The drive

that optimizes your energy efficiency

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Completely leverage the energy efficiency potential in

your production environment with our comprehensive

portfolio. This addresses complete product development

and production: from the product design through produc-

tion planning and engineering up to actual production

and services. With SINAMICS, we can offer you a seamless

and integrated range of energy efficient drive solutions to

sustainably secure higher energy efficiency, productivity

and competitiveness.

Electric drives use about two thirds of all industrial electric power. This is why it is decisive that drive technology

is used from the word go so that already in the engineering phase, future energy consumption can be effectively

reduced – thus optimizing plant/system availability and process reliability.

UP TO

ENERGY SAVINGS

60%

Energy transparency in all engineering phases

Already in the engineering phase, the SIZER engineering

software provides you with information about your specific

energy demand. It visualizes the energy consumption in

the complete drive train, and compares this with different

system concepts.

High energy-saving potential through variable-speed

operation

Controlling the motor speed as a function of the demand

using SINAMICS leverages enormous energy-saving poten-

tial, especially when it comes to pumps, fans and compres-

sors. Here, energy savings of up to 60% are possible, in

individual cases even up to 70%. This is because the power

drawn in partial load operation is always adapted to the

actual demand.

SINAMICS in combination with SIMOTICS

The seamless and integrated engineering goes far beyond

just SINAMICS – up to a higher-level automation system

and a wide range of energy-efficient SIMOTICS low-voltage

motors with a wide spectrum of power and performance

classes. When compared to conventional motors, these

have an efficiency that is up to 10% higher.

Determining cost-saving potential with SinaSave

Using SinaSave, the energy-saving potential when using

SINAMICS converters can be estimated. To do this, the web-

based tool takes into account all of the relevant variables,

such as the power and load data of the application, control

mode and operating profile. In addition to the energy-

saving potential in a specific case, you can also obtain a

financial assessment as well as the expected payback time.

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Intuitively configuring the measuring components

SIMATIC Energy Suite – as integrated option

for the TIA Portal – efficiently links energy

management with the automation, making

energy usage in your production transparent.

Further, as a result of the simplified con-

figuration of the energy measuring components, e.g. the

SINAMICS G converter series, engineering costs are sig-

nificantly reduced. Based on the standard and integrated

connection to higher-level energy management systems

or cloud-based services, you can seamlessly expand the

energy data that has been acquired to create an energy

management system spanning several locations of

facilities.

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Ready for

SIMATIC

Energy Suite

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Product design

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Production planning

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Production engineering

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Production

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Service