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SPH select Harland Simon for CT50 reelstand control replacement
Friday 19. February 2010 - Harland Simon announces the award of a contract by Singapore Press Holdings for the supply of new control systems for their Goss CT50 reelstands. The project covers the supply and installation of new drives and controls for the 40 CT50 reelstands on four Goss Colorliner presses with systems based upon industry standard, off the shelf components which will eliminate obsolete proprietary systems. In addition splice and waste performance will be improved and maintenance time will be reduced.
As always SPH completed an exhaustive selection process and the decision was clinched as a result of Harland Simon being the only company to have an established track record of success in control replacement for the CT45/50 range with over 30 units already installed or on order.
Anthony Cheng, SPHs Executive Vice President of Production stated “Harland Simon offered us a solution that best met our requirements and we are satisfied its technical competence, and with its successful track record in the replacement of GOSS reelstand controls.”
The standard Harland Simon solution provides for control of the reel, tension, pasting and sequencing but will be customized to suit the specific needs of SPH including interfaces to both new and legacy press control systems, the roll handling, colour register and outfeed tension systems. Another new feature is the use of full colour HMI touchscreens for comprehensive setting and diagnostic functions. In addition to the control equipment Harland Simon will provide new encoders for the dancer position feedback, spider rotation feedback and belt drive control. In addition all the reelstands will be networked to a centralized maintenance PC for support and diagnostics which is also connected to Harland Simons 24/7 on line support service.
“We are extremely proud to have received such a significant order from such a widely respected organization as SPH and look forward to working together with Anthonys team on this project” added Rob Watson, Harland Simons Sales Director.