ABB ACS380-040C-032A-4+K469 Machinery Drive - PROFIsafe
Part Number: 3ABD00046249
Quick Summary
ACS380 machinery drive from ABB provides precise motor control for packaging lines, conveyors, mixers, and textile machinery. Engineers often wrestle with safely integrating drives into machine safety systems and achieving reliable stops during emergencies. CE conformity and PROFIsafe over PROFINET enable safer operation, and the architecture supports flexible safety configurations within established risk assessments. With compact hardware and adaptive programming, the drive reduces panel footprint and wiring complexity while speeding commissioning. The 15 kW, 32 A variant keeps energy use predictable and helps meet productivity targets, and its open software platform lets you tailor behavior to your exact process. In practice, this translates to higher uptime, lower lifecycle costs, and faster time-to-market for new equipment.
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3ABD00046249 ABB: The ACS380 machinery drive comes in several variants, ensuring seamless integration into machines and connecting perfectly to automation systems. It=E2=80=99s a great fit for industries such as food and beverage, material handling and textile. Typical applications include mixers, conveyors, EOT and tower cranes, extruders, and textile machinery. With the integrated functional safety features, the ACS380 drive can be also part of the machine=E2=80=99s safety system via PROFIsafe over PROFINET, ensuring the motor is safely stopped when required. In addition, the drive=E2=80=99s software can be easily customized with adaptive programming to match any specific application requirements.
Feature → Business Impact → Application: The ACS380-040C-032A-4+K469 delivers integrated safety capabilities via PROFIsafe over PROFINET, enabling safer machine operation and simpler safety-system integration across packaging lines and conveyors; this reduces risk and speeds up commissioning. Feature → Business Impact → Application: 15 kW, 32 A low-voltage drive variant minimizes panel space and wiring, enabling compact installations on mixers, extruders, and textile machinery while lowering hardware costs. Feature → Business Impact → Application: Adaptive programming support lets engineers tune torque, speed, and ramps to match exact processes, improving throughput and reducing waste on material handling or textile processes. Feature → Business Impact → Application: Built-in compatibility with automation ecosystems supports seamless PROFINET networks, easing integration with existing controls on EOT cranes, conveyors, and packaging lines. Feature → Business Impact → Application: Robust safety and control features translate to higher uptime and lower maintenance costs, delivering quick ROI in industrial automation environments such as food & beverage lines and textile plants.
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The ACS380-040C-032A-4+K469 supports PROFIsafe over PROFINET, enabling safe communication between the drive and the PLC for safe-stop and other protective functions. This compatibility simplifies integration into existing automation architectures, reduces risk during commissioning, and helps ensure compliant machine safety in conveyors, mixers, and textile equipment. In practice, you gain a cohesive safety backbone without adding separate safety controllers.
Key specs include a 15 kW power rating and a 32 A current rating, making it suitable for low-voltage (LV) drive applications. The module is designed for integration into machine control systems and supports adaptive programming to tailor speed and torque curves to your process. These specs help achieve predictable motor performance, energy efficiency, and reliable operation in industrial lines.
Typical applications include packaging lines, conveyors, mixers, extruders, textile machinery, and even EOT or tower cranes where precise speed control and safe operation are critical. The drive’s versatile software and safety features allow it to fit diverse industrial environments, enabling quicker adaptation to changing production needs and minimizing rework during line upgrades.
The ACS380-040C-032A-4+K469 is CE-conformant and integrates PROFIsafe safety features for enhanced machine safety. While its safety performance depends on the overall system and risk assessment, the drive is designed to support compliant configurations within European regulatory frameworks, contributing to safer, investigator-friendly maintenance and audits on the shop floor.
The drive reduces panel size and wiring complexity, leading to lower installation costs and faster commissioning. Its adaptive programming minimizes process delays and waste, while PROFIsafe over PROFINET reduces risk of unsafe operation. Over time, the combination of safer operation, reduced downtime, and energy efficiency delivers a favorable return on investment for automation projects in manufacturing and material handling.