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What are the financial and operational benefits of intelligent motor control centers?

Research also shows there is increasing pressure on industrial facilities to reduce costs, improve productivity, quality and safety (source: IndustryARC). Intelligent motor control centers (MCCs) are helping bridge the gap from where you are to where you want to be, by delivering data-driven insights that impact operations across industrial applications including petrochemical, mining and metals, power generation, pulp and paper, water, food and beverage and more.

Put simply, motor control centers provide monitoring and control for the operation of a collection of electrical loads. When integrated with communications and smart devices, this equipment becomes intelligent, and the performance of a plant’s fleet of motors can be mined for productivity-enhancing intelligence. With these added capabilities, motor control centers provide a direct path to the data needed to make more informed operating decisions, that optimize process and power system performance.

There are also financial benefits, as motor control centers infused with intelligence can detect problems and deliver essential diagnostics that increase profitability by solving previously labor-intensive system uptime and safety challenges. This technology is delivering a powerful impact to operations and the bottom line by:

  • Delivering data directly to who needs it, when it’s needed and where it can be accessed
  • Scalable solutions across new and existing applications
  • Automating alarming and early detection systems
  • Enabling more efficient maintenance
  • Limiting interaction with live equipment to enhance safety
  • Driving continuous improvements to impact productivity
Our world is increasingly connected. By 2025, analysts predict 55.9 billion devices will be generating 79.4 zettabytes of data (source: IDC). For industrials, all that data is good news. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) creates newfound intelligence that directly impacts operations and safety—yielding new efficiencies through never-before-possible insights.

By 2025, analysts predict 55.9 billion devices will be generating 79.4 zettabytes of data.