Chauvin Arnoux Group

Qualistar® partners Ford to power Quality

Ford Motor Company Ltd, one of the world’s foremost automotive manufacturers, is the latest to use Chauvin Arnoux’s versatile energy power quality analyser- the Qualistar®.

Ford’s UK engine plants at Dagenham and Bridgend, together with its research centre at Dunton, are already equipped with wall-to-wall monitoring of every parameter imaginable. However, despite all this automation there was still a need for the ‘human’ touch.

Now both Bridgend and Dagenham plants have purchased portable Qualistar® analysers. Engineers can examine and display individual machines in the never ending search to reduce power costs, instead of hundreds of seemingly mindless displays.

An individual machine can be examined in detail to check whether it is working to its most energy efficient design parameters and potential problems can be eliminated before they affect production.

From the data collected within both manufacturing plants, comparisons can be made of each engine line, thus increasing the effectiveness of identifying areas for opportunities to reduce costs in power usage.

Cost savings also include reduced circuit breaker and fuse sizes for future machines, hence reduced cable sizes and, also, the down-sizing of motors, servo drives etc.