutions with the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture to help manufacturers maximise control and motor efficiency. The combination of Rockwell Automation motor control with Integrated Architecture can result in benefits including faster system design, higher performance, better ability to predict and prevent downtime and faster response to changes.
Intelligent Motor Control solutions provide energy monitoring, control and reporting tools that help slash energy consumption and data collection. This data lets you model your energy profiles by measuring peak demands and power quality parameters; determining demand patterns; correlating energy consumption to weather patterns; aggregating loads; and calculating energy costs by business group, department or site.

CENTERLINE® Motor Control Centres (MCCs) with IntelliCENTER® technology use built-in networking, pre-configured and tested software to enhance performance through system-wide communications, share diagnostic information for predictive maintenance and initiate warnings before potential faults occur. IntelliCENTER technology enhances the intelligence of an MCC using built-in networking to capture information used for predictive maintenance, process monitoring and advanced diagnostics.

The technology behind Rockwell Automation Intelligent Motor Control can provide both an immediate and measurable impact on your energy use and operational efficiency.

You can improve your power factor and help control peak demand to help lower your utility bill. You can cut your energy consumption…sometimes by 30% or more.

Energy savings combined with data-driven technology that protects motors, enables higher motor performance and increased efficiency – all to achieve greater cost-savings benefits and to support sustainable production programmes. The technological tools are available. Finding a solution starts with you taking an objective look around your plant floor.
For more information, please e-mail us at: info_at@ra.rockwell.com with ref: IMC