2015 EMC Distributor of the year!

After remaining a distributor of Roxburgh EMC products for over three years, CP Automation, a supplier and repair specialist of industrial equipment, is now being awarded for their dedication to the Roxburgh EMC brand.

(L-R) Louise Underwood, Accountant at CP Automation, Tom Downing, Roxburgh EMC Product Manager and Gary Cook, Internal Sales Engineer at CP Automation. 

Tom Downing, Product Manager of Roxburgh EMC commented; “CP Automation stocks an extensive range of our industrial filters and they have gone from strength to strength since the beginning of our partnership. Their growth has enabled Roxburgh EMC to enter new markets and we presented this award to them in recognition of their commitment and effort. We have enjoyed working with CP Automation and hope to see continued success in the future.”

CP Automation stocks over 40 of Roxburgh EMC’s industrial filter lines, including the popular three phase filters, three phase and neutral products, plus, high current single-phase ranges. The team also comprises skilled engineers, who can offer technical advice that proves extremely valuable to customers.

"Since our partnership with Roxburgh EMC, we have been able to help our customers by solving their EMC issues, which makes it a great fit to CP Automation's portfolio," explains John Mitchell, Global Business Development Manager of CP Automation.

CP Automation specialises in universal peripheral equipment for variable speed drives as a core part of its offering to include dynamic braking resistors, external brake choppers, regenerative units, harmonic filters - both passive and active - line, motor, sine wave chokes and motors.

"Our decision to stock from 1A to 820Amps has given our customers the ability to win projects when they have been let down by their current suppliers due to lead-time issues,” continues Mitchell. “We work closely with OEMs in helping them design the right product into their application. Roxburgh EMC's manufacturing ability to design custom filters with brand labelling, as well as responding to time pressures, has also been key to our customers’ requirements."

Tony Young, Director of CP Automation Ltd, concludes; "The synergy to market between aspects of both businesses has resulted in this success utilising the key people in sales, marketing, engineering, procurement and manufacturing. We look forward to continuing the growth we have seen into the future."

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Automation supply prioritises trust!

Customers of the automation supply and maintenance firm, CP Automation, can now enjoy a whole host of new features and information at their fingertips thanks to the launch of its new website. Their new website, not only provides detailed product information but also allows the customer to buy there and then with a heavy emphasis on trustworthy supply. 

While it's not difficult to buy a motor, inverter or PLC online, trustworthy online purchasing is a rarity. A lot of products for sale on the internet seem to come from the grey market, without a safety certificate or any guarantee of reliability. 

CP Automation specialises in the sale, repair and maintenance of industrial electronic boards, PLC's, AC drives, resistors, DC drives and inverters.

The product range extends from simple general purpose drives to mission critical systems requiring uncompromising control, enhanced intelligence, and high-speed communications capability.

The new site provides more detailed information on the products CP Automation integrates, with individual downloadable product spec sheets. The company's brochures are segregated into product types and are also downloadable from the site.

After the customer has found the information they need to make a buying decision, they then have the option of making a purchase from the online shop. CP Automation's online buying function stands out in the automation maintenance and supply industry, in which ecommerce is a rarity.   

"The new website provides an abundance of relevant information and allows customers to ask specific questions with our new feedback feature," explained Tony Young, a director of CP Automation. 

"Our new products are highlighted on the home page and links to our blog keep visitors up to date with new developments. I think it's interesting that even though many automation components have almost become commodities, particularly in the replacement market, very few businesses have invested in e-commerce.

"The consumer  and more advanced B2B markets are already developing and using mCommerce (mobile commerce) solutions and yet few people in engineering are thinking on that level yet. 

"It's ironic that the automation sector has countless mobile monitoring and bring-your-own-device apps, for everything from simple inverter or PLC communications all the way to SCADA and DCS management, and yet it's still difficult to buy a trustworthy motor online."

The new website comes just months after the company opened a branch in South Africa after receiving a record number of inquiries coming from the Sub Saharan continent. 

Harmonics mitigation!

CP Automation has a new whitepaper that addresses a lack of industry awareness of different methods of harmonic mitigation. It is designed to educate engineers on the most appropriate solutions to mitigate the damage caused by harmonic currents and utility level voltage distortion.

Authored by Jonas Persson, product manager at Comsys AB, Comparing harmonics mitigation techniques (pdf) highlights the challenges facing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in tackling the growing problem of harmonic currents. For many years this has held the industry back; the fact that engineers struggle to identify the best solutions for their needs due to a lack of information. The overall context is to reduce harmonic loading in a drive system.

The whitepaper details the four main mitigation techniques and their associated technologies. Covering series passive, series active, shunt passive and shunt active solutions, it presents in-depth case studies of real life implementations of each as well as theoretical worked examples explaining the benefits and drawbacks.

Knowing the different types of mitigation technique to employ is essential. There are three variations of the series-passive solution alone, line reactors, series harmonic filters and multi-phase, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Choosing one over another is a decision that must be made from an informed perspective.

“Without both breadth and depth of knowledge, it is possible that the most efficient method of harmonic mitigation is being overlooked,” says John Mitchell, business development manager at CP Automation. “On top of that, there are numerous other challenges faced by engineers caused by the rise of non-linear loads, such as extra stresses on outdated equipment.”

“We hope this whitepaper will go some way to addressing the lack of information issue, which in turn will go some way to reducing the amount of harmonics related problems the wider engineering community encounters in electrical industry applications.”