Process Reliability Comes with Cell-Based Power Drives

How critical is process reliability to your industry?

Process reliability is absolutely critical. Machines have become pretty reliable, but motor drives have not been able to keep pace. There is a general impression that semiconductors drives, although versatile, are not as rugged and reliable. There is good news, however. Cell-based power drives possess reliability and availability close to one hundred percent.

So, what is special about cell-based drives? Cell-based drive design is the latest in the power electronics market. Multiple power cells based on low voltage IGBTs are interconnected in a modular design to provide the desired output which is good enough to drive virtually any machine. Variable frequencies are available from zero to 150 KHz. A high mark is the ability to bypass a sick cell quickly without interrupting the operation or causing transients on the line. Here are some of the advantages of cell-based power drives:

It is for these reasons that cell-based power drives are now dominating the industrial power solutions.