Projects

We have engineered hundreds of projects with values up to £500,000. Below are details of some of our upgrades:

EMP Belt Line for Kunshan, Jiangsu Province China. Design, supply, commission control system for a belt manufacturing machine. Fully integrated Siemens solution comprising PLC, SINAMICS Drives, WinCC, PROFISafe system (safety integrated PLC).

 

 

 

Lithographic Aluminium Strip Line for Zheng Zhou. Turnkey project for strip processing line, 14xSiemens AC SINAMICS Drives, Siemens PLC, SCADA, Servo drives, PROFISafe. Totally integrated package makes lithographic plate for use in the printing industry.

 

 

Paper coating machine. Design, supply, installation and commissioning of complete drive system retrofit to their paper coating line. 98xAC Vector Drives, 13xDC Section drives, 40A to 720A.

 

 

4x off Jagenberg Dual-roll rewinder. Complete control system upgrade for 4x Jagenberg dual-roll winders. Complete pneumatic, electrical and safety system upgrade on the machine. SSD DC Drives, Siemens S7-300 PLC, PILZ, PNOZ Multi Programmable safety.

Dual-roll MYLAR coater control system. Design, supply, commission on two-sided coater for MYLAR product, Siemens S7-400 PLC, Reliance Drives, Rockwell SCADA.

Dual-roll Tyvek coater control system. Design, supply, commision on dual-roll gravure coater, 4xAC Vector drives in load-share, flotation oven and floatation air-turn unit control, GE Fanuc PLC, Cimplicity SCADA, Siemens Drives (Micromaster, Masterdrives)

Process Line Ltd. Italy

Aluminium Strip Line for Verona Lastra Italy

Makes lithographic plate for use in the printing industry.

Process Line Ltd. South Africa

Aluminium Strip Line for First Graphics, South Africa.

Makes lithographic plate for use in the printing industry.

Crown Paints, Darwen

5x palletising line upgrades for paint tins/

News Siemens PLC control system for 5xpaint tin palletising lines.

Replaced obsolete Siemens SIMATIC 505/535 PLC.

Linpac Packaging, Yorkshire

Extruder 71 Control Panel Replacement.

Produces plastic film which is vacuum formed into containers for various foods.

Main extruder and melt pump replacement, Siemens PLC, SSD Drives solution.

CCL Decorative Sleeves

DCM Printing Press Modifications.

Design, supply and commissioning of a new drive system for their existing print machine.

FFP Packaging, Northampton

Wax Machine Line Drive System.

Design, supply and commissioning of a new DC drive system for their wax coating line.

Flexel International, Glenrothes, Scotland

New control system for a printing/laminating machine

Design, supply and commissioning of a new machine control system for manufacturing Ecofilm under-floor heating. Flexel International are one of the largest manufacturers of under-floor, ceiling and compact panel heating elements.

Kodak Ltd

Control System for Jagenberg machine.

High speed cutting line including rotary shear control system.

Aluminium Strip coating line control system.

Outokumpu Stainless Ltd.

Foil Annealing Line control system.

Including Wonderware SCADA package, GE Fanuc PLC, Parker SSD Drives.

Lawson Mardon Flexibles

Sciavi Printing Press Refit – Turnkey Package

DuPont Teijin Films Ltd, Wilton

Stenter Line Drive System – Turnkey Package

C Perkin Ltd.

Cardboard Tube Machine – High speed Siemens servo drive application.

Manufacturing cardboard tubes at linear material input speed of 100m/min.

Recent Posts

Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Drive Technology from Optima

The innovative sinamics G220 variable frequency drive from Siemens not only helps reduce harmonics (Gary Wilcock) but is also a more sustainable drive choice. Let us explain.

The animation below shows the draft panel layouts for 8 drives using the G120 drives along with the required input and output reactors due to the long cable lengths involved for this installation. 

Shown on the right of the animation is the draft layout using the new G220 drives.

The new G220 drives, allow us to accommodate double the number of drives in one cabinet as no chokes are required.

SINAMICS G220 – the variable frequency drive for all industries

It has helped Optima Control Solutions Ltd make this a more sustainable design. 

Not only have we have reduced CO2 emissions in transit as the cabinet is lighter, we have also reduced the amount of minerals required to build by avoiding additional copper in the line chokes and steel in the chokes and cabinets.

The fusing for the other 8 drives has been moved to an adjacent cabinet where there are other drive sizes located. The control panel build is now underway. 

A big thanks to Ben Poole, too for his timely demonstration of these excellent drives. Sustainability CleanTech

 

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