Modernizing or retrofitting an aging machine with the latest drive technology can quickly improve its productivity, reduce soaring maintenance cost and form an essential part in guaranteed extension of their product lifecycle. You can rely on Siemens Customer Service to be your perfect partner in providing the level of retrofit assistance required for all stages of your modernization project.

For years, SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES have been the legacy Siemens converters chosen for your motion and vector control needs providing low engineering cost, high reliability, flexibility and performance. With the emergence of new technology, as of October 2020, the SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES product line has matured and reached the end of its life. The SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES was replaced by the SINAMICS Line of Drives.

The chart below shows the lifecycle of the MASTERDRIVE Series. As of current year-to-date, the product will no longer be guaranteed or receive support directly from Siemens anymore.

However, fret not as collaborating with Siemens Customer Service will offer you the Retrofit and Modernization Services required to allow you to upgrade, save money and maximize your overall capital budget. Leverage on our drive specialists who have all the SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES insights and know-how across various industries and applications to ensure a smooth and cost-effective transition to the new SINAMICS drives.

Whether it is legacy Siemens or non-Siemens drives, Siemens Customer Service has vast experience and has successfully assisted many of our customers globally to smoothly integrate the latest drive, motor and controller technologies as part of our holistic retrofit solutions for the market.

The necessity for obsolete drive to be retrofitted or upgraded

As the drives age, failure rates and maintenance costs rise. Spare part availability continues to decrease, resulting in extended unplanned downtime and increasing maintenance costs. Without sufficient inventory of spares on hand, interventions to fix and quickly get the machine up and running again would be a great challenge.

Keeping the legacy SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES for the long run will limit the efforts to increase energy efficiency. It is also a roadblock to the potentials of digital transformation.

Continuous usage of SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVES that has served your plant for more than 10-15 years will lead to increase in maintenance cost and ultimately, this will also risk the safety of the maintenance user.

Below will be some experiences shared by our frontline field service team throughout the years of serving our loyal MASTERDRIVES users.

Scenario 1: MASTERDRIVES parts, including accessories, were made unavailable; hence, front cover of the drive was loose and users faced risk of exposure with live contact parts.

Scenario 2: Flashover occurrence due to aging MASTERDRIVES for more than 20 years with no proper maintenance. Control Firing Card was found to have burnt marks upon inspection by our service team.

Unlock digital transformation potential with SINAMICS retrofit as the first step

With the latest SINAMICS technology integrated into your drive train, your application is ready for the future. Unlock the potential of digitalization using innovative features that come with the world class drive SINAMICS.

After a successful retrofit, your machine is ready for the digital future as valuable data can now be sent to Siemens open cloud based IOT Operating System for analysis by our SINAMICS Drive Train Expert House remotely in Germany.

This benefit will then lead to possibilities for early intervention and enable costly problems to be spotted even before it happens, allowing you to concentrate on your day-to-day business, ready for a sustainable digital future.

Be future-proof and embrace flexibility; plan your retrofit with an organization you can trust

Keeping pace with the constant demand to modernize and improve productivity while prioritizing efforts for maintenance cost reduction is a challenge many must juggle with every day.

The ideal solution is to purchase all-new, state-of-the-art products that suit your manufacturing needs. However, the cost can be excessive with an already stretched capital budget.

Retrofitting an existing drive to the latest SINAMICS Drive gives you access to new technologies and provides an attractive alternative that will deliver maximum value for your investment.

Approach Siemens as we offer many comprehensive drives retrofit packages to help you keep pace with future demands at substantially lower cost than purchasing a new drive system. With strong competency within the Customer Service Team, rest assured we will be able to provide solution and help you to migrate your aging MASTERDRIVES to the latest active drive series of Sinamics.

Scenario 1: SIMOVERT MASTERDRIVE – SINAMICS

Act before your drives fail and avoid the financial impact of prolonged downtimes.

Contact Siemens Customer Services to request a quote today!