SAF Drives Inc
New Hamburg
Ontario
N3A 4G7
Engineering: SAF is an Automation and Drives Solutions Provider that delivers turnkey solutions for new and used equipment in a myriad of industries. With a 45+ year history of providing solutions for automation and drive systems in a wide range of applications, SAF understands experience minimizes your risk. SAF’s proven track record on both new and vintage systems routinely generates significant Return On Investment (ROI).
Panel Shop: With over 20 years of experience our panel shop team delivers quality, build to print or custom industrial control panels for various applications, built and tested to UL508A and CSA C22.1.14 standards.
Products: The OPAL PRO MS6B soft starter series is a highly dependable digital soft starter suitable for motors ranging in size up to 1200 HP over the 200-600V range. This digital three phase soft starter offers all the features and functionality of the OPAL PRO MS6 series, however, comes complete with a heavy duty, AC3 rated bypass contactor. Like the MS6 series, the MS6B series offers trouble free use with dual modes for current limit and step and ramp current operations. Programmable overload allows flexibility of class 10, 15, 20 and 30 motor overload protection.
SAF has tremendous knowledge of DC drives and superior application experience to handle all your needs. These capabilities permit us to design the most complicated DC drive systems whether it is a single drive or a multi-drive coordinated arrangement. Our team has experience with systems ranging from small horsepower to 1000’s of hp, multi-pulse low harmonic systems, series motor control and MG set field supply upgrades or replacements. SAF’s first generation drives, DC6 and DC12, are still running and supported with replacement parts readily available. That same philosophy has been adapted to all of SAF’s products including the next generation DD306 and DD312. This DC drive suite offers one of the industries longest supported drive products on the market.
SAFphire is a Programmable Linear Controller designed specifically for closed-loop coordinated drive control applications. SAFphire controllers offer single digit millisecond scan times to allow for high performance dynamic responses. With two built in ethernet ports and a variety of analog and digital IO cards, the SAFphire has the ability to integrate into a system with a variety of other devices and also has the ability to interface to both AC and DC drives from a number of different manufacturers. The ethernet ports allow the SAFphire to also interface to most of the well-known PLC and HMI’s on the market today.