Schneider Electric (Lexium)

Schneider Electric (Lexium) contact details

Head office

35 rue Joseph Monier
92500 Rueil-Malmaison
France

Website se.com/uk/en

Schneider Electric Ltd (UK head office)

2nd Floor, 80 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5JL
United Kingdom

Telephone +44 330 587 8030

Web se.com/uk/en/about-us/company-profile/schneider-electric-uk

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Contact details as published by Schneider Electric SE, checked 2026-10-30. Specify Motion is not affiliated with Schneider Electric SE.

Schneider Electric (Lexium) product lines

Who Schneider Electric is in motion control

Schneider Electric SE is a French group best known for electrical distribution, energy management and industrial automation. Its automation business covers PLCs (Modicon), drives, safety, sensors and motion control. Lexium is the name of its motion range, which runs from compact servo drives and motors through multi-axis servo systems to integrated drives, stepper drives, robots and a multi-carrier transport system.

This profile concentrates on the Lexium servo motors and drives and the motion controllers that coordinate them. Lexium, PacDrive and Modicon are trademarks of Schneider Electric.

History and ownership

Schneider Electric’s history begins in 1836, when brothers Adolphe and Joseph-Eugène Schneider took over the Le Creusot foundry in Burgundy. For more than a century Schneider & Cie was a heavy engineering business: it built France’s first steam locomotives in 1838 and made armaments until it left that business in 1949. It moved into electrical equipment in the twentieth century, opening an electrical equipment factory in Champagne-sur-Seine in 1902.

The automation business was built largely through acquisition. Télémécanique, founded in 1924, was acquired in 1988; Square D in 1991; Merlin Gerin in 1992; and Modicon, whose 084 PLC dates from 1968, in 1997. The same year Schneider’s Transparent Factory concept brought Ethernet and Modbus/TCP onto the factory floor. In 2009 the Merlin Gerin and Télémécanique brands moved to the Schneider Electric name, and in 2016 the EcoStruxure architecture and IoT platform were launched. The group took full ownership of the industrial software company AVEVA in 2022.

Schneider Electric SE is a European company with a board of directors, registered in Nanterre under number 542 048 574, and owned by its shareholders. In the UK the business is Schneider Electric Ltd, registered in England under number 1407228.

Lexium servo and motion portfolio

Servo drives

The general-purpose range is Lexium 32: four drive models from 0.15 to 11 kW, paired with BMH and BSH servo motors. For smaller machines, Lexium 28 bundles drives with BCH2 motors from 0.05 to 4.5 kW, and Lexium 23 Plus covers 0.1 to 7.5 kW.

For PacDrive 3 systems, the Lexium 52 stand-alone drives run from 0.4 to 7 kW. The Lexium 62 multi-axis servo system spans 0.95 to 24 kW, with single drives from 6 to 130 A peak, double drives from 2 x 6 to 2 x 27 A peak and shared power supplies. It talks Sercos to the controller and has embedded STO, SS1, SS2, SOS, SLS, SDI and SMS safety functions. SH3 and MH3 motors, and SHS stainless steel motors for hygienic areas, pair with these drives.

Integrated drives

The Lexium 32i puts the servo drive on the motor, from 0.6 to 2.2 kW, which removes cabinet space and motor cables from decentralised machine designs. Lexium 62 ILM modules do the same within PacDrive 3, and the ILA, ILE and ILS integrated drives serve simpler positioning duties.

Motion controllers

The PacDrive 3 LMC Eco, Pro and Pro 2 controllers synchronise up to 130 servo or robot axes at a 1 ms network update rate and handle up to 255 virtual axes, combining PLC, HMI interface and IT functions in one unit. Schneider also lists the Modicon M262 logic and motion controller, the Modicon LMC058 and the Modicon M660 IPC motion controller. Our motion controller hub explains how to size a controller by axis count and update rate.

Technologies and standards

Lexium 62 safety functions are executed in the drive and selected over Sercos, with PLCopen safety function blocks available, and the inverter-enable safety input is specified to EN ISO 13849-1. PacDrive 3 uses Sercos as its real-time axis bus, while Schneider’s wider automation offer leans on Ethernet and Modbus/TCP, a protocol family it has promoted since the Modicon era. The Lexium robots (delta, SCARA and Cartesian) are controlled from the same PacDrive 3 controllers, so a packaging line can run servo axes and pick-and-place robots from one program.

Industries served

Schneider’s Lexium 62 page points to general machine control, packaging machine automation and material handling. The delta robots are positioned for pick-and-place, and the MC12 multi-carrier for moving, positioning and grouping products in discrete-process machines. See our packaging and food page for the motion needs of that market.

Global and UK presence

Schneider Electric Ltd’s UK head office is at 2nd Floor, 80 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL, telephone 0330 587 8030, and the company operates from several sites across the UK. Engineers can buy Lexium products from Schneider Electric directly or through the distributors listed under “Where to buy” on se.com/uk.

Sourcing Lexium parts through Specify Motion

Specify Motion is independent of Schneider Electric and is not affiliated with it. We can help you source Lexium servo drives and motors for an existing machine, or propose equivalents from our supply network on published figures. Send a part number through the find a replacement form.

Schneider Electric (Lexium) history: key dates

1. 1836Adolphe and Joseph-Eugène Schneider take over the Le Creusot foundry in Burgundy
2. 1924Télémécanique founded
3. 1968Modicon founded; the Modicon 084 PLC is invented
4. 1988Télémécanique acquired
5. 1991Square D acquired
6. 1997Modicon acquired; Transparent Factory brings Ethernet and Modbus/TCP to the shop floor
7. 2009Merlin Gerin and Télémécanique brands migrate to Schneider Electric
8. 2016EcoStruxure architecture and IoT platform launched

Schneider Electric (Lexium) servo drives

AC servo drive

Lexium 32 servo drives with BMH/BSH motors

General-purpose servo range of four Lexium 32 drive models from 0.15 to 11 kW, paired with BMH and BSH servo motors.

AC servo drive

Lexium 28 servo drives with BCH2 motors

Compact servo drive and BCH2 motor bundles from 0.05 to 4.5 kW for compact machines.

AC servo drive

Lexium 52 servo drives

Stand-alone servo drives from 0.4 to 7 kW for PacDrive 3 automation systems.

Multi-axis servo drive

Lexium 62 multi-axis servo system

Multi-axis servo system for PacDrive 3 from 0.95 to 24 kW: single drives with 6–130 A peak, double drives with 2 x 6 to 2 x 27 A peak, Sercos communication and embedded safety functions.

Schneider Electric (Lexium) servo motors

Integrated servo motor

Lexium 32i integrated servo drive

Servo motor with the drive built on, from 0.6 to 2.2 kW, for decentralised machine designs.

Schneider Electric (Lexium) controllers, plcs and hmis

Motion controller

PacDrive 3 LMC Eco / Pro / Pro 2

Logic motion controllers that synchronise up to 130 servo or robot axes at a 1 ms network update rate, with up to 255 virtual axes, combining PLC, HMI interface and IT functions.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Schneider Electric website for Lexium?

Lexium products sit on se.com, Schneider Electric's global website. UK visitors use se.com/uk/en/, where the servo drives and motors subcategory lists Lexium 23 Plus, 28, 32, 52 and 62, and the motion control and robotics category covers PacDrive 3, Modicon motion controllers and Lexium robots. Documentation and a product selector are linked from each range page.

What is the Schneider Electric UK phone number?

The Schneider Electric UK company profile page gives 0330 587 8030 (+44 330 587 8030 from abroad) for the UK head office at 80 Victoria Street, London. Product and support enquiries can also go through the help and contact centre linked from se.com/uk.

Where is Schneider Electric's headquarters?

Schneider Electric SE's head office is at 35 rue Joseph Monier, 92500 Rueil-Malmaison, France, west of Paris. The company is registered in Nanterre under number 542 048 574. The UK head office of Schneider Electric Ltd is at 2nd Floor, 80 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL.

Who owns Lexium?

Lexium is a product range of Schneider Electric SE, a European company (Societas Europaea) with a board of directors, owned by its shareholders. In the UK the range is sold by Schneider Electric Ltd, registered in England under company number 1407228. Lexium is a trademark of Schneider Electric.

Does Schneider Electric have a UK office?

Yes. Schneider Electric Ltd has its UK head office at 2nd Floor, 80 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL and operates from several UK sites. The UK locations page on se.com lists its sites.

What does Lexium include?

Lexium covers servo drives and motors (Lexium 23 Plus, 28, 32, 52 and 62), integrated servo drives (Lexium 32i, 62 ILM and ILA/ILE/ILS), stepper drives (SD2, SD3), robots (SCARA, delta, cobots and Cartesian axes) and the MC12 multi-carrier. PacDrive 3 LMC controllers coordinate the PacDrive-based drives.

Sources

1. Schneider Electric: Legal information
2. Schneider Electric: History of our company, brand and innovation
3. Schneider Electric UK: About us
4. Schneider Electric UK: Locations
5. Schneider Electric: Lexium master range
6. Schneider Electric UK: Servo drives and motors
7. Schneider Electric UK: Lexium 32 and motors
8. Schneider Electric UK: Lexium 52 and motors
9. Schneider Electric UK: Lexium 62 and motors
10. Schneider Electric: Motion control and robotics
11. Schneider Electric: PacDrive 3 LMC Eco / Pro / Pro 2

Figures are summarised from the sources above and from manufacturers' published data on the date shown. Always confirm against the current datasheet for your exact part.