Motors play a very important role in running of processes. A starter provides a means of safely starting and stopping of the motors and protection from short circuit and overload. In conventional starters this protection is provided by means of a fuse and an overload relay respectively. Being mechanical devices, they have known limitations compared to the accuracy and reliability provided by electronic relays. Protection is provided to a motor primarily to prevent the loss of production, higher maintenance costs and unsafe conditions in a process, rather than saving the motor itself, which is inexpensive.

About 50% of motor tripping’s can be prevented by monitoring power and loading. Other failures can be prevented by having an effective asset management system. It is, therefore, necessary to have an “intelligent” protection system which can monitor the power supply and loading, identify the potential risks and send warnings and alarms to the maintenance staff. The system should also be able to monitor and record motor parameters and operating parameters such as the running hours and the number of starts/ stops that can help in carrying out timely preventive maintenance. The system should also have capability to transmit the real time parameter data and receive control orders through network protocols widely used in industrial automation.

IMCC, Soft Starters & VFDs can be networked on different protocols such as Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet, Modbus, CANopen etc and can be integrated with PLC or DCS . Energy Audit and Optimization is also possible by Monitoring Energy Consumption over these communication protocols.

Salient Features of our IMCC, Soft Starter & VFD Panels are:

Experience with Siemens/ ABB/ Schneider/Rockwell/ Danfoss VFD Drives & Soft Starters
In House Bus bar Cutting, Bus bar Bending, Sleeving Facility
Compliance to safety norms
Testing Facility with 3-Phase Power Supply
Up to IP 67 Protection Available
UL/CE Compliant Panels as per requirement

The power base is available in two models – up to 12A (5.5.KW) and up to 32A (15KW). Control Unit is available in three versions – Standard, Advanced and Multifunction. Communication module is available with widely used industrial protocols such as Asi, Modbus, Canopen, Profibus, Devicenet etc.

Standard control units satisfy the basic requirements of protection – short circuit and overload. Advanced control unit allows additional advanced functions such as alarm, fault differentiation. Multifunction control unit is suitable for the most sophisticated control and protection requirements.

Our Drive Panel Control Design Ensure for – Ground current fault, jam fault, current phase imbalance fault, under/ over current fault, under/ over voltage fault, under/ over power factor fault, communication loss fault

Drive Panel provides fault alarms for motor overload fault, motor over current fault, motor short circuit (to earth and phase to phase) fault, line supply under/ over voltage fault, line supply phase loss fault, motor phase loss fault, drive overheating fault, communication fault

Control Panel also provides measurements of line currents, average motor current, thermal capacity
Communication modules are available with Asi bus, Modbus, Canopen bus, Profibus, Device Net protocols.

Faults can be programmed to have manual, auto or remote reset.
Motor can be operated in local or remote mode