increasing production efficiency with general purpose drives, westas group

Increasing production efficiencyCase: Westas Group

ABB Drives and Controls

Westas Group, FinlandConveyors

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Customer’s needReliable process control

The sawmill invested in automation upgrade with several variable speed drives for log feeding, log metering and sawline angle metering instead of renewing the whole production line from the mid-1990s.

Customer benefitsImproved production output 5% increase in

production efficiency better profit

Reduced maintenance and costs

Global service with local presence service and spare parts close by

Customer FeedbackManaging Director

“ABB is a well-known supplier and the image of ABB includes reliability and a high standard of operation, which they proved in our case to be true.” – Pekka Kopra

Wall-mounted ABB ACS580 general purpose drives Drives included patented swing choke, built-in EMC filter and intuitive control features

in local language

Technical overview

Source: customer article on ABB Drives & Controls website

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Case Westas Group

May 15, 2009 | Slide 3© ABB Group