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‘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]

It’s a frame-up! These three ABB ACQ580 water industry drives lined up to provide energy savings and pump control for a water site. An 'arresting' array of 132kW IP55 units, they were ‘marshalled’ onto a dedicated framework’ ‘fabricated’ by our expert engineers on site. Not only does this arrangement allow... [Details]

Rolling, rolling, rolling… A new conveyor system comprising rollers, conveyor belt and material distributor will be expertly managed by a dedicated control panel with 4 x ABB ACS480 drives from the talented EDC NE engineers. Not only is the panel designed to ‘blow the whistle’ with a pre-start siren before... [Details]

We can’t speak Gaelic... so we’ll let the stunning scenery do the talking. Normally we’d let the drives (in this case ABB ACQ580 water drives in a water treatment works) take centre stage, but here we just had to showcase the stunning location. Our variable speed drive service engineers cover... [Details]