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Plastics Extrusion: Profiles & Tubes
Issues
- Customers typically require precise lengths of profiles or tubes
- Machines have sensitive electronic controls
- Machines use variable speed drives
Poblems Arise
- Any significant voltage variation, even for a small fraction of a second, can cause malfunction of drives or controls.
- Result can be hours of downtime and significant costs
- Significant scrap is caused - may not be possible to recycle material
- Scrap + Downtime = Loss of Profit Opportunities
Solution
- Active Voltage Conditioner (AVC) will correct voltage variations; voltage sags, voltage phase unbalance, 3 phase harmonics & voltage swells (option)
- AVCs can be applied to groups of machines, individual machines or a complete site - available in indoor or custom outdoor enclosures.
- AVCs available at low voltage and medium voltage to 36 kV
- AVCs have small footprint and very high efficiency
- AVCs can be located close to sensitive machiner
Benefits:
- AVC allows process to continue
- Costly unplanned production stoppages are avoided
- Scrap material and emergency maintenance are avoided
- Profits are retained
- Payback period for AVC investment typically less than 12 months.
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Power sags and brownouts create serious and costly production problems.
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