Posted July 25, 2019
A challenging installation, a tight deadline, rigorous site safety standards...and double 300 mm steel wire armour cable to contend with. Some of the EDC engineers have been on site for two weeks carefully completing this retrofit using ABB drives. Engineered in-house by our design team, and managed to the final... [Details]
Posted July 18, 2019
EDC North East Ltd shareholders sealed the deal last week with the official ceremony, completing the legal process. John Guthrie, Matthew Hutton and Neil Keenan all signed on the dotted line, making them an intrinsic part of EDC NE - the north east's Authorized value provider for ABB drives. Said... [Details]
Posted July 04, 2019
EDC North East’s latest panel - bound for the petrochemical industry - was tested this morning. Fitted with a 30kW ABB ACS880 industrial drive, complete with digital I/O extension and modbus adapter, the panel was intricately wired by our north east engineers. Once sited, our ABB approved engineers will commission... [Details]
Posted June 19, 2019
EDC took delivery of two ABB ACS880-17-0870A-3+B054 500kW regen drives this week. Awaiting the customer's inspection in our workshop, they will be replacing existing ABB ACS600 inverters which are over 16 years old. Once sited, the EDC engineers will get to work commissioning the units, taking care of the comms conversion from... [Details]
Posted June 05, 2019
At EDC we believe ‘hands-on’ training is the best way to teach your engineers. That’s why OUR engineers built a bespoke demonstration / training panel. Designed by Steven Quinn and our engineering team, the panel houses three ABB ACQ580 drives and an ABB HMI interface.This interface provides a system overview... [Details]
Posted May 28, 2019
Well done to ABB this month for being crowned winners of the Motion Control Industry (MCI) award for 'Contribution to Skills and Training' for their top-of-the-range VSD and motor training. All ABB Authorized value providers (AVPs) receive extensive on-going training from ABB, so when your engineers train with an AVP... [Details]
Posted May 22, 2019
Join EDC and ABB on 25th June 2019 for our breakfast seminar on 'Smart Technology and Saving Energy in Process Plants' in Falkirk. If you work in the chemical or pharmaceutical industry you can't afford to miss it! The briefing will cover two key industry topics faced by companies:1) Energy... [Details]
Posted May 16, 2019
At EDC we only hire the best. And we only hire ABB. Scrupulously maintained by ABB-trained engineers (so you know they’re ready to plug & play) our vast range of ABB hire drives (we stock up to 500kW) can be shipped same day to your site, where they can also... [Details]
Posted April 30, 2019
Think you need a PLC? Think again. EDC commissioning enginner, Steven Quinn, demonstrates how you can commission four ABB ACQ590 variable speed drives, digitally linking four separate inverters to form one intelligent pumping system. PLCs need not RSVP.... See more on the ABB ACQ580 range of inverters. Perfect for the... [Details]
Posted April 26, 2019
Watch your kilowatts crumble with an energy survey by the award-winning EDC group! EDC has just been announced as the winner of ABB’s AVP ‘Energy Appraisal Competition 2018’. Last year EDC estimated customers who undertook an energy survey could have saved £1,664,079 (annual savings) 26,362,937 (energy saved in kWh) and... [Details]
