In industrial facilities, when motors don’t start, stop, or run correctly, production feels it.
When a motor fails, entire production lines can grind to a halt, sometimes for weeks. In heavy industrial environments like steel, paper, and large-scale manufacturing, that kind of downtime can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
For plant managers and electrical engineers, motor control is about more than function alone; it’s about reliability, maintainability, and long-term ownership costs.
Whether supporting a new installation or responding to an unexpected failure, maintenance teams need solutions that are reliable, available, and easy to integrate into existing systems.
Benshaw Applied Motor Controls is a respected manufacturer of rugged, reliable motor controls and drives. Their motor starters, drives, and engineered power control systems are ideal in demanding, mission-critical applications where uptime and reliability matter.
MCE has recently expanded its relationship with Benshaw to better serve these high-demand markets with speed, availability, and technical support.
MCE now offers a line of soft starters and drives that protect motors, reduce stress, and extend equipment life. These products work with almost any motor and can be added without major changes to your system.
MCE offers the Benshaw lineup to customers across the U.S., anywhere industrial motors are present:
Benshaw's soft starters and VFDs deliver advanced motor control and protection functionality, an easy-to-use interface, exceptional input and output flexibility, and connectivity options supporting all major communications protocols.
These add-on products can improve the performance and longevity of almost any industrial motor for reduced downtime. Here’s how:
Benshaw understands customers’ needs for time savings, reduced risk, better performance, and service. So, they’ve built their reputation around simplifying the purchase of prepackaged motor starters and drives.
Prepackaged motor control solutions reduce the risk of wiring or configuration errors by combining the starter or drive, protective devices, enclosures, controls, and interfaces into a single, factory-assembled unit.
Prepackaged solutions, such as Benshaw’s soft starters and variable frequency drives, are plug-and-play, with quick delivery times of one to two days from strategically located warehouses.
This approach delivers:
These benefits are especially valuable when responding to unplanned outages or upgrading older equipment.
Packaged low-voltage soft starters combine the starter, enclosure, protection devices, and controls into a single unit. These are ideal when a facility needs a clean, fast solution without coordinating multiple components.
Best for: New builds, retrofits, fast replacements
Why engineers choose them: Smoother starts, simplified installation with reduced electrical and mechanical stress, and everything is included.
Common applications:
MCE also offers:
Variable frequency drives allow operators to control motor speed and torque, making them ideal for processes that don’t need to run at full speed all the time.
Best for: Speed control, energy savings, process optimization
Why engineers choose them: Precision and flexibility of motor speed and torque.
Common applications:
Benshaw offers packaged and non-packaged VFD solutions. Packaged VFDs are ideal when time is critical because they are fully enclosed, factory-assembled, and ready for installation. They are on the shelf, ready to go, often with one- or two-day turnarounds on delivery.
Non-packaged VFDs are drives that can be used when existing infrastructure already provides protection and controls.
In many facilities, motor control issues are not immediately obvious. Problems often surface only after a line goes down, and the root cause may be the motor, the starter, the drive, or a combination of factors.
To support troubleshooting and system awareness, Benshaw motor control products include:
These features help maintenance teams quickly identify issues and make informed decisions about repairs or replacements.
MCE’s automation and rotating equipment division provides fast and economical solutions for electric motor problems. We work hand-in-hand with Benshaw’s service and repair support to make sure your operations don’t skip a beat.
We have one of the largest industrial motor inventories in all of North America and shops in Toledo, OH & Henderson, NV, allowing us to ship motors within two days to any part of North America. We also have a full EASA reconditioning shop.
We fully test and inspect all motors from our inventory prior to shipping to the customer. This includes motors that are new, used, or rebuilt, including a one-year warranty.
Contact us and speak to an expert to discuss your motor needs today.