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Industry 4.0 | Smart VFD Technology

PowerFlex® Variable Frequency Drives with TotalFORCE® Technology Increase Productivity and Uptime
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Industry 4.0 | Smart VFD Technology
PowerFlex® Variable Frequency Drives with TotalFORCE® Technology Increase Productivity and Uptime
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Meet Your Biggest Production Challenges with a PowerFlex VFD

Get predictive analytics, adaptive control and so much more

PowerFlex variable frequency drives with TotalFORCE technology offer high-performance motor control, advanced self-monitoring capabilities and real-time operational system data. Customers leverage this smart technology to help:

  • Increase productivity
  • Boost equipment uptime
  • Improve energy and maintenance savings

Whatever your industry or application, low voltage and medium voltage PowerFlex VFDs can help meet your production and operational efficiency goals.

95% of Fortune 100 industrial companies use products and services from Rockwell Automation and its partners

Increase Productivity with Smart Variable Frequency Drives

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
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Real-time Industrial Control Systems Increase Production

Smart motor control systems can make the difference between profit and loss. PowerFlex variable frequency drives deliver precise motor control. Plus, real-time operating system data to help boost productivity, uptime and energy savings

Unplanned downtime costs industrial manufacturers nearly $50 billion annually - Forbes

Reduce Equipment Downtime with Predictive Maintenance

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
Increase Productivity and Uptime
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Increase Productivity and Uptime

PowerFlex® 755T AC drives deliver flexible, high-performance motor control for demanding industrial applications.

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Reduce Energy Costs with a Smart VFD

Advantages of Smart VFD Technology
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Advantages of Smart VFD Technology

Investing in industrial automation with smart PowerFlex VFDs help increase factory throughput and uptime with:

  • Adaptive control, anti-sway
  • Real-time analytics, predictive maintenance alerts
  • Harmonic mitigation and power regeneration
Discover How

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

Increase Productivity, Uptime and Energy Savings

A PowerFlex VFD with TotalFORCE technology delivers real-time industrial control system intelligence

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Tire & Rubber

Reduction of unproductive time by at least 10% with efficient PowerFlex drives

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Metals

Energy efficiency that amortizes the change in technology in less than 6 months

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Mining

The energy savings in multiple applications and operations is greater than 30%

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Oil & Gas

Space optimization greater than 50% versus the space of traditional drives

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PowerFlex VFDs with TotalFORCE Technology Solve Industry Problems

  • Automotive & Tire
    inside a tire manufacturing plant, tires move down a conveyor belt. The operation is augmented with smart VFDs that control motors throughout the entire manufacturing process
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    Automotive & Tire

    As many as 200 different raw materials combine with chemistry, physics and engineering to deliver tires with the highest degree of comfort, performance, reliability and safety. PowerFlex VFDs can be used for almost the entire production process.

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  • Oil & Gas
    Offshore oil rigs depend on industrial motor controls, such as PowerFlex VFDs, to increase productivity and uptime. Panorama of oil and gas central processing platform in sun set where produced, treat the hydrocarbon then sent to refinery , petrochemical , power generation plant and tanker barge for export.
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    Oil & Gas

    The competitive nature of the oil and gas industry demands organizations continually improve their operations to maintain profitability. That’s why companies are specifying intelligent production technology in system upgrades.

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  • Mining
    Five large yellow mining trucks are hauling coal or another black mineral mined from a pit quarry.
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    Mining

    Underperforming equipment and downtime reduce your competitive advantage. A better solution relies on smart equipment. Smart VFDs deliver real-time data to help increase productivity and uptime, plus reduce energy and maintenance costs. 

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  • Metals
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    Metals

    Smart motor control devices provide real-time operating data to anticipate, quickly solve or eliminate production problems. PowerFlex VFD drive technology helps avoid unplanned downtime that can cost thousands of dollars per hour.

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  • Pulp & Paper Industry
    Inside a new paperboard mill, a overhead crane -- positioned by a PowerFlex drive -- moves a roll of new paper for processing and printing.
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    Pulp & Paper Industry

    To succeed in competitive international markets, companies must adopt innovative production technologies. Inefficient labor and processes can eliminate your competitive advantage. PowerFlex drives with TotalFORCE technology are part of the solution that you need.

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Smart Variable Frequency Drive Options

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