{"id":1650,"date":"2017-05-04T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2017-05-04T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:21:55","slug":"navionics-research-french-gerleman-and-rockwell-automationallen-bradley-deliver-emergency-vfd-equipment-services-to-critical-water-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"Navionics Research, French Gerleman, and Rockwell Automation Deliver Emergency VFD Equipment & Services to Critical Water Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jim Mimlitz, NRI<\/p><\/div>\n

For the past 3 years, Navionics Research has partnered with French Gerleman<\/a><\/strong> (St. Louis MO, Quincy IL, Columbia MO, Kansas City MO, Springfield MO, Washington MO) and Rockwell Automation\/Allen Bradley<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to offer premium VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) solutions to our rural water customers.<\/p>\n

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Navionics Research’s Local Rockwell Distribution & Training Partner: French Gerleman, Saint Louis MO<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rockwell Automation\/Allen Bradley Distribution Center – Champaign IL<\/p><\/div>\n

Rockwell Automation\/Allen Bradley PowerFlex-Series Premium VFD’s…<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Through Rockwell’s PowerFlex-series VFD’s<\/strong>, we are pleased to offer 240VAC\/480VAC drives ranging in size from 3 to 3000 HP.<\/p>\n

PowerFlex natively supports the industry-standard Modbus networking protocol<\/strong>, which provides the water utility and its skilled SCADA engineer with advanced monitoring, control, energy minimization, and remote fault reset capabilities.<\/p>\n

These drives are available in wall-mount, panel-mount, and floor-mount configurations. \u00a0Packaged drives are available with features such as line\/load reactors, integral disconnect, breakers\/fuses, bypass contactors, and enclosure ventilation & heating.<\/p>\n

With the backing of a massive PowerFlex\u00a0VFD inventory carried by French Gerleman (St. Louis\/Quincy) and by Rockwell Automation (Champaign), and leveraging Navionics Research’s 22+ years of in-house VFD experience &\u00a0expertise, we are able to deliver\u00a0True 24×7 Emergency Equipment, Service, and Programming<\/strong> in the realm of Anything Related to VFD’s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Massive Local Inventory + Expert Emergency Engineering Personnel = Averted Downtime…<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As an illustrative example, an NRI customer recently experienced catastrophic lightning damage to two 15HP\/240V VFD’s during a storm\u00a0— both the primary and the backup drive — prior to midnight on a Saturday night at a critical pumping station.<\/p>\n

It was all-hands-on-deck<\/strong> for Navionics Research, French Gerleman, and Rockwell Automation. \u00a0Our on-call teams opened the warehouse, picked the two desired 15HP\/240V PowerFlex replacement drives out of inventory, and delivered the drives to the station.<\/p>\n

Before that Sunday was over, Navionics Research had installed & programmed the drives, integrated them into the Telemetry\/Control system, resumed pumping operations, and ensured that a boil order was averted.<\/p>\n

It was an unfortunate event, but due to the effective emergency procedures of all involved, it concluded without the District running out of water.<\/p>\n

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Two Lightning-Damaged Toshiba Variable Frequency Drives at a Critical Pumping Station.<\/p><\/div>\n

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VFD Replacement In-Progress.<\/p><\/div>\n

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PowerFlex VFD Installation, Programming, & SCADA Integration Completed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here at Navionics Research, along with our strategic partners at French Gerleman and Rockwell Automation\/Allen Bradley, we look forward to serving as your resource for both new VFD’s and service\/replacement of existing equipment.\u00a0Give us a call, and we\u2019ll be glad to discuss our capabilities with you in further detail.<\/p>\n

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For the past 3 years, Navionics Research has partnered with French Gerleman (St. Louis MO, Quincy IL, Columbia MO, Kansas City MO, Springfield MO, Washington MO) and Rockwell Automation\/Allen Bradley\u00a0to offer premium VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) solutions to our rural water customers.   Rockwell Automation\/Allen Bradley PowerFlex-Series Premium VFD’s… Through Rockwell’s PowerFlex-series VFD’s, we are …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,20],"tags":[25,56,67,80,108,123,165],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applications","category-communications","category-general","category-vfd","tag-allen-bradley","tag-emergency-service","tag-french-gerleman","tag-inventory","tag-powerflex-vfd","tag-rockwell-automation","tag-vfd-inventory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wireless-telemetry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}