Life Cycle Assessment

Do you know where your drive population sits within the ABB life cycle above?

As Authorised ABB Value Providers, you can be confident that APDS will provide a comprehensive overview of all your AC drives assets, where they are and what process they are on. This gives you the life cycle status of each drive and helps you access risks to your business.

How old is it? Does it need manufacturers recommended maintenance? Is your production at risk? Are there spares available? Is your drive classed as obsolete?

The comprehensive way to manage your installed base.

APDS’ Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), as recommended by drives manufacturer ABB, provides a clear understanding of the drive installed base of a particular facility. We equip you with a long-term management plan, which includes a record of all your drives, their criticality to the process and defined maintenance actions.

Understanding installed base
In Life Cycle Assessment, you can combine the drives maintenance status with their criticality to the process or application for further maintenance planning.

Complete planning for maintenance
As the level of criticality of applications will be assessed, clear priorities for maintenance actions can be set. The maintenance planning with be done according to the drive manufacturer’s proposition.

Less unexpected interruption

As maintenance actions are performed according to given instructions and clear priorities, fewer unexpected interruptions will occur. The critical applications up-time will improve dramatically also.

Better installed base management

Life Cycle Assessment defines clearly when to upgrade, retrofit or replace listed drives. This means also improved service budget management as total plants’ maintenance actions can be planned and budget for years to come.

APDS Life Cycle Management of your ABB Drives Products

The probability of a failure in electronic equipment, such as drives, increases after a certain period. The main reason is aging of components. From Figure below you can see that after a repair the reliability of a drive decreases because the aging and the wearing still carries on since it is an irreversible process. To get rid of such increased probability of failure, ABB has created a Preventive Maintenance Program which provides each drive family a scheduled maintenance aimed to replace aging components inside the drive.

APDS’s ABB Preventive Maintenance Program provides additional maintenance activities which optimise the efficiency of the maintenance itself. The environmental conditions of the control rooms, such as temperature, dust (conductive and not), relative humidity, corrosive gases, are decreasing the life span of components over time.

With a full risk analysis and report of your assets, we can help you can pinpoint high-risk drives and take action to mitigate any risk to your production. Boost productivity by minimising unexpected maintenance or breakdowns. Gain a complete overview of all your AC drives from ABB or any other manufacturer.

Reduce risk of failed AC drives with expert inspection using industry-leading assessment tools to ensure a high productivity with a structured maintenance plan. Our proactive and preventive maintenance service will extend the service life of your equipment. We advise you of obsolete ranges and prepare a plan to replace on failure should that be your choice.

Guarantee your UpTime

With a full risk analysis and report of your assets, we can help you can pinpoint high-risk drives and take action to mitigate any risk to your production. Boost productivity by minimizing unexpected maintenance or breakdowns. Gain a complete overview of all your AC drives from ABB or any other manufacturer. Reduce risk of failed AC drives with expert inspection using industry-leading assessment tools to ensure a high productivity with a structured maintenance plan. Our proactive and preventive maintenance service will extend the service life of your equipment. We advise you of obsolete ranges and prepare a plan to replace on failure should that be your choice.

Lifetime Support

APDS support will you with spares and consumables to ensure that you get exactly the right OEM spare part in full working order, quickly and within the agreed timeframe, even 20 years from now, we are the right service partner for you today and in the future.

To keep your workforce up to date on legacy or the latest Drive products from ABB, we provide a tailored training programme to meet your site assets. This training can be provided as part of an annual Service Package at your premises or own training suite in Bristol.

Contact APDS to start your Bespoke Service Plan