OPAL (R)

Your Advantages

Cost-Optimized Design Of Electrical Drives

The software package OPAL will assist you with the evaluation of the optimal "total cost of ownership" solution for new and retrofit projects. Make your offers quicker, safer and cheaper.

Minimized Initial Costs

user interface designed according to latest concepts, a calculation model on a broad technical basis and a comprehensive motor database reduce engineering efforts to a minimum. Fexible graphical and reporting functions simplify the comparison of alternative designs.

Minimized Operating Costs

The included efficiency calculation based on the costs of investment, energy and maintenance allows a targeted choice with the lowest operating costs, calculated for the entire life span. This knowledge will provide you with a strong selling argument.

Quick Design

Increase your competitiveness by significantly shortening the run time when designing constant and variable speed drives. The easy input and variation of process specification data allows you the examination of different aspects of the drive system in a very short time.

Elaborated Technology

Once fed with the respective specification data, the calculation model will consult a database of currently more than 1800 motors coming from leading manufacturers and select the appropriate ones. Key data such as energy consumption, total energy dissipation and maximum temperature allow the evaluation of the motor best suited for your purposes, according to a broad selection of criteria.

Reliability

The calculating model makes sure that the chosen drive will be perfectly operative even under the most difficult conditions envisaged. Temperature calculation allows the targeted inclusion of reserves to improve long-term behaviour.

Opal was developed in close collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and some well-known Swiss companies. The development was financially supported by the Swiss Federal Office for Energy