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intelligent Power & Motor Control Centre for continuous and critical process

Challenges
In today's highly competitive markets, actors in industry and infrastructure need to maximise production time ensuring that installations are operational within the specified time periods, increasing the dependability of the production tool in total safety, reducing costs, saving energy and boosting their competitiveness.
Solutions
The MotorSys™ iPMCC solutions are the keystone of the LV energy efficiency of workshops. They ensure the power supply as well as the control and protection of electric motors and loads.
They include a complete range of functions for:
– the power circuit protection and control (intelligent Power Control Centre - iPCC)
– the motor control and protection (intelligent Motor Control Centre - iMCC)
– the LV electrical energy management (intelligent Power & Motor Control Centre - iPMCC)
They were developed through the specific expertise of Schneider Electric in energy and industrial process automation management.
Value Proposition
  • They perfectly integrate into any site infrastructure through intelligent and communicating architectures allowing a fast and easy access to key information from anywhere around the clock (see the illustration below), for energy efficiency of assets and maximised production time, up to 15% increase in productivity.


Key benefits
  • The MotorSys™ iPMCC solutions help the workshop teams optimise the energy efficiency of assets, offering the following benefits:
    - High reliability and increased dependability of the installation, even in severe industrial environments:
       up to 70% reduction in untimely shutdowns
    - Energy management for efficient consumption and usage:
       up to 30% electrical energy consumption reduction and costs allocation
    - Safety of personnel and assets, maintainability and uprgradability:
       up to 90% fewer motor burns-out
    - Lead time management and cost reduction throughout the installation's entire lifecycle:
       up to 50% reduction in maintenance costs
Main Characteristics
Main drivers
  • Electrical energy represents a major proportion of industrial site production costs.
    For example, the share of total electrical energy consumed by motors within the infrastructure and industrial sectors represents up to 70%.

 
Energy efficiency value proposition
  • MotorSys™ iPMCC solutions have an immediate and measurable impact on the electrical energy consumption.
  • They can integrate devices to define and track the load profile of the motors, and consequently, to adapt to the production requirements, helping to optimise energy usage and consumption:
    - Motor protection relays to control, manage and monitor voltage, current, power, energy, ... , and pinpoint any deviation
    - Variable speed drives and softstarters to reduce load peaks by 50% or more
    - Capacitors to manage reactive power factor correction and thermal withstand, ensuring 
       > elimination of reactive power-related costs
       > reduction of subscribed demand while increasing energy availability
       > improvement of power quality 
       > increase of the service life of devices connected to the supply network
  • MotorSys™ iPMCC solutions help improving any energy efficiency plan performances.

 Energy efficiency key benefits
  • Overall data availability regarding motor application's energy consumption enables cost allocation at different levels:
    - each of the individual motor starters
    - entire switchboard
    - entire workshop
  • Globally speaking, MotorSys™ iPMCC solutions allow: the conversion of the energy costs related to production from based costs to variable costs,  and the reduction of electrical energy consumption up to 30%.
Differentiation Factors
  • Pre-tested and pre-validated architectures.
  • Openness to all communication protocols used in process industry and infrastructures: Ethernet TCP/IP, Profibus-DP, DeviceNet, Modbus-RTU, CANopen.
  • No single point of failure (NSPOF) in Ethernet.
  • Complete integration in PlantStruxure™.
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