Bristol-based engineering company, APDS, is celebrating its 20th anniversary by achieving significant expansion milestones, including the opening of a new regional office, a new warehouse, and a successful recruitment drive to increase their engineering capacity. This strategic growth also includes the appointment of a dedicated Area Sales Manager for Wales. As regional partners for global […]
Recently, we had to replace a 25-year-old ABB ACS600 drive with the latest ACQ580 water drive. With a full suite of onboard software, this compact drive enhances the pumping performance on site for another 25 years. Weighing in at 97kg, the installation was made safer using our APDS Easy Fit frame. This innovative and easy […]
APDS proudly announces the grand opening of its Redruth ABB Drive Training Centre, a hub dedicated to advancing engineers’ understanding of Variable Speed Drives (VSD) technology. With a dual focus on introducing VSD principles to those who haven’t worked with them before, whilst also enhancing the knowledge of existing drive users to help them optimise […]
We are becoming increasingly concerned about the amount of hire drives we are finding on site as the solution to “fix” a failed drive. In the most recent case, a Sewage Treatment Works had a 22kW Control Techniques drive which had failed over 12 months ago, and the company called out to ‘fix’ the issue […]
At the end of 2023 we received the SME News award for “Leading Provider of ABB Drives & Motors 2023”. The award arrived at our office last week and where better place to display it than in our ABB Drives & Motors training facility. Now we know there are some sceptics out there about these […]
We were recently called out to a water site to assist after a failure of a variable speed drive. The drive was part of one of the site’s critical applications and so it was important to get the replacement fitted as quickly as possible. Our customers trust APDS to have drives in stock and engineers […]
Christmas Out of Hours Support Our Out of Hours’ Support details over the Christmas period are detailed below: Technical Support
APDS is celebrating following our “Highest Growth for Diverse Portfolio in Service” award at the recent ABB Motion conference held in Estonia. The honour was accepted by our Managing Director, Nathan Morgan, who also had the privilege of delivering a segment highlighting APDS’ achievements in the Food & Beverage industry, sharing the stage with Rory […]
With standing losses equating to £2,190 pa/per kWhr @nominal 25p per kWhr – over the nominal 20 years life of this Drive, the savings on transformer losses alone can be substantial. Even a 1kW saving eliminating these transformer losses would equate to £43,800 over 20 years. Over the past few months, APDS has been rolling […]
Because we know the product inside out, have access to genuine spare parts – usually from stock, and are fully trained and audited by ABB.
