Data-driven Maintenance Planning for Variable Speed Drives

ABB has developed a condition-based maintenance approach for variable speed drives. Operating in the cloud, the data-driven methodology can identify the risk of potential component failures one to two years ahead. By Stefano Legnani, Global Service Product Manager, ABB. Over a number of years, discussions with users of variable speed drives (VSDs) in critical applications in the oil and gas, metals, water and wastewater, and pulp and paper industries, had revealed that they wanted an…