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Industry: Dairy Application: Milking Parlour Site Challenge: Milkflo Dairy Systems, an OEM manufacturer, supplies and services milking and feeding systems for dairy farms throughout Cornwall, Devon, and the Southwest. Managing Director George Berriman wanted to offer dairy farmers in the area an option to add VSDs to their milking parlour machinery to cut their energy […]

Industry: Food & Bev Application: Compressor Site Challenge: PAR Foods offers the complete food export solution. They take care of everything from logistics to customs entries so their clients can focus on their own business. When dealing with shorter shelf lives, they know the importance of getting orders to site as quickly as possible. Shipping […]

Application: Pumps Industry: Water and wastewater treatment Challenge: Welsh Water needed to pump water to, and sewage away from, roads on new housing estates. The existing solution consisted of motor control centres (MCCs) with their own PLC and human-machine interface. They were costly and complex as they needed to be customised for each scheme and […]

Industry: Plastic Injection Moulding Manufacturing Application: Cooling Roof Fans Site Challenge: During the warmer months, a plastic moulding injection factory became excessively warm due to the nature of its production processes, necessitating the use of roof vent fans for air circulation. The operation of these fans during a Noise Audit resulted in elevated ambient noise […]

Industry: Automotive Application: Motor Upgrades Site Challenge: BMW Group’s Mini manufacturing plant in Oxford had a large installed base of its original legacy IE1/IE2 motors which have a reduced efficiency level. Installing the latest motor technology with the latest IE5 synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) and drive packages from ABB, could increase plant efficiency, reduce costs […]

Industry: Aggregates Application: Air Handling Fans Site Challenge: Aggregate production at Hills Quarry Products’ Cerney Wick site in Gloucestershire demands a high volume of water which returns to a sump for pumping to a settling bed. Float level switches in the sump activate a fixed speed pump. However, the fixed speed could be too high […]

Industry: Food Manufacture Application: Fans Site Challenge: The Heinz factory in Wigan produces over 1.3 billion cans of food per year. This requires 100 tonnes of steam every hour, used for both heating the factory space and sterilisation of canned foods. The plant’s energy centre has four boilers. Each has two gas-fired burners supplied by […]