General purpose drives

All-compatible drives set the benchmark for simplifying work and control across any industry with essential built-in features, making them easy to buy, install, and operate.

Versatility with an easy-to-use and robust solution

General purpose drives provide a comprehensive solution for controlling a wide range of applications across various industries, delivering leading performance, efficiency, simplicity, and robustness. Engineered with built-in features and components, these drives simplify the processes of selection, installation, configuration, and use, saving considerable time. 

 

With user-friendly interfaces and intuitive control panels, the setup and commissioning are quick and hassle-free. Suitable for diverse applications such as pumps, fans, conveyors, compressors, and mixers, these drives ensure versatility and adaptability to meet different industrial needs.

Key benefits

ABB’s all-compatible drives portfolio, simplify selection, installation, and configuration with their built-in application control logics and user-friendly interfaces, while offering long-term solutions and comprehensive support for various industrial needs.

Energy savings

Advanced energy-saving features, such as energy optimizer functions and built-in counters, help reduce energy consumption and operational costs.

User-friendly interface

Easy-to-use control panels with multiple language options and a straightforward settings menu reduce maintenance time and enhance user experience.

Digital offering

A wide range of digital tools to ease and enhance the use of ABB drives through the entire drive life cycle.

Precise control

Accurate speed and torque control enhance production uptime and process quality, ensuring consistent performance even with variable loads.

Safety features

Integrated Safe Torque Off (SIL 3) and ATEX-certified thermistor protection modules ensure the highest levels of machine and personnel safety in potentially hazardous environments.

Durable design

Robust construction and high-quality materials minimize downtime, reduce maintenance costs, and extend the lifespan of equipment in demanding industrial settings.

Versatile applications

Suitable for a broad range of industries, including food and beverage, textiles, automotive, and material handling, making these drives adaptable to various operational needs.

Flexible integration

Supports common fieldbus networks and features a wide range of I/O options, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and easy PLC connectivity.

Comprehensive support

Part of ABB’s all-compatible drives portfolio, these drives offer technically compatible long-term solutions and comprehensive support for users, processes, businesses, and the environment.

Typical industries

Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Water handling, Industrial pumping, Material handling, Printing, Textile, Sawmill, Automotive, Rubber and plastics

Expertise and technology

Energy efficiency

Nearly 70 percent of all electrical energy in industry is used to power motors. They enable applications to run in an industry process, such as pumps moving liquids, or fans moving air. Lowering CO₂ emissions and increasing energy efficiency is critical for our planet, but also for ensuring stable and productive industry operations.

Digital offering

Our award-winning digital solutions enable partners and end-users to become better in their business. Simple as that.

Reliability

ABB has a comprehensive range of reliable, energy efficient low voltage and medium voltage drives, along with energy efficient motors and generators, all complemented by services. Backed by years of rigorous testing, ABB drives and industry-leading expertise ensure peak performance and minimized maintenance costs—delivering reliability you can trust.

Functional safety

ABB offers various safety devices and tools for designing safer machines and processes that utilize drives. Our drive-based functional safety offering includes drives that come with integrated safety features and extended safety functionality all in one package. Safe connection between drive and PLC can be established using PROFIsafe or CIP safety protocols. This is enabled using optional safety functions modules.

Ecodesign directive

There is rapidly growing demand worldwide for more efficient products to cut energy consumption, reduce emissions and help to build a more sustainable future. The Ecodesign regulation (EU) 2019/1781 is an effective way to improve the environmental performance of products by setting minimum energy efficiency requirements for low voltage induction motors and variable speed drives.

All-compatible drives portfolio

There are many things to evaluate when investing in a variable speed drive or other piece automation. At the end you should be able to make a well-informed decision considering both the short-term investment and the long-term cost of ownership.

Harmonics

Harmonics pollute the electrical network and make equipment connected to it behave erratically. Harmonics can cause damage to sensitive electronics, interference in communication equipment, and false readings on measurement devices. Harmonics can trip circuit breakers, blow fuses and cause capacitor failures.

Discover your drive solution

  1. Select your industry & choose your application

    Discover how ABB Motors and Drives seamlessly integrate into your industry and application, boosting energy efficiency along the way.

  2. Find the right motor & drive

    Utilizing our Drive & Motor selector, we can assist you in discovering the ideal solution tailored to your needs, guided by your specific specifications. Simply choose your country, industry, application, and power level.

  3. Ease of use with ABB Digital Tools & connectivity

    Enhance the core functionality and data transfer capabilities of the drives by incorporating fieldbus adapters, safety function modules, human-machine interfaces, and peripheral options.

  4. Contact us or find a partner

    Our global network of salespeople and channel partners is dedicated to supporting you with your application wherever you are in the world.

  5. Our expertise at your service

    ABB Motion Services helps you maximize uptime, extend product lifetime, enhance performance and boost energy efficiency of your motors, generators and drives.