Feature 8 | TURBOCHARGER REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE ABB extends service network
ABB Turbocharging based in Baden, Switzerland, has been actively developing both service locations and aſter sales service packages in the past year.
- over 190,000 units are currently in the field – by expanding its global network of service stations, bringing the total to 110 worldwide. ABB’s network of service stations has recently been augmented by new facilities in Cagua, Venezuela; Barcelona, Spain; Naples, Italy; Douala, Cameroon; Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; Haifa, Israel; Qingdao, China; and Limassol, Cyprus. In addition, a new training centre for ABB service technicians has been opened at the group’s Service Centre in Baden. Several new service offerings have
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also been launched in the past year by ABB Turbocharging and these include its CPEX part exchange scheme, the MMA managed maintenance program and a new turbine blade retrofit package. At the same time, the company reports that its longer established OPAC Operation Performance Package is gaining increasing acceptance from year to year. ABB Turbocharging reports an
‘excellent’ reception for the CPEX part exchange programme, which aims to reduce service downtime and costs through speeding up the replacement of parts for turbochargers on diesel and gas engines. Te CPEX programme involves the exchange of certain used parts from ABB turbochargers against original ABB reconditioned parts. The programme presently covers:
shaſts and bearing casings for the TPS turbocharger sizes TPS 48, TPS 52 and TPS 57 installed on specific engines; turbine blades for TPL turbochargers; turbine blades, bearings and pumps for VTR and VTC turbochargers and VTG modules for TPS and TPL turbochargers. More parts will be added to the CPEX program in the foreseeable future. Service customers can take advantage
of this option provided that the parts presented in exchange for ABB reconditioned parts are eligible for
46 Refurbishment of parts for the CPEX customer part exchange program.
BB Turbocharging is responding to strong growth in the world population of its turbochargers
ABB is now offering hard tip blades as a retrofit option for its turbochargers.
the CPEX programme. For example, a TPS shaſt being exchanged for a CPEX shaft must have run less than half the
number of hours recommended by the ABB Turbocharger SIKO Safety Design Concept before a replacement becomes
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