RS, a trading brand of RS Group plc offers a wide range of Schneider Electric motor control solutions engineered to help organizations in every sector of the industrial market overcome common challenges and improve their productivity, efficiency, profitability, and sustainability. Smart motor control solutions help industrial organizations improve productivity, profitability, and sustainability. Labor shortages, unplanned downtime, and rising energy costs are affecting profit margins throughout the industrial market.

The U.S. has been suffering from labor shortages related to both skills gaps and Millennial and Gen-Z preferences for more efficient, connected workplaces and is expected to have 2.1 million unfilled manufacturing jobs by 2030, which will negatively affect productivity and profitability. Rising energy costs are also eating into profit margins, and industrial operations are facing increased pressure from both consumers and governments to improve the sustainability of their products and processes. These challenges are as wide-ranging as they are pervasive, but smart motor control solutions, including intelligent load management systems, variable frequency drives (VFDs), and high-performance PLCs, can effectively minimize the impact of all of them.

Schneider Electric is a leading global supplier of smart motor control solutions designed to empower users to optimize their productivity, efficiency, and sustainability, and it offers many of these advantageous Industry 4.0 products, including the TeSys island digital multifunctional load management system, Altivar VFDs, and Modicon PLCs, through RS. Schneider Electric's TeSys island smart motor starter is a modular and multifunctional smart motor control solution that provides users with near-real-time visibility into, data-driven insights about, and direct control over the switching, protection, and management of low-voltage loads in motor-driven systems deployed in an extensive array of industrial markets and applications. The feature-rich TeSys island load management system empowers users to remotely monitor and control motors and other loads through a secure digital platform, which can help reduce the impact of labor shortages and minimize on-site staff deployments.

The condition monitoring data it collects also enables users to employ predictive maintenance strategies that can help prevent unplanned downtime and even unnecessary planned downtime, troubleshoot issues quickly and accurately, and improve uptime, efficiency, and equipment lifespans. Another way that TeSys island helps reduce the impact of labor shortage and costs is through ease of use. Its simple, modular, click-together device design eliminates control wiring and mechanical adjustments, minimizes breakage points, and enables quick, easy, and cost-effective installation.

Its intuitive and user-friendly software allows users to select and modify prebuilt digital functions instead of writing code line-by-line, which makes configuration and programming a breeze. And its compatibility with third-party PLC and automation platforms, including Schneider's powerful EcoStruxure platform, Rockwell Studio 5000, and the Siemens TIA portal, simplifies and speeds integration and commissioning as well. Schneider's TeSys island consists of a set of devices -- including couplers, analog and digital modules, voltage and power interface modules, standard starters and SIL starters -- installed on a single DIN rail and connected with a ribbon cable and is seen as a single node on the network.

TeSys island manages motors and other electrical loads up to 80A (AC1) or 40hp, 480V, and 65A (AC3) and supports up to 20 modules connected to one bus coupler under a single 24V supply.