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Asbestos Arc Chute Replacement ♻️ Successful completion of one of our latest in house projects, the safe removal and replacement of asbestos arc chutes by our UKATA certified Service Engineers. A total of 39 arc chutes have been retrofitted soon to be delivered back to our client!

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Whipp & Bourne MM74 Service 🛠 The Whipp & Bourne legacy switchgear is still in service all around the world, and SIM Switchgear hold the specialist knowledge and expertise in Service, Spares and Retrofit of this equipment. On a recent site visit, our Field Service Engineers performed maintenance on Whipp & Bourne double pole 4000A MM74 units during a site outage. Service included   - Degreasing, regreasing, and relubricating the mechanisms - Making mechanism adjustments - Replacing main contacts - Conductivity and insulation resistance testing - Inspecting secondary wiring For any support on your electrical assets reach us at info@sim-switchgear.com #SIM #Switchgear

Protection Relay Testing 33kV GIS Switchgear 🧑🏻💻 Our Aberdeen Field Service Engineers undertaking the changing of CTs and completing Protection Relay Testing MICOM relays on Schneider GIS Switchgear at a 33kV Substation.

We are hiring Field Service Engineers! As a Field Service Engineer of SIM Switchgear, your primary role will be to ensure the safe execution of all Service related Projects. Your tasks will be predominately related to Servicing, Upgrades and Life Extension of Switchgear and ancillary equipment, can be varying in nature and to be delivered at the various SIM offices/workshops and at Customers Sites, in the UK, overseas, offshore, and marine based. Apply below 👇

A warm welcome from our partners Vietstar Meiden Corporation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 🇻🇳 A great day visiting their manufacturing facility & factory as well as discussing future projects

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Our Field Service Engineers 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 switchgear Last week our team of Service Engineers completed maintenance and service on air circuit breakers at multiple South East Water sites. This maintenance of equipment is critical in ensuring optimum performance of assets and reduced failure and downtime at site. The SIM Switchgear Service Team completed the following examinations and tests on each ACB;   - Examination of mechanical components - Degreasing, regreasing, and relubrication of mechanisms - Inspection of primary contacts - Testing of insulation resistance and conductivity - Integrated protection testing - Timing tests for circuit breaker closing and opening operations

Is your Asset Switchgear in a safe operating condition? Does it comply with the following published HSE Guidance? Circuit Breaker Testing and Switchgear Maintenance can be carried out to determine if all is within manufacturers tolerances and specifications. A range of testing on circuit breakers can be carried out to determine the overall health of your equipment and facilitate overall asset improvement which include but not limited too, dynamic timing checks, contact resistance, vacuum interrupt integrity and dielectric breakdown to name but a few. Most high voltage (HV) breakers installed today are of the SF6 type (now SF6 Free type), are highly mechanical devices that perform the function to open and close the breaker normal and fault current carrying contacts. Current interrupter design has become more simple and reliable compared with past predecessors but the mechanical operators remain very much the same concept and designs used in previous generations. Most HV breaker failures result from mechanical failures related to the operating mechanism. SIM Switchgear takes an experienced approach to inspection and testing of high voltage circuit breakers by performing inspections and tests on the entire breaker system, including mechanical and electrical components. Some of the tests SIM Switchgear will perform on HV breakers include: contact timing and travel analysis to measure contact operating & closing time and speed, close and open coil minimum voltage operations to identify latch lubrication problems, SF6 gas analysis on site to assess gas quality, contact resistance measurement to verify resistance is within recommended range, power factor and capacitance measurements to test grading capacitors and breaker insulation components, measurement of mechanical component performance such as close and trip dampers, and measurement of arcing contact length via dynamic contact resistance. You will find this information and the guidance published in the HSE documents to assist with answering the question of Is your Switchgear Safe to Operate. Do not hesitate to contact SIM Switchgear for assistance and guidance at info@sim-switchgear.com

Safety of inspections is paramount to us and our team. We partner and utilise viewsafe as our preferred product for thermal inspection, partial discharge monitoring of electrical switchgear. For information on how viewsafe can provide protection to your electrical infrastructure get in touch with us at www.sim-switchgear.com