Automation Parts

Jaguar Reduces Costs With Compair Compressors Jaguar has worked with Compair to upgrade the compressed air networks at its West Midlands-based plants, using an ongoing programme of energy audits to reduce air power consumption. The company said air power consumption was reduced by 26 per cent per annum with a maximum two years' payback at each site. In order to calculate the energy savings that could be achieved with a new compressed air system, Compair first carried out a simple air audit on the existing units. A data-logging device was fitted to each machine to analyse a number of parameters including air use, pressures and energy consumption. With readings taken every second over a two-week period, Compair engineers were able to build an accurate overview of Jaguar's compressed air requirements and could demonstrate a number of cost savings that could be made by upgrading to newer models. As a result, Jaguar chose to upgrade the network to two fixed-speed and one variabl...

C And L Supplies Boge Compressors To NCLA The National Centre For Laser Applications (NCLA) has installed two Boge S15 screw compressors and a trinity controller. The NCLA develops laser systems which are available to the manufacturing industry and used in the development of products and processes. After reviewing NCLA's air requirements, C and L Industrial recommended the company replaced its Boge CD7 with two Boge S15 screw compressors, alongside a trinity controller. The S15 forms part of the Boge S-series screw-compressor product range. The Boge trinity is a modern transducer operated changeover switch designed to control up to three compressors. The system automatically sets itself to optimise pressure cascading - only the maximum pressure (Pmax) and the minimum pressure (Pmin) need to be entered into the controller. Trinity takes control of a compressed-air system and ensures that only the compressed air required at any one time is produced. This reduces operating costs...