Motor Management

We help you to optimize and simplify your motor management solution while maintaining the performance of your operations and processes.

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How do you approach motor management?

Electrical motor management is often associated with motor maintenance but involves much more. It concerns multiple electrical, mechanical, and maintenance challenges for end-users, designers, and equipment manufacturers. Associating extensive offer portfolio, competencies, and know-how, Schneider Electric helps you with sustainable motor integration in the electrical system and the industrial process.

Motor Management for process industries

Architectures and the essential content in one e-guide, for end-users, and partners.

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Modeling and simulation

Learn how to model MV motor starting solutions for transient analysis.

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Best practices

Recommended power system design for mid-size iron ore mines.

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Expertise to overcome challenges

Towards an efficient and optimized solution for energy distribution, protection, and control of high-power motors.

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Discover a unique conceptual design and calculation application for motor management architectures. Save time for equipment sizing while focusing on the essentials: how to start, protect, manage power quality, and monitor.

Challenges for process industries in motor management

Electric installation

Maintain system voltage at an acceptable level during start-up.
Control power factor and harmonics in normal operation.
Limit fault current contribution and impact on equipment sizing and cost.

Process and mechanics

Define an adequate torque and speed control solution for demanding applications.
Avoid premature aging by limiting the mechanical stress on start-up.

Maintenance

Adapt maintenance actions to motor application specificities.
Properly schedule maintenance operations.
Integrate preventive maintenance from the design of the electrical installation.

Our five business areas for motor management

To analyze application constraints and guarantee motor compatibility

Expertise is at the heart of our motor management solution. With dedicated software, relevant analyses, or services for electrical equipment, Schneider Electric supports your projects from design to operation and maintenance.

Subdomains:
- Software
- Expert analyses
- On-site support and services
To ensure starting feasibility and operating mode benefits

Motor starting or operations control are fundamental for your process and the definition of the motor management solution from Schneider Electric. We offer a complete range of advanced motor control equipment to meet all your process constraints with regard to your power system requirements.

Subdomains:
- Auto-transformer starters
- Reduced voltage soft starters
- Variable speed drives
To define suitable protection and integration in the industrial control system

Our motor management solution not only provides a means of starting the motor but also includes a protection unit comprising switchgear and protection relays. We offer a wide range of protection devices for protecting the motor and ensuring correct starting, while helping to ensure operator safety.

Subdomains:
- Protection relays
- Motor starters (DOL, Star-Delta)
To maximize energy efficiency

Choosing the correct capacitor bank, harmonic mitigation system, or transformer will ensure correct operation of the motor in the process with a minimum impact on the supplying power system.

Subdomains:
- Power factor correction
- Active filters
- Transformers (indoor and outdoor)
To assess motor management solutions over the time

Through condition assessment or by using historian data, motor and application failures can be avoided in the early stages. We offer an extensive range of products to help you in this approach.

Subdomains:
- Portfolio management
- Operational performance
- Motor condition assessment

Resources

Motor management offers for electric motor applications

Recommended power system design for mid-size iron ore mines

Motor management for LV and MV high-power motor applications

LNG ship motor starting analyses

Solving the LV vs. MV dilemma when optimizing costs for motor management

Motor starter modeling methods (in EMTP-ATP)

E-guide for motor management in process industries

A holistic approach to motor management optimization

Best practices for designing low-voltage switchgear to reduce size, costs, and CO2 footprint

A tool to optimize motor management: Benchmarking EcoStruxure Motor Management Design with ETAP

Avoid electrical network stress during large motor starting using simplified calculations at design stage

How to estimate electrical network stress during large motor starting in pre-design phase

Large motor starting 101: Discover the constraints

Large motor starting 102: Motor applications and their characteristics

Comparison of MV and LV solutions for mine conveyor applications

How the right motor management saves +20% OpEx in LNG ships

Solving the LV vs MV dilemma in motor management for mining

Three safety measures for motors with individual power factor correction

All motors contribute to the main busbar short-circuit, reality or dream?

Five steps for efficient motor management design

Large motor starting 103: Motor starting methods – How to choose the right one?

VFDs and soft starters: is there really a competition?

Harmonics in industry: A common issue, but not a fatality

EcoStruxure Motor Management Design

Build a conceptual design for high-power motors, including transformer sizing, short-circuit levels and starting method.

EcoStruxure Motor Control Configurator

Build your complete motor control solution for protection and control with direct starter, soft starter or variable speed drive.

Altivar Process Configurator

Shorten time for quotation using our configurator for typical drive applications. With just a few clicks you can configure your individual Drive System with predefined options.

EcoStruxure Power Design - Calculation Tools

Whether you are designing a new installation, expanding an existing one or doing maintenance, EcoStruxure Power Design - Calculation Tools is a suite of online tools for quick protection device selection, discrimination checking, and cable calculation in LV applications.

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1. What is motor management?

Electrical motor management is usually associated with the overall maintenance of the motor; however, it is not limited to that. It helps end-users, equipment manufacturers, and designers in coping with mechanical, electrical, and maintenance challenges.

Schneider Electric offers sustainable motor integration in industrial processes and electrical systems. Our motor asset management involves expert services for motor applications, advanced motor control, power quality, motor protection, and control. An efficient motor management plan can help in increasing production efficiency, reducing costs of unscheduled downtime, eliminating unnecessary inventory build-up, reducing costs related to electric motor upkeep, and more.

2. Motor management solutions by Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric motor management solutions are based on intelligent and advanced technologies, robust architecture, motor control configurator, and motor management design tools for machines, processes, and buildings.

Our architecture can be divided into two broad categories:

Digitized architecture that is performance-driven and fully connected with transparent data reporting. It helps in efficient energy management and power quality management.
Core architecture that offers performance balance, soft starter, and variable speed drive solutions.

3. What is the need for a motor management program?

Schneider Electric's motor management program enables plant maintenance and management by making cost-effective decisions whenever a motor fails. It will help you reduce downtime and energy costs, ensuring that replacement motors are readily available.

Our electric motor management program includes power feeding, motor control and protection, panel integration, system integration, and asset management. In addition, we offer simple, reliable, and tailored motor management systems that will help you meet the requirements of demanding applications such as material handling and packaging, onsite maintenance, and others. At Schneider Electric, we also provide a selectable trip class for accurate measurement in extreme temperatures, which ensures that the desired level of protection is delivered on time.