What is APDS ?

APDS is an independant Limited Company based in Bristol. The company is associated with ABB being a Drives Alliance Partner, Motor Service Partner and Soft Start Partner

What is the Specialty of the company?

Working with clients to supply energy saving solutions using ABB inverter drives and motors?

surely Inverters are difficult to program and unreliable.

Modern ABB Drives (to use today's term) are very easy to program using keypads with an 'Assistant' built in. The keypads look like modern mobile phones and use a similar structure of menus.
The reliability of ABB drives is outstanding with circuit boards having thousands of hours 'mean time between failure'. The quality of the build, selection of components and ABB's legendary QA systems assure the purchaser of a long trouble free service.

Is Energy Saving policy just paying lip-service to International agreements?

Blige! as we say in Bristol. Just have a look in a typical factory. It will not be long before you find a pump with the output throttled or a fan with the output restricted. The motor runs flat out while energy is being wasted. But put into service an inverter on this application and slow the motor down and the energy savings are dramatic. If everyone did this the energy savings would mount-up and there would be less greenhouse gas emitted from power-stations. But just think of the savings on the electricity bill !

Go On Prove it !

We don't need a slick salesman to sell this to you!
We leave an energy monitor in circuit with the existing arrangement for a week or so. We then download that data and add the drive and monitor the new energy taken over that period of time. By comparing the saving in energy with the price of a drive/installation our energy report will be it's own salesperson. After providing saving on this element we proceed through a line or factory and help save energy in other places.
It is your energy bill that APDS can cut !

What area does APDS cover ?

We sell motors and drives into the South West from Cornwall to Southampton and up to Gloucester. In addition we sell drives in South Wales

What is this ABB partnership ?Just a cerficate to hang on the wall ?

The ABB Drives Alliance Partnership and Motors Service Partnership is a dynamic working arrangement of like-minded independent companies across the Country. It means that resources are pooled to provide a common standard of service for all customers. For example if you have a service problem outside of our normal area there will be a partner that is able to offer as good a service as ours. In addition the stocks of motors and drives are shared to allow quick deliveries. It is a lively dynamic arrangement and meets regularly in forum to improve itself and ABB. It is the envy of other industries who have tried to copy the concept and failed. APDS Limited like the other members are committed to the concept and this partnership works in uniting facilities for everyone's benefit.
The success of the principal has been extended into Soft-Starts.