TMEIC Establishes Lineup of TMdrive-LY Inverters as Upgrade to Existing Multi-level Inverters

Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (hereinafter, "TMEIC"; President & CEO Masahiko Yamawaki) has established a lineup of TMdrive-LY inverters as a new series that enables the update of low-voltage draw-out style inverter units supplied around the world.

TMEIC’s low-voltage, draw-out style inverters, which commenced sales in the 1990s, enable drive control of multiple motors by way of a method for storing multiple inverter units in a single storage cabinet. More than 15,000 of these draw-out style inverters have been delivered to customers worldwide on the back of high acclaim from many customers globally. The TMdrive-LY series facilitates upgrade to inverters possessing TMEIC’s latest advances in performance simply by replacing the existing inverter unit*. In addition, the new series takes far less time to construct compared with updating an entire system. The latest maintenance tools can also be used on the new units, thereby increasing the convenience of making adjustments and handling maintenance after delivery.

TMEIC will supply the TMdrive-LY series to various industrial fields such as the steel, paper manufacture and mining industries with the aim of contributing to enhanced productivity, energy efficiency and stable customer operations.

Product Features and Customer Benefits:

• Reduced construction period: Can launch with a construction period that takes around half the time of updating the entire system *TMEIC comparison
• Minimizes system restructuring: Enables both use of existing transmission and application of the latest high-performance transmission
• Maintains operational performance equivalent to existing unit: The latest maintenance tools can be used, including TMdrive-Navigator, while the maintenance and working procedures remain unchanged

*Existing multi-level inverter units and updated LY series:

・In case of unit upgrade to LY series, performance will be equivalent to the latest TMdrive-10e2 series.