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SIMOTION system components
Drives
SINAMICS drive family
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Overview
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Energy efficiency
In conventional drive systems, the energy produced during
braking is converted to heat using braking resistors. The
regenerative versions of the SINAMICS G drives efficiently feed
the energy produced during braking back into the supply
system and therefore do not need any braking resistors – energy
that can be re-used elsewhere in the plant. Furthermore, this
reduced power loss simplifies the cooling of the system,
enabling a more compact design. The multi-axis drive system
SINAMICS S solves this task even more elegantly by distributing
the energy produced during the braking of an axis to motor axes
within the drive line-up. Thus, only excess energy has to be
recovered and fed back into the supply system.
Together with the energy-efficient SIMOTICS motors, SINAMICS
drives contribute to reducing operating costs – and protecting
the environment.
Platform concept
All SINAMICS variants are based on a platform concept. Joint
hardware and software components, as well as standardized
tools for dimensioning, configuration, and commissioning tasks
ensure high-level integration across all components. SINAMICS
handles a wide variety of drive tasks with no system gaps. The
different SINAMICS variants can be easily combined with each
other.
SINAMICS
Low voltage
Direct voltage
Medium voltage
General Performance
High Performance
DC applications
Applications with high
outputs
SINAMICS
family
SINAMICS S110
SINAMICS S120 /
S120M
SINAMICS S150
SINAMICS DCM
SINAMICS GH180 /
GM150 / SM150
0.55 ... 132 kW
0.25 … 5700 kW
75 ... 1200 kW
6 kW … 30 MW
0.15 ... 85 MW
Power range
Single-axis positioning
applications for machine
and plant engineering
Production machines
(packaging, textile,
printing, paper, plastic),
machine tools, plants,
process lines and rolling
mills, ships and test bays
Test bays, cross cutters,
centrifuges
Rolling mill drives,
wire-drawing machines,
extruders and kneaders,
cableways and lifts, test
bay drives
Pumps, fans,
compressors, mixers,
extruders, mills,
crushers, rolling mills,
conveyor technology,
excavators, test bays,
marine drives, blast
furnace fans, retrofit
Application
examples
D 31
D 21.3, D 21.4
D 21.3
D 23.1, D 23.2
D 15.1, D 12
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