Greater efficiency with connectivity module

In future, it will be pos­si­ble for exist­ing motors oper­at­ing in the field to be retro­fit­ted with the Simotics Con­nect 400 con­nec­tiv­i­ty mod­ule from Siemens. This will allow size AH100 to AH450 low-volt­age motors oper­at­ed direct­ly from the mains to trans­mit oper­at­ing data straight to the cloud-based Sidrive IQ Fleet App with­out the need for any struc­tur­al mod­i­fi­ca­tions. Reg­u­lar data analy­sis allows plant oper­a­tors to quick­ly and effi­cient­ly over­see the oper­a­tional sta­tus of their dri­ve sys­tems and plan a ser­vic­ing sched­ule based on actu­al require­ment. This not only improves effi­cien­cy, but also opti­mizes ser­vice­abil­i­ty and extends ser­vice life. Typ­i­cal appli­ca­tions requir­ing mon­i­tored low-volt­age motors include pumps, fans and compressors.

At this year’s Han­nover Messe; Siemens will be using a brown­field appli­ca­tion to demon­strate how plant avail­abil­i­ty can be opti­mized in future using Simotics Con­nect 400. The con­nec­tiv­i­ty mod­ule comes with all the sen­sors required for cap­tur­ing motor vibra­tion or tem­per­a­ture-relat­ed data, a Wlan com­mu­ni­ca­tion mod­ule and a bat­tery to enable inde­pen­dent oper­a­tion. The mod­ule process­es and saves the oper­at­ing data, and sends it to the Sidrive IQ Fleet App for cloud-based analy­sis. Spe­cial algo­rithms use the data to gen­er­ate mean­ing­ful key per­for­mance indi­ca­tors (KPIs) which describe the sta­tus of the motors, and are used to deter­mine any con­crete need for action. If required, the mod­ules can be retro­fit­ted to lega­cy motors to improve reli­a­bil­i­ty and avail­abil­i­ty and boost performance.

Sidrive IQ: IoT digitalization portfolio for drive systems

Sidrive IQ is an essen­tial com­po­nent of the Siemens dig­i­tal­iza­tion port­fo­lio which opens up wide-rang­ing scope for IoT (Inter­net of Things) opti­miza­tion across the entire dri­ve train – from pro­duc­tion through to ser­vic­ing. Sidrive IQ Mind­Sphere offers a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions and cus­tomized ser­vices. Sidrive IQ Fleet is used pre­dom­i­nant­ly in process indus­try appli­ca­tions, and Ana­lyze MyDrives is designed in the main for the dis­crete man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try. Both appli­ca­tions enable the visu­al­iza­tion, analy­sis and mon­i­tor­ing of dri­ve data.

The Sidrive IQ appli­ca­tion Ana­lyze MyDrives addi­tion­al­ly allows the oper­at­ing sta­tus of Sinam­ics low-volt­age con­vert­ers to be reli­ably and con­ve­nient­ly mon­i­tored, while gath­er­ing and ana­lyz­ing their oper­at­ing data. By con­tin­u­ous­ly mon­i­tor­ing pow­er con­sump­tion, torque and fre­quen­cy and also mea­sur­ing ener­gy flows, users can iden­ti­fy any opti­miza­tion and main­te­nance require­ment and so ini­ti­ate any nec­es­sary actions in good time. This reduces the need for fixed-inter­val main­te­nance, mak­ing for greater machine pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and allow­ing ener­gy sav­ing poten­tial to be identified.

As a result, plant oper­a­tors ben­e­fit from improved plant avail­abil­i­ty. A range of con­nec­tiv­i­ty mod­ules for low-volt­age and medi­um-volt­age con­vert­ers as well as low-volt­age and high-volt­age motors are avail­able from Siemens for link­ing dri­ve sys­tems to the cloud.

Siemens at the Han­nover Messe 2019: Hall 9, Stand D35