Series Overview
Why is the SIMOCODE pro Intelligent Motor Management System Needed?
Whether in papermaking, water, chemical, mining, color, oil and gas, power plants, sewage treatment, or subway infrastructure construction industries, what customers care most about is: how to minimize equipment downtime and maximize plant availability? Siemens' answer: The SIMOCODE pro intelligent motor management system. On one hand, the SIMOCODE pro has the following features to ensure continuous plant production:
- Supports PROFIBUS DP, Modbus RTU, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, or OPC UA communication.
- Avoids equipment malfunctions, minimizing equipment downtime and reducing losses to the lowest level.
- Even in the event of a fault, the central control room, substation, and equipment site can easily obtain rich motor information.
On the other hand, SIMOCODE pro can optimize project investment and spare parts costs:
- Integrates multiple control, protection, monitoring, and diagnosis functions.
- Replaces traditional wiring, IO schemes, and related components.
- Design convenience, no need to build complex control circuits.
- Simplified construction, replacing terminal boxes and complex hard wiring and a large number of cables, shortening the cycle.
- Easy commissioning, realizing quantitative setting, commissioning, and programming through intelligent software.
- Easy maintenance, obtaining rich data, minimizing maintenance time and costs.
SIMOCODE pro is a modular motor management system mainly used for low - voltage motors or resistance loads. It optimizes the connection between the electrical circuit and the central control system, improving the availability of users while greatly reducing the cost of installation, commissioning, operation, and maintenance.
Usually, each SIMOCODE pro intelligent management system needs to be equipped with a basic unit and a separate current detection module or current/voltage detection module. The modules are connected through system - used connecting cables. They can be installed as a single unit (front - rear arrangement) or installed separately (parallel). The current detection module or current/voltage detection module corresponding to the power class of the motor is connected to the connection terminal, and the connection terminal can be connected to the operator panel in the control cabinet. The current detection module or current/voltage detection module and the operator panel are connected by connecting cables from the basic unit. By adding expansion modules, SIMOCODE pro S and pro V can add more inputs and outputs, and pro V can also realize functions such as detection of earth faults, modules, temperature, etc., and monitoring; by adding DM - F - Local and DM - F - ProfiSafe fault - safe modules, pro V can also achieve fault - safe functions. All modules are connected by connecting cables. According to different installation specifications, select corresponding connecting cables. In addition, the outer circular connecting cables are more robust and durable, used in 场合 where internal cables are easily worn, such as between the measurement module and the basic unit. The maximum distance between modules (for example, the distance between the basic unit and the current detection module) shall not exceed 2.5 meters. The total length of connecting cables in a system shall not exceed 3 meters.
Product Series
SIMOCODE pro is divided into several functional series:
- SIMOCODE pro S is a compact system, used for direct starting and reversible starting, or for motor protection.
- SIMOCODE pro C is an intelligent system, used for direct starting, reversible starting, and star - delta starting, or for motor protection or controlling soft starters. This system can be expanded through a multi - function module and expand input/output points. It can monitor and control earth faults through 3UL23 and other current sensors, and monitor motor temperature through PT100/PT1000, KTY83/KTY84, or NTC temperature sensors.
- SIMOCODE pro V is an expandable system with complete control functions, which can expand the input, output, and monitoring functions of the system through expansion modules.
Product Features and Customer Benefits
- Through PROFIBUS DP, Modbus RTU, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, or OPC UA, integrate the electrical circuit into the process control system, greatly reducing the wiring cost between each set of electrical cabinets and PLC.
- By integrating configurable control and monitoring functions in SIMOCODE pro, distributed control is realized, saving resources in the automation system. Even if the control system or bus fails, the motor can still be fully controlled and protected.
- Through fault diagnosis and prediction in the control system, the operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the system are simplified, improving the availability of the system and the friendliness of maintenance and repair.
- Highly modular design, users can flexibly configure control schemes according to the control needs of different motors.
- Using integrated control functions instead of electrical circuits, significantly reducing the number of required hardware components and wiring. Since the control function is integrated into the module, the cost of inventory management and possible wiring errors are reduced.
- Using electronic full - range motor protection, ensuring the long - term stability of the required characteristics. Even after years of operation, reliable tripping can be ensured.
- SIMOCODE pro is equipped with a new generation of high - precision current/voltage detection module, with an accuracy of up to 1.5%, expanding the current range ratio from 10 - 100A to 10 - 115A, achieving a more compact size design under higher current range conditions; measuring voltage in insulation - grounded or high - impedance systems without removing the module; flexibly setting internal ground fault current thresholds, etc.
Multi - function, Electronic Full - range Motor Protection for Motors with Rated Current 820 A and Below
SIMOCODE pro realizes the following protection functions:
- Inverse - time electronic overload protection (CLASS 5 to 40)
- PTC thermistor protection
- Phase - breaking/unbalance protection
- Motor phase failure protection
- Monitor the set motor current limit value
- Monitor voltage and power
- Monitor power ratio (motor rotation/load fault)
- Monitor earth faults
- Monitor temperature, e.g., through PT100/PT1000
- Monitor motor running time, standby time, and number of starts
Record Measurement Curves
SIMOCODE pro can record measurement curves, for example, providing current change curves during motor starting.
Realize Flexible Motor Control by Integrating Control Functions (Replacing a Large Number of Hardware Interlocks)
Many predefined electrical control functions have been integrated into SIMOCODE pro, including all necessary logical operations and interlock functions:
- Overload relay
- Direct starting and reversible starting
- Star - delta starting (also suitable for star - delta starting with forward and reverse rotation)
- Suitable for dual - winding double - speed motors, also suitable for reversible starting
- Positioner starting
- Electromagnetic starting
- Controlled soft starter starting (also suitable for soft starter starting with forward and reverse rotation)
These control functions are predefined in SIMOCODE pro and can be arbitrarily assigned to the inputs and outputs of the control device (including PROFIBUS/PROFINET process image areas).
These predefined control functions can also be freely set through logic modules (truth tables, counters, timers, rise/fall detection, etc.), and with the help of standard functions (power grid monitoring, emergency stop, external fault monitoring, etc.), they can be flexibly used for various custom states of motor control. No additional auxiliary relays are needed in the control circuit.
Using SIMOCODE pro can avoid a large number of external components and wiring in the control circuit, and achieve high - degree standardization in design and circuit aspects.
SIMOCODE pro S: Professional and Compact
The SIMOCODE pro S system is concise, and flexibility is crucial in practical applications. According to different customer needs, corresponding various functions are provided. To give full play to its advantages in process industry and digital factory applications, we provide two function - level systems: SIMOCODE pro S and SIMOCODE pro V.
SIMOCODE pro S is currently the most modern, compact motor management system in terms of size and appearance, with a width of only 22.5mm, simple and compact, the essence of motor management systems: its basic unit and function - level expansion module integrate all functions of modern monitoring and protection, including the most important basic requirements. SIMOCODE pro S includes basic functions such as overload protection, direct starting, reversible starting, and star - delta starting and other complex motor starting functions, as well as thermistor motor protection, earth fault monitoring, receiving signals from PT100/PT1000, KTY83/KTY84, NTC temperature sensors, performing temperature monitoring and other functions, all in one. SIMOCODE pro S supports PROFIBUS communication.
SIMOCODE pro V: Smart, Flexible and Versatile
Compared with SIMOCODE pro S, the functions of SIMOCODE pro V motor management system are more abundant: users can accurately configure required functions according to the specific requirements of motor control. SIMOCODE pro V is equipped with a basic unit and up to five expansion modules. In addition to all functions of SIMOCODE pro S, it can also provide a series of other special functions, such as voltage and active power measurement, fault - safe full - off function. SIMOCODE pro V can support a new generation of current/voltage detection modules. For details, please refer to the order description. In addition to supporting PROFIBUS communication functions, it supports PROFINET, Modbus RTU, EtherNet/IP communication.