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Manufacturer of modernindustrial electronics

Plum has over 25 years experience in the design and manufacture of innovative electronic devices and specialised software.

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The company supplies the market each year with thousands of items of modern solutions to the strategic sectors of the economy:

GAS, HEATING, WATER AND VENTILATION.

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Our high production and organisational standards are confirmed by the fact that we are one of few Polish industrial electronics manufacturers oper-ating with the Integrated Quality Management System ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001.

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From the beginning, creates high-quality solutions based on three pillars - energy efficiency imprvoment, technologies improvement and proven teams of employees. Equipment manufactured at Plum is examined both at the design stage and during production in the company's own laboratories: Accredited Laboratory, Laboratory of Heating (only heating industry sector), Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory, Laboratory for Fire Ventilation (only the ventilation). In terms of accreditation a Plum company issues a calibration certificate that is recognized in Poland and abroad.

Plum’s devices are tested i.a. for:• calibration of instruments for measuring temperature,

pressure, electricity and moisture• resistance to electrostatic discharge - ESD • resistance to fast transients, bundles of electrical dis-

turbances BURST• immunity to electromagnetic field of radio frequency• immunity to conducted disturbances• surge immunity - SURGE• variable resistance and pulsed magnetic field• emissivity

Individual departments are located on an area of over 4 601 sq m. They are equipped with modern equipment according to the latest international trends. The confirmation of high quality, production and organisational standards is that Plum, as one of few Polish manufacturers of industrial electronics, has implemented an Integrated Quality Management System (ISO 9001), Occupational Health and Safety (BS OHSAS 18001) and Environmental Management System (ISO14001), certified by BSI (the British Standards Institution).

Strength of the dynamic development of the company is the experienced team of nearly 200 highly skilled professionals (including over fifty engineers and specialists in the fields of: electronics, mechanics, computer science). In the last three years, the company has employed nearly 100 people in order to increase its project potential and production.

Solutions offered by our company are safe, cost effective and meet all required standards, which is confirmed by relevant certificates of Polish and European rank. Our partners will benefit greatly from the possibility to customize our products. Thus not only a regulator is being introduced on the market, but also devices such as ecoSTER, with individual business logo on it. It is yet another tool to strengthen the market existence - presence of brands owned by our partners.

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Since progress is a necessary condition for development in each industry, at Plum we create and deliver modern, technically advanced and safe devices for many industries. The activity of Research and Development Department, as well as the Construction Department enables dynamic progress in design of innovative applications. In the Development Department we develop a wide variety of innovative and advanced devices. Assuming that customers success is also our success we co-operate closely with them and our solutions respond to our customers’ needs.

Our devices, due to the analysis of customers needs, are typified by easy operation, modern design and high tech-nological advancement. Our highly qualified team of expert - engineers specialising in electronics, mechanics and IT are involved in the process of device design and development. Due to experience, knowledge and the up to-date techni-cal base, our experts can provide services and engineering support of the highest level. Engineers, equipped with pro-fessional tools and software such as Protel and CAD, ensure optimalisation of electronic constructions.

Plum Production Department ensures the highest standards of organisation associated with the production of advanced electronic devices.

In order to ensure the highest quality, components and parts are bought from reputable Polish and European suppliers. The various stages of production are constantly supervised and coordinated by on-line computer control system (Enterprise Resource Planning). Thus each product coming to and leaving the production line is the optimal combination of quality, reliability and stability. The manufacturing division has a modern technological line for assembly and soldering.

Technology used here operates in a similar way to that of the mobile phone manufacturers. The process begins with the application of solder paste with the printer with automatic centering of the lens. Then the assembly of components is prepared automatically on the Swiss Essemtec machine with a capacity of 5 000 parts per hour. For precise mounting of SMD components we use the Cognex laser alignment vision system.

This enables high density and high miniaturization of components. The reflow process is performed in a multizone furnace FlowStar SEHO, which provides precise adjustment and maintenance of the soldering profile. The production technology in Plum is typified by great flexibility, the wide possibilities of rapid line set-up for the production of other devices. The end result of the automatic installation is not only high quality products, but also the possibility of fast implementation of various orders in a short time.

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Accredited measurement laboratory

Testing and calibration

Method of protection against ESD

Measurement devices manufactured by Plum must meet high metrologic requirements. Such high measurement accuracy is ensured by the on-site Laboratory in which the devices are tested as well as by the on-site Verification Point for sclaes which check the conformity of appliances with the provisions of legal metrology. The Laboratory is equipped with test pieces and measurement devices of the highest accuracy, which enable the achievement of high measuring capacity. Its competences are confirmed by an accreditation number. AP 074, by the Polish Centre for Accreditation.

Assembled and running devices are tested in the Production Laboratory where they pass the tests in climate and temperature chambers. The whole process is computer controlled. All products are subject to automatic and temperature tests, which guarantee detection of all defects resulting from the production process and contributes to still greater reliability of devices.

Storage and production take place in areas equipped with specialised equipment and protection against ESD. This ensures the reduction of negative electrostatic impact on the component’s life. This type of protection is essential to ensure the reliability of the final product. In Plum effective electrostatic countermeasures are applied, such as special flooring, shelving, packaging equipment, personal protective equipment - clothing, shoes, gloves.

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The Heating Technology Laboratory is one of the 5 Labora-tories run by Plum Ltd; it benefits from vast experience and world class research equipment and thus it gives its partners a significant competetive advantage on the market. The basic idea behind activities of the Laboratory is to enable boiler and fireplace manufacturers test their products with the precisely tailored algorithms of Plum regulators – thus ensuring optimalisation of combustion processes.

The Plum ccoperation system enables the testing of algo-rithms and other tests with Plum partner devices and parallel adjustments introduced to automation devices. Such an approach guarantees individual selection of the algorithm and the function to any given heating device. A significant benefit arising from cooperation is the possibility to modify software in process, via Internet, by commercial partner of the Plum Company – using the ecoLink module. It creates tremendous opportunities during the development of new products. The infrastructure of the Laboratory consists of 5 research work stations with equipment including SIEMENS combustion fumes analyser, professional Nova 2000 analys-ers manufactured by German company MRU, hydraulic systems of various type (with buffers and mixing valves). The Laboratory enables:

• testingofregulators

• accurate adjustments of regulators and heatingdevices manufactured by our partners, ensuring very high reliability level

• on-lineanalysisofboilersandfireplacesduringtest-

ing process of the automation devices with selection of most up-to-date control algorithms for boilers and fireplaces manufactured by our partners

• cutting down service costs (due to the regulatorfunction – so called ecoLink) – due to the possibility of on-line modification and software updates

The Heat Technology Laboratory cooperates with the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering at the Technical University of Warsaw designing modern algorithms for operation of regulators. Mutual exchange of knowledge and experience between the Laboratory and personnel of the University results in common research projects for the developement of new regulators.

Fire place lab: we carry out works consisting in precise adjustment of automation parameters to the selected fire place technology in the lab where we test Plum partner fire places. The results of this process include burning process optimisation, automation and fire place compatible interfacing and a number of interesting and useful functionalities available to the user.

LaboratoryOf Heating Technology – cooperation with Plum partners

ecoSOL 150 controller is a modern electronic differential temperature control-ler that is used to conduct heat from solar collectors to the domestic hot water tank.

The main task of the controller is to control the solar circuit sets according to data obtained from temperature sensors, to enable recovery of most of the energy from the collector.

ecoSOL 150

Controller for solar systems

ecoSOL 150

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+ Supports 2 temperature sensors PT 1000+ Pump control+ Easy to use

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ecoSOL 150

ecoSOL 200 controller (available in CLASSIC and BASIC versions) is one of a new generation of electronic devices, the function of which is to control the solar circuit sets according to the data obtained from the temperature sen-sors, so it is possible to recover most of the energy from the collector.

The controller supports 11 different solar schemes. Connects up to 4 PT1000 sensors and two pumps - circulation and heating, or three-way valve. It has a smooth regulation of the circulation pumps.

The energy yield of heat produced is shown. This enables you to monitor en-ergy saved. An additional benefit from use of the controller is its attractive, modern design and intuitive operation. Features include: the graphic display, backlit polycarbonate and glass handling system (encoder) TOUCH & PLAY, transparent icons system (rotating menu). ecoSOL 200 enables the customer to take full advantage of solar systems, and thus give the user a high quality, safety and low cost of ownership.

ecoSOL 200

Controller for solar systems

ecoSOL 200

Benefits:+ Graph Visualization of recovered energy from the collector of the last days+ Heat yield calculation+ Choice of up to 11 solar schemes+ Time zones for heater+ Intuitive and easy to use

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Controller works with Internet-based operation system. Two-way communica-tion enables setting parameters and obtaining necessary information about work of the device. The controller supports 11 different solar schemes.

Connects up to 4 PT1000 sensors and two pumps - circulation and heating, or three-way valve. It has a smooth regulation the circulation pumps. The energy yield of heat produced is shown.

This enables you to monitor energy saved. An additional benefit from the use of the controller is its attractive, modern design and intuitive operation. Fea-tures include: the graphic display, backlit polycarbonate and glass handling system (encoder) TOUCH & PLAY, transparent icons system (rotating menu). ecoSOL 300 enables the customer to take full advantage of solar systems, and thus give the user high quality, safety and low cost of ownership.

ecoSOL 300

Controller for solar systems

ecoSOL 300

Benefits:+ Graph Visualization of recovered energy from the collector of the last days+ Heat yield calculation+ Choice of up to 11 solar schemes+ Time zones for heater+ Intuitive and easy to use

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It is an advanced communication module, facilitates remote control of oper-ationof the boiler, via PC computer with Internet access.

User is given possibility to control all the parameters: temperature adjust-ments,pumps and mixers operation and monitoring of current regulator oper-ation states.

Clear visualization of the boiler operation history, presented in a form of charts is another crucial benefit for a user.

ecoNET 300

Internet module for ecoSOL 300 acting as a service system – online handling and management

ecoNET 300

Benefits:+ Remote control over the boiler parameters via the Internet+ Intuitive software controlling the ecoNET module+ Registry of parameters crucial for regulator operation

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Plum Ltd16-001 Kleosin, Ignatki 27a.phone. +(48) 85 749 70 00fax:+(48) 85 749 70 14e-mail: plum@plum.pl

www.plumelectronics.eu

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