Retrofit – replacing your drive

Retrofitting allows you to upgrade your motor/variable speed drive if it no longer meets your production requirements or if its components have become obsolete.

Retrofitting may also apply to the command-control and the whole of the regulation associated with your drive.

The retrofit part allows you to improve your means of production:

• Enhanced reliability, ensuring greater availability of the system

• Excellent flexibility thanks to numerous programming possibilities and communication interfaces

• Simplicity of installation, configuration and commissioning

• Powerful diagnostic and monitoring function

• Improved drive performance and energy efficiency

• Obtaining new sources of specialist equipment maintenance assistance
• Significant increase in your program transfer and networking possibilities
• Implementation of DIGITAL solutions with increasingly dynamic and efficient models
• Add additional features, e.g. enhanced security
• Compliance – in accordance with the recommendations made by audit bodies, but also due to our knowledge in the field, in particular EMC

Improvements can be made on some drives:

• Re-injection into the network rather than dissipated in Joules
• Energy efficiency and energy consumption
• Integration of safety functions (stop, torque, braking and operating speed)
• Monitoring of the motor and the variable speed drive (vibration, temperature, bus voltage, etc.)
• Reduced maintenance costs

Why discuss retrofitting with DV GROUP?

We are actively working to continuously increase our knowledge and experience in respect of retrofitting.

We have skills and experience in a wide range of areas and are proficient in all aspects relating to drives – variable speed drive (power electronics), motor (electro-mechanics), its integration (engineering) and maintenance.

What support does DV GROUP offer?

• Preliminary study and sizing engineering
• Construction of cabinets and on-site integration

• Programming of the command-control regulation including its man-machine interface

• Mechanical adaptations
• Start up, test and assistance
• Full documentation
• Training your operators

Maintenance: Drive troubleshooting

DV GROUP specializes in drive maintenance and troubleshooting. In close co-operation with the manufacturers of motors and variable speed drives, we offer efficient and rapid diagnostics.

With a large stock of spare parts Nidec, Siemens, as well as other brands, we reduce machine downtime to a minimum. We put your means of production back into operation and repair the defective part (screen, power supply card and power board, regulation board, etc.).

Delivery of replacement parts within 24/48 hours if available from our suppliers

Our highly efficient network of suppliers means that we are able to ensure next-day delivery of spare parts to your premises to replace any defective items.

With versatile technicians specialised in specific areas, DV GROUP provides troubleshooting services on the electrical, electronic and motor parts of your drive machine 24/7 and 365 days a year.

Preventive maintenance of the drive

If you wish, we can carry out preventive maintenance on your drives periodically or on an ad hoc basis. This guarantees maximum uptime for your means of production.

DV GROUP carries out the maintenance as recommended by the different manufacturers (dusting, battery, power block, capacitors, measurement sensor, and fan replacements, etc.) and analyses and updates any new firmware versions as required.

We are at your disposal to advise you and help you implement your various machine reconstruction projects, either to increase productivity or improve workstations, or to recondition a machine if possible.