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The about-us part is kept very short, because we want you to find out what we can do for you, and answer your question “what is in it for me?”

 


What can we do for you?

  • Do you have critical machinery impacting your production process?
  • Are you looking to match your power drive system into your process?
  • Are you suffering from information overload and time constraints?
  • Are you struggling to get imediate and unbiased practical advice on a specific phase of the lifecyle of your medium voltage power drive system (MV VFD) system?
  • Looking to ensure that your input isolation transformer, medium voltage vfd drive and motor are matched for the application in terms of reliability, efficiency, safety, quality and performance?

Thanks to more than 25 years of drive application experience combined with our structured approach of decades of project management, we can advice you to ensure your critical machines are driven reliably, efficiently and safely.

We learned form the best, ranging from field service for Reliance Electric in the ninetees, over project engineering at  Schneider Electric in the early 2000s, Rockwell Automation and last but not least project management drive technologies at Siemens Large Drives applications.

In which phase of the lifecycle are you looking for answers & clarifications?

 

We can assist you over the complete lifecycle of  your medium voltage power drive system (MV VFD) system for your critical machine, from initial planning to ongoing operation:

    Project Inception & Planning Phase:

    ⊕ Assessing the needs of your stakeholders for your critical machinery being driven by the VFD:

        • What to accomplish?
        • Why?
        • Proove that the system needs it: how to verify?

    ⊕ Establish requirements for the Power Drive System (PDS):

        • Translating the stakeholders needs into high level functional requirements.
        • Refining to clear, concise and unambiguous requirements that can be validated and traced back to the needs
          for the required components such as transformer, variable frequency drive, and motor.
        • Avoid where possible to specify implementations. (Not how)

    ⊕ Define the project scope:

        • The limits of scope of supply for the power drive system.
        • Responsibilities and services that comprise the supply.
        • Installation, start-up and maintenance.

    ⊕ Organize pre-bid meetings:

        • Initial meetings for vendors and contractors involved in the PDS project

    Procurement and Design Phase:

    ⊕ Selection and evaluation of preferred vendors for transformers, inverters and motors based on factors like:

        • Reliability and service history with references of successful power drive systems similar to your application.
        • Inital cost, equipment including installation. (possibly via Engineering, Procurement & Contracting company(EPC))
        • Efficiency of the power drive system within operation speed range.
        • Projected maintenance costs for:
          • Nearby robust service and support network.
          • 7/24 remote support  for monitoring, diagnostic, and trouble shooting. 
          • Availability of spare parts.
        • Specification conformance

    ⊕ Prepare bid invitations:

        • Issuing invitations for offers from transformer, inverter and motor manufacturers.

    ⊕ Review offers, identify deviations and clarify outstanding issues:

        • Comparison of supplier bids to the project plan, identifying potential deviations.
        • Resolution of open questions and deviations with suppliers regarding the PDS.

    ⊕ Selecting the correct medium voltage drive topology:

        • Choosing the appropriate medium voltage drive configuration most suited for your application.
          • In terms of reliability, efficiency, safety, quality and performance.
          • Wether it is a brown or green field project and the environmental factors.
          • Wether the footprint and flexability of  the layout of the power drive system matters a lot.
          • Wether you need a topology that is motor friendly.
          • Wether you need high dynamic controls.
          • What kind of power flow, restrictions on harmonic distortion, motor cable lenghts, power factor, supply voltage conditions,  …
          • ….

    ⊕ Selecting the power drive components:

        • Ensure the input isolation transformer, MV VFD and motor are matched for the application.
        • Harmonics evaluation prior to installation.

    ⊕ Determining the correct environment:

        • Considering the factors when selecting appropriate MV drives such as ambient temperature and potential hazards/dust/condensation etc.

    Testing and Commissioning Phase:

    ⊕ Establish requirements for Factory Acceptance Tests(FAT) plan:

        • Defining necessary testing procedures (test plan) for components before they are shipped.

    ⊕ Witnessed and non-witnessed FATs:

        • Conducting FATs to ensure the equipment meets performance criteria.

    ⊕ Define requirements for Site Acceptance Tests (SAT):

        • Preparing testing procedures to ensure equipment performance once installed on-site.

    ⊕ Perform on-site validation of SATs:

        • Final on-site testing to ensure that the power drive system operates correctly and safely in its final environment according to the SAT requirements.

    ⊕ Final review of all test results:

        • Verification that all results meet requirements and that the PDS system is ready for operation.

    Operational Phase:

    ⊕ Critical operation of machinery:

        • Ensuring the selected and implemented system drives the critical machinery in a reliable, efficient, and safe way.
        • Harmonics evaluation of the actual installation

    ⊕ Advice to establish a maintenance plan to ensure:

        • A continued high level of performance and availability of your VFD system.
        • Restoriation of lost redundancy which is critical for maintaining high availability.
        • Improvement of the Total Cost of Ownership.

    Key takeaway:

    We can equip you with the right questions for your manufacturer candidates and/or solution providers in each phase of the life cycle of your medium voltage power drive system. But even more important is the evaluation of their answers.  We can support your decision-making process by providing expert, independent advice and assistance on AC or even DC-drives, low and medium voltage.

    And finally, about us: Pro-Etic is a private owned company based in Belgium providing services for the industry with strong focus on medium voltage drive applications consulting in every phase of the lifecycle of your mission-critical machine. Our data can be found in the footer of every page of our website. Same applies for our terms & conditions, privacy statement and cookie policy.

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