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- Achieve More Efficient Use of Labor and Energy With Power Quality Monitoring
- To meet changing production demands, the Viasystems facility in South Shields frequently needed to move equipment from one area of the factory to another. Viasystems selected Merlin Gerin PowerLogic power quality monitoring system. The PowerLogic system immediately shows whether the electricity supply can meet the new power demands such moves...
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- Square D solves a Roller Coaster's Voltage Sag Problem
- Paramount King's Island amusement park was the first parks in the world to install a roller coaster which uses a linear induction motor (LIM) to electro-magnetically accelerate its vehicles. The ride launches a vehicle every other minute creating a voltage sag. The voltage sags created with each launch on the...
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- Mexico's National Prize for Conservation of Electric Power
- The Sensors and Controls (S&C) Facility of Texas Instruments Mexico (TI-Mexico) in Aguascalientes, is a prime example. TI-Mexico discovered that conserving electrical power provides an excellent method of improving efficiency. Schneider Electric contributed by providing Square D POWERLOGIC Monitoring System product line. The POWERLOGIC products enabled the study and analysis...
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- AccuSine Reduces Harmonic Current Distortion at a Waste Water Treatment Plant
- A wastewater treatment plant installed variable frequency drives (VFDs) to improve control of raw sewage pumps and to decrease operating costs through variable speed operation. A variety of unexpected problems occurred, including interference with the computer management system. Installation of an AccuSine Power Correction System eliminated the problem completely. Depending...
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- Pumping Profit Back Into the Pipeline
- Based in San Antonio, Texas, Valero offers an extensive network of pipelines for transporting products such as conventional gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and asphalt. The Valero pipeline group decided it was time for a more accurate means of accounting for energy usage. Schneider Electric's Square D team recommended an extensive...
- Case studies
- POWERLOGIC System Is "Vital" for Hospital Operation
- Helen Hayes Hospital's existing generator control system consisted of a complicated manual control system that depended on functioning pilot lights for operation. A POWERLOGIC power monitoring and control system that was installed and tested helps the hospital monitor and test their 1600KW generator. During an outage, the POWERLOGIC system monitors...
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- Paper Mill Avoids Increasing Electrical Infrastructure
- A paper mill customer wanted to buy a new 250KVA winder but found out that there was not enough current capacity available in their switchboards to support the new winder. Mill chose POWERLOGIC. Using a Square D POWERLOGIC System, displacement and true power factor were monitored and logged. The data...
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- Mercedes-Benz Uses Power Management System to Assure Plant Uptime
- When Mercedes-Benz USA International (MBUSI) began building a sophisticated plant to manufacture its M-Class sport utility vehicle, the company was determined to find an equally sophisticated system for monitoring and troubleshooting power quality problems, minimizing downtime, and reducing energy costs. MBUSI installed POWERLOGIC CM-2350 circuit monitors on the mains of...
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- Foresight and an Innovative Power Monitoring System Help Delphi Complex Survive the Northeast's Power Grid Collapse
- The cascading failure of the power grid serving the northeastern United States and southern Canada the previous afternoon had caused wild swings in voltage but little damage beyond shutting down some equipment at the automotive parts manufacturing facility. Square D PowerLogic power monitoring system constantly reports power consumption by equipment...
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- Durham College Cuts Energy Usage While Expanding Facilities
- Ken Bright, energy czar of Durham College in Oshawa, Canada, realized he needed more electrical data in order to manage energy saving projects. The electrical monitoring system would be used to create a baseline with which to gauge his energy savings programs, as well as to prioritize energy savings opportunities....
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- Chemical Manufacturer Controls Expensive Demand Charges
- A chemical-manufacturing customer participates in a Time of Use/Dispatch Power rate schedule with its utility. The customer needed a way to, systematically notify each department to reduce their usage and let them know how much reduction was needed depending on the dispatch level. The chemical manufacturer's POWERLOGIC system consists of...
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- Automotive Parts Manufacturer Cuts Energy Consumption by Monitoring Multiple Utilities
- As a global manufacturer of automotive parts, costs associated with energy usage were significant to the bottom line. With this in mind, the company launched a major program to cut energy expenditures worldwide. Their mission was to reduce total energy consumption. The scope of this project included six manufacturing facilities,...
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- schneider electric Engineers for Profits Through Global Product Development
- Schneider Electric is an international enterprise that invests heavily in research and development to meet customer needs. Despite significant revenue growth in recent years, the company was not achieving the margin growth it desired. Schneider Electric identified a handful of strategic areas that needed to become more efficient if the...
- Case studies 2005-08-01
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- Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc. Introduces a New Cost Effective Case Packer
- This article describes the Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc., end-of-line solutions for case packing and palletizing needs. Schneider has introduced two new entry level case packers. These economical machines were developed using combined resources of Schnieder and AAntec and will be available exclusively through AAntec for the paper industry. Both...
- White papers 2003-07-07
- Global Outsourcing ExecuBrief
- The term Transformational Outsourcing has achieved sufficient currency over the past years to become firmly included in the lexicon of business jargon, but there is confusion around what the concept really is. Transformational Outsourcing is the intelligent mixing of different skills and expertise via an outsourcing relationship for ongoing innovation...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Vehicle-to-Grid Power: Battery, Hybrid, and Fuel Cell Vehicles as Resources for Distributed Electric Power in California
- Electric-drive vehicles can become and important resource for the California electric utility system, with consequent air pollution, system reliability, and economic benefits. We refer to electric power resources from vehicles as "Vehicle to Grid" power (V2G). The economic value of some forms of V2G appear high, more than enough to...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Removing Obstacles to Increased Electric Generation and Natural Gas Supply in the Western United States
- In light of the severe electric energy shortages facing California and other areas of the West in recent months, which are likely to prevail into the foreseeable future, the Commission has examined all of its rate and facility certification authorities in the areas of electric energy, natural gas, hydroelectric and...
- White papers 2001-03-14
- Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology Assessment: Methodology, Analytical Issues, and Interim Results
- This report presents the interim results of the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology Assessment (HEVTA). Hybrid electric vehicles, or HEVs, are vehicles with drivetrains that combine an electric drive (including electric motor and some form of electricity storage) with a refuelable power plant (e.g., an internal combustion...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Security & Vulnerability in Electric Power Systems
- This paper discusses about the security of supply that has been always a key factor in the development of the electric industry. Adequacy, quality of supply, stability, reliability and voltage collapse along with costs have been always carefully considered when planning the future of the electric power system. Since 1982,...
- White papers 2003-10-30
- Checklist for Choosing a Winning Retail Energy Services Provider
- Non-residential customers do have the opportunity to empower themselves to make the best choice in electric power providers. This document presents a checklist, which provides a framework for procurement managers at commercial and industrial companies to use when they are evaluating options among many electric service providers. The article also...
- White papers 2004-01-19
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