The rapid development of real-time sensing and monitoring technologies for improving early leakage and water quality anomaly detection are an effective way to address these challenges as ABB’s Clayton Mead describes: There is increasing pressure on water utilities to lower their total cost of ownership and high leakage rates. By combining smart monitoring technology with variable speed drives … Continue reading →
A single failure or plant trip can result in substantial production losses, especially for industries operating in hazardous areas. Remote condition monitoring minimises any risk of unplanned shutdowns but has been limited for hostile environments by the lack of a cost efficient and easy to deploy solutions. The arrival of a new variant of the … Continue reading →
David Hughes, ABB UK’s Managing Director looks at the powertrain technologies currently available to the water industry and asks if their potential is being fully realised. Finding ways to deliver innovation in the UK water industry has long been a bone of contention between Ofwat and the water companies. With innovation very much a keystone … Continue reading →
Haven’t the last few months been rather surreal? I am guessing your company, like ours, are busy putting in new measures to keep staff and customers as safe as possible. In an effort kick start returning to a form of normality and to enable us to continue to add value to our customers, we are … Continue reading →
Steve Hughes, ABB’s digital lead for its motion business, discusses how digitalisation is changing the face of the pump powertrain. Pumps are a vital part of processes in many industries, not least the water and wastewater sector. In this industry, the health and wellbeing of a water utility’s customers are at stake and as such, … Continue reading →
As the demands on the bakery production process become higher, and margins become tighter, ABB’s Andrew Bould, explains how variable speed drives (VSDs) and low voltage motors can help to increase profitability without compromising quality. Changing consumer habits and tastes means bakeries not only need to produce identical, high volume products, but also small batches … Continue reading →
The low voltage (LV) motor is the workhorse of industry, driving conveyors, mixers, pumps and fans. Monitoring the condition of each LV motor is a complex and costly challenge. That all changes with ABB’s smart sensor technology. Now tracking the motor’s health is as simple as opening a smartphone app. Studies show that a good … Continue reading →
The ABB Ability™ Smart Sensor provides data for the predictive maintenance of low voltage motors. In partnership with Emile Egger, a Swiss producer of pumps, ABB has now developed the solution to remotely monitor pumps. The pump manufacturer Emile Egger is constantly on the look-out for ways to improve its products and processes. Michel Grimm, … Continue reading →
Low voltage electric motors power a wide variety of applications, in almost every aspect of industrial life. From Heating and Ventilation systems, pumps, fans, grinders, compressors, conveyors, mixers, the application list is almost endless. We know the importance of maintaining these workhorses, but what if you knew the condition of each motor on your site, … Continue reading →
A new smart sensing solution from ABB can reduce downtimes of low-voltage motors by up to 70 percent and extend their lifetime by up to 30 percent. A device that cost efficiently monitors the condition of low voltage (LV) motors to increase their performance, efficiency, reliability and lifespan is now available in the UK. The … Continue reading →
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