NORD DRIVESYSTEMS used SPS Italia 2026 in Parma to present drive technologies designed for connected, flexible, and energy-conscious production environments.
The company’s display in Hall 3, Booth F021 centred on frequency inverters for centralised and decentralised architectures. Its NORDAC PRO, NORDAC ON, NORDAC FLEX, and NORDAC LINK platforms are built to support scalable automation designs across conveyor systems, machinery, and production equipment.
As machine architectures become more distributed, drive intelligence is increasingly being positioned closer to motors and applications rather than being concentrated inside control cabinets. NORD’s inverter platforms support major industrial Ethernet protocols, integrated PLC functionality, and positioning functions, allowing machine builders to simplify control layouts while retaining application flexibility.
The company also highlighted NXD tupH surface treatment, which has been developed for drive components exposed to corrosion, aggressive cleaning chemicals, and intensive washdown regimes. Food and beverage, packaging, and pharmaceutical plants are among the target environments, where hygiene requirements and equipment reliability have to be managed together.
Energy performance formed another part of the SPS presentation. NORD promoted high-efficiency motors and its NORD ECO service, which analyses drive systems to identify potential reductions in energy consumption and total cost of ownership.
With electricity costs still under scrutiny across European manufacturing, motor and drive optimisation remains a practical route to lower operating costs without wholesale changes to production lines. In many plants, incremental improvements in drive sizing, control strategy, and motor efficiency can accumulate into meaningful reductions across large installed bases.
Condition monitoring and data analysis were addressed through NORD DRIVE MONITOR, which supports predictive maintenance strategies by giving operators greater visibility of drive behaviour. The system reflects the growing role of drive components as data sources within connected production environments, rather than purely mechanical power transmission assets.
The company combined live demonstrations with application examples and technical discussions in Parma. Its presentation placed modular drives, digital monitoring, washdown resilience, and energy performance within the same automation framework, reflecting the way production equipment is now expected to serve mechanical, electrical, and data-driven requirements at once.
More information on the company’s SPS Italia programme is available from NORD DRIVESYSTEMS.
