ABB motor service partner solves motor challenge
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ABB has revealed how one of its motor service partners enabled a Chiswick brewery to return to operation after suffering a motor failure in one of its critical processes.
A 200kW motor in the glycol-based cooling plant of Fuller Smith and Turner’s Griffin brewery failed at midday on the Sunday of a Bank Holiday weekend.
The motor, which was not an ABB product, was used to drive a pump that pumps cooling fluid around the plant’s brewing vessels.
As soon as the motor failed, Jeff Hack-Davies, engineering team leader for the brewery, called Middlesex-based ABB motor service partner EMR Silverthorn.
The brewery uses 15 ABB motors, mainly on the glycol system.
EMR engineers went to the site and, working with Fuller’s engineers, removed the original motor, identified the fault and determined what type of motor they needed to obtain.
They managed to source a suitable 200kW motor with a drip-proof enclosure from ABB’s distribution facility in Menden, Germany.
The motor was loaded onto a lorry to start an overnight journey to London.
Meanwhile, EMR engineers supervised the removal of the failed motor.
The new motor arrived from Germany at 06:00 on the Bank Holiday Monday and by 15:00, Fuller’s engineers, in conjunction with EMR engineers, had it coupled up and working.
The day after, the motor was laser-aligned to guarantee correct balanced operation.
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