In this article, a fault-tolerant strategy based on model predictive current control (MPCC) is proposed to improve the output torque capacity and decrease the torque ripple of a five-phase permanent synchronous magnet motor (PMSM) drive under single and multiple open-circuit faults operations (OCFs). On the principle of the optimal current control, the current reference is modified to suppress torque ripple. Finally, the proposed strategy is proved effective by experiments.