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Wedges of drive training served on a bed of ABB inverter expertise - EDC offers an à la carte menu of drive training! Head ‘chef’ Steven Quinn yesterday showed a team of engineers from the oil and gas industry how best to serve this dish with practical hands-on training. Using demo cases during... [Details]

We’re getting better, growing stronger every day! EDC is pleased to welcome 2 new members of staff to our ranks. Konrad will be responsible for Health and Safety and will also help manage our ever-busy service diary, while Anthony, our new drives’ engineer, will be attending sites to service, install... [Details]

The tide is high… When the combination of heavy rainfall and a high tide left a critical utilities site a foot deep in river and seawater at the weekend, the customer turned to EDC to stop them from being left high (but not dry). Attending site with a new ABB... [Details]

‘Twas the night before Christmas…and the production line was down. It was 2.30pm to be precise, on Christmas Eve, when the emergency number flashed, revealing a site with a service contract had experienced the breakdown of a drive. It was crucial to production. A veteran drive from the 1980s had... [Details]

Boxing clever with EDC NE. A Boxing Day breakdown saw our engineers attending site, when a customer reported an issue with two 1MW variable speed drives. Neil Keenan, one of our top EDC NE inverter engineers, identified the issue faster than you could eat a mincemeat pie and normal service... [Details]

On the first day of Christmas my distributor sent to me a brand-new inverter by ABB.On the second day of Christmas my distributor sent to me a SynRM which arrived by DPD.On the third day of Christmas my distributor sent to me 2 engineers from EDC NE.The other days didn’t... [Details]

“We’re out on strike.” The reindeer saidWhen Santa went to check his sleigh.“What’s that?” said Santa, much surprised,“Is it because of your low pay?”“It’s not the money,” Rudolph said:He was the shop steward for the ‘boys’.“It’s the sleigh is much too heavyWhen loaded up with gifts and toys.It’s really hard... [Details]

ABB! ABB! So good they bought them twice! When this multi-national company decided to upgrade their ABB ACS800 inverters, they swapped them out with...ABB ACS880 inverters. So impressed were they with the ability and longevity of the workhorse ACS800 units, ACS880s were the obvious choice. Because you know what they... [Details]

I can see clearly now… There’s a ‘visible’ difference since this specialist glass company had a new ABB ACS580-04 installed.When the customer’s old drive failed we provided a hire unit to keep production running.This week, with their new inverter delivered, two of our top team attended site to disconnect and... [Details]

Winch me up before you go go… Top EDC North East engineers, Matthew Golightly and Neil Keenan were on an uplifting job this week when a customer asked for assistance with a winch test. The test used 4 off ABB ACS880 variable speed drives (132kW) working in master / follower.... [Details]