Elmo Rietschle the German daughter of Gardner Denver is launching an impressive addition to its existing product range at this year’s HANNOVER MESSE on Stand B60 in Hall 26. A new XD range for heavy duty applications has been added to the claw, rotary vane and screw technologies and the IV range will be launched for low ultimate vacuum models for the rotary vane and screw vacuum pumps. The vacuum and pressure specialists for industrial processes have acquired an excellent reputation in many decades of successful business dealings with customers around the world from many industries – and they have seen an ever increasing demand for more complex and diversified solutions. One solution for all needs? The engineers in Schopfheim and Bad Neustadt believe that details count and that one product for all no

Cromemco has installed in December 2016 a new sophisticated Industry 4.0 and IOT compliant central vacuum system, at the Bic facilities in Anoixi, Greece. The full automated redundant system, not only controls the Elmo Rietschle vacuum pumps, but is also logging every significant process value, relevant to the vacuum supply and energy consumption at each suction point. The system is also controlling the ventilation and the cooling system of the pump room and notifies via e-mail whenever it’s necessary. The system has been developed to replace 30 standalone oil lubricated vacuum pumps 200 m3/h each. A very stable operation saves 65% energy through the innovative energy efficiency and is additionally reducing maintenance costs. The cooling system energy gain is greater than 93%. The five Elmo Rietschle, claw vacuum pumps C-VLR 1000 operate between 24-60HZ with an ultimate vacuum up to 200 mbar abs. The System is ready to support one more pump. The automation is based on the Siemens Simatic PLC S7-1500. Five Siemens Sinamics G120 22 kW Inverters control the pumps via PID algorithm. The design and the documentation are accomplished with EPLAN Electric P8. Furthermore, the whole system is documented in 2D and 3D drawings to reduce manufacturing errors and make troubleshooting easier. A very sophisticated detailed SCADA System, based on Siemens WinCC Professional, allows operators and engineers to monitor and control the system. A WEB Server, build by Cromemco, is serving on any computer, Tablet or Smart Phone, several Web SCADA pages