Services move helps SEW EuroDrive gain contracts
26 Nov 2009
Normanton, UK - SEW Eurodrive, a supplier of gear units, motors and drive electronics, has gained a number of major installation projects across the UK following an expansion of its service centre facilities and the introduction of dedicated site teams. The moves, it said, have enabled the company to take on complete onsite installation projects demanding high service levels.
An example of the type of project now being undertaken by the service team is a recently-won contract for replacement drives at a Yorkshire Water sewage treatment site in Rotherham. This extensive site was fitted with 42 aeration drives of various manufacture, age and reliability.
Severe flooding in June 2007 resulted in a significant number of failures of the gearboxes and motors installed on the site. Yorkshire Water, therefore, decided to upgrade the whole site including the aerator drives at a total cost of £4.5 million.
Yorkshire Water selected SEW Eurodrive as its partner for the key modernisation of its Rotherham site - despite strong competition from other major gearbox manufacturers - due to its ability to fulfil all aspects of the project in-house.
The project involved supplying 42 flange-mounted helical gearboxes with a maximum torque rating of 4000Nm, fitted with 11kW, two-speed, energy-efficient motors. New bedplates had to be manufactured so the new drives could utilise the existing aerator fixings and the output couplings had to be re-worked to the new specification. SEW Eurodrive dedicated two service engineers to the site for two months in order to complete the project.
