Variable Speed Drives and Soft Starters

Discover a wide range of variable speed drives and soft starters offering a powerful and reliable combination for your motor control solutions up to 20 MW. Starting from compact products to custom-engineered solutions, they are developed to the highest quality level to meet your needs in various applications, such as industrial processes, machines or buildings.

Drives and motor control software

Low Voltage AC Process Drives

Is your drive IIoT-ready? Altivar Process is. The Altivar Process is the next generation of variable speed drives, designed to deliver IIoT benefits for segments like Water & Wastewater, Mining & Metal, Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, Marine or Hoisting. A smart, connected device with built-in intelligence to gather data and share information to the enterprise level. Altivar Process drives can improve your operational efficiency, profitability and reduce the total cost of ownership.

Low Voltage AC Machine Drives

Need a drive for your Smart Machine? Altivar Machine variable speed drives are designed to be compatible with the wide range of machines and their applications such as hoisting and cranes, pumps, fans, conveyors, textile, material handling/working, mixers, packaging and compressors.

Altivar 12

Variable Speed Drives for commercial equipment from 0.18 to 4 kW Part of Altivar Altivar Machine ATV12 Variable Speed Drive is designed for commercial equipment and small machines with 3-phase 240V for asynchronous motors which require EMC standards up to C1 in residential areas. With dedicated functions and 3 macros applications (Start/Stop, PID, Speed) for simple environments. Embedded with PID, PID feedback supervision, PID Predictive speed, simply Jog functions, Catch on Fly and 8 preset speeds.

Altivar Machine ATV320

Smart variable speed drive from 0.18 to 22kW (0.25 to 30Hp) Part of Altivar Altivar Machine ATV320, a variable speed drive designed for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that meets simple and advanced application requirements for 3-phase synchronous and asynchronous motors. The IP21/65/66/UL type offers 4X the protection, embedded safety functions (STO,SS1,SLS,SMS,GDL) and Integrated PLC (Altivar Logic) gives the user the best performance for the investment.

Altivar Machine ATV340

IoT-ready variable speed drives for safety and heavy duty applications from 0.75 to 75kW (1 to 100Hp) Part of Altivar Altivar Machine ATV340 is a Variable Speed Drive designed for OEMs with open loop and close loop control. It supports all motors (IE2,IE3,IE4 synchronous and asynchronous, reluctance) with the heavy duty feature generating 173 Amps continuously in any environment. The integration with Modbus, Ethernet and SERCOS protocols allows remote monitoring availability through Smart Manufacturing, safety options (SS1,SLS,SMS,GDL,SBC) can proactively provide human and industrial process protections.

Low Voltage AC Building Drives

Discover reliable, compact, connected, high-efficiency Altivar Building variable speed drives, designed specifically for HVAC applications in buildings, like pumps (circulation pumps, pressure booster pumps), fans (air handling units, supply and exhaust fans, condenser fans), compressors (chillers, air conditioners, heat pumps) and more.

Soft Starters

Altivar Soft Starters provide a slow ramp-up of the motor to help decrease mechanical shock and electrical peak demand. Altivar Soft Starter is the best in class, feature-rich, easy-to-use, compact and robust Soft Starter with functionalities including torque control, communication for automation and monitoring systems. Altivar Soft Starters range from 3 A (0.37 kW) to 1200 A (900 kW) and can be used widely for any commercial and industrial application.

Altivar Soft Starter ATS480

Soft starters for Process and Infrastructures from 4 to 900 kW Part of Altivar The Altivar™ Soft Starter ATS480 is the next evolution of soft starters for digitization optimized to meet cybersecurity standard. Designed to address process and infrastructures, ATS480 simplifies project execution and maximizes the availability of your applications, even in the most demanding environments. ATS480 builds on the proven robustness and start/stop performance extending the lifetime of the ATS48 equipment and preserving your initial investment by reusing current design.

Medium Voltage AC Process Drive

Do you need a medium voltage drive which is IIoT-ready? Our Altivar Process Medium Voltage AC Process Drive is the next generation of variable speed drives, designed to deliver IIoT benefits like improved operational efficiency, profitability and energy management. Designed for segments like Mining & Minerals, Oil & Gas, Water & Wastewater and Power generation this smart-connected device with built-in intelligence to gather data and share information to the enterprise level.

Altivar Process ATV6000

Variable Speed Drives for medium voltage applications Part of Altivar Altivar Process ATV6000 'smart connected' drive completes the Altivar Process range with a solution to address your medium voltage operation requirements. ATV6000 offers complete coverage of voltage ranges from 2.3KV up to 13.8KV and up to 20MW. Typically used in high power applications in Mining & Minerals, Oil & Gas, Water & Wastewater and Power Generation, ATV6000 manages applications like pump, fans, compressors, crushers, conveyors and mills.

Legacy AC Drives

Discover legacy drives from Schneider Electric, which have been meeting our customer’s specific industry needs for many years. These products have been replaced by our latest generation range of drives but we continue to deliver lifecycle management, services and spare parts for our legacy drives to optimize our customer’s operational expenses and extend the life of their installed base.