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.

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SINAMICS G Smart Access Module

SINAMICS Smart Access Module
Sinamics G120 Series Drive

With the SINAMICS Smart Access Module, you connect wirelessly your mobile devices (smartphone, tablet, laptop) via WiFi to the SINAMICS Gconverter series. This gives you a powerful tool with numerous functionsfor wireless commissioning, diagnostics, and service. 

The module is set up in just a few steps. No installation or downloading of additional software required due to the web server function. 

A standard web browser and a commercially available operating system are all you need. The user interface of the SINAMICS Smart Access Module is simple and intuitive in its configuration and use. Read more here:

SINAMICS G Smart Access Module

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