Finishing - September-October 2020

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New service could generate income from assets
Manufacturers, building
managers, local councils and
other large energy users could
generate thousands of pounds of
income from their assets thanks
to a new service launched by SSE
Enterprise’s distributed energy
business.
SSE Enhance is a smart grid,
aggregation and trading platform
that allows users to get paid for
helping to balance supply and
demand across their local
network and the electricity
network. The platform will give
customers access to the
Wholesale market, Balancing
Mechanism, and Ancillary
Services.
Companies, public sector
organisations and other
customers can receive
payments/make savings for
reducing their electricity demand
during peak periods, or they can
Three year deal
Leading national supplier of
metalworking and maintenance,
repair and operations (MRO)
products and services, MSC
Industrial Supply Co. (MSC), has
won a three-year contract with
Sulzer, a global leader in fluid
engineering.
The contract, which covers
Sulzer’s 25 UK facilities, sees
MSC appointed as Sulzer’s
preferred supplier for
metalworking and MRO
categories including tooling, PPE
reduce their own peaks through
optimising and automating local
demand against
generation/storage. This will help
customers manage local
constraints, increase security of
supply and optimise asset
performance.
Customers could also be paid
to feed excess electricity from
their own assets – like combined
heat and power units, solar
panels, wind turbines or energy
storage batteries – into the grid
to help cope with spikes in
demand.
Customers can set the
parameters for the platform –
such as the times of day that
they’re prepared to vary their use
of electricity on site – and then
SSE’s market-leading optimisation
software, coupled with its
experienced trading team, will
optimise and/or trade those assets
and general consumables,
alongside the provision of
engineering support.
MSC was awarded the contract
following a competitive tender
involving five suppliers.
Primarily, MSC will devise and
implement vending solutions at
five of Sulzer’s largest UK
manufacturing sites, in
Birmingham, Leeds, Hungerford
and two facilities in Aberdeen. It
will then roll-out bespoke solutions
at Sulzer’s other UK sites.
in response to market events.
Users also receive access to a
round-the-clock support and
monitoring desk.
This new platform forms the
basis of SSE Enterprise’s wider
suite of services, that will enable
them to partner with
Global service
extended
AMETEK Surface Vision has
extended its global service and
technical support for industrial
customers to ensure operations
continue safely and effectively.
The pandemic has seen an
increased demand in critical
industries such as nonwovens,
paper, and food packaging.
AMETEK Surface Vision has
fast-tracked its enhanced plans
for remote support to ensure
maximum productivity and
efficiency in these areas.
Surface Vision’s two surface
inspection and monitoring
product lines, the SmartView
and SmartAdvisor systems, are
in use by customers around the
world, requiring continual
support in a range of industries
including metal, paper, plastics,
and non-wovens.
In particular, the company
has seen an increase in
requests to optimize systems
detection and classification as
industrial mills have changed
their product mixes in response
to the pandemic. Surface Vision
provides a full-featured remote
organisations to support them on
their journey to Net Zero carbon
emissions.
SSE Enterprise’s distributed
energy business is currently
adding specific customers’ assets
to the system so that they can
begin trading their energy.
support platform to facilitate
these requests, allowing mills to
adapt to changing priorities.
With travel restrictions in
place due to the COVID-19
pandemic, Surface Vision
customer support engineers are
working more remotely, which
has allowed the team to be
more responsive as they are
available online for longer.
Yamina Lansari, global
manager of technical services at
AMETEK Surface Vision,
comments, “The pandemic has
prompted us to evaluate how
effectively we deliver services to
our customers.
“Our support service is built
as a partnership with our
customers, who often have
mission-critical systems that
need our help. Our service
engineers are well versed in,
and available for, remote
service delivery. On-site service
is also available to supplement
and augment our remote
offerings where it is businesscritical
and where regulations
allow.”
Finishing – September/October 2020