Smart Drives Know How to Protect Their Motors: Motion systems get a predictive maintenance boost from intelligent drive electronics

摘要

Intelligent servo drives and variable frequency drives (VFDs) can diagnose machine problems and perform predictive maintenance before failure occurs or production quality slips. Such innate intelligence supports high levels of machine reliability, availability, throughput, and precision. This makes it possible for a packaging machine, for example, to protect itself from expensive breakdowns through quick reflexes, in the form of error diagnostics and reactions handled in the drive.