RETROFIT

RETROFIT

RETROFIT

Product catalog summary
Introduction
Retrofit solutions are essential for enhancing productivity by improving machine up-time, particularly for W&H machines used in extrusion, printing, and conversion. These solutions address the challenges posed by the obsolescence of electronic and electric components, ensuring long-term use and efficiency.

Specifications and Benefits
W&H retrofit solutions offer several economic benefits, including enhanced productivity through improved machine up-time, long-term economic viability by maintaining high automation standards, minimized risk of production failure, and increased product quality through higher precision and ease of operation.

Procedures and Implementation
The retrofit process involves upgrading the complete drive system of machines, supported by W&H's expert know-how and qualified service. The approach is holistic, covering individual machines and entire factory equipment. Retrofit projects are meticulously planned to avoid production interruptions, often scheduled during vacation shutdowns.

Support and Services
W&H provides comprehensive support, including remote diagnostic troubleshooting capabilities for 24/7 assistance. The Retrofit Service Center at W&H Lengerich headquarters ensures fast intercommunication and short response times, handling the entire retrofit business from engineering to commercial support.

Special Retrofit Solutions
W&H offers specific retrofit kits, such as for obsolete Stromag servo amplifiers, which include advanced digital servo amplifiers, fault readout devices, and customized software packages. These kits ensure high operational reliability and secure future spare parts supply.

Communication and Updates
W&H keeps customers informed through a Retrofit Newsletter, providing detailed information on replacement solutions and advising on implementation during scheduled machine inspections.

Conclusion
W&H's retrofit solutions ensure that machinery remains productive and reliable over the long term, with comprehensive support and tailored solutions for all generations of W&H machines.
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Catalog excerpts

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RETROFIT ENHANCE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY BY IMPROVING MACHINE UP-TIME. EXTRUSION PRINTING CONVERSION

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AGAIN YOUNG AND FIT THANKS TO RETROFIT. Ever shorter life cycles of individual machine components – a problem you need not worry about when it comes to W&H machines. The useful life of W&H machinery and equipment easily surpasses the mark of 20 years and even longer. Longevity and undiminished productivity do, of course, call for qualified maintenance and servicing in order to maintain the function and quality of mechanical components. It is, therefore, imperative that damaged or defective parts can be remanufactured and replaced even after decades of operation. The situation is somewhat different...

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BE SURE YOUR EQUIPMENT IS FIT FOR THE FUTURE. The advantages of retrofit solutions are manifold and, above all, economically attractive. Defective electric or electronic components and systems that are no longer available for replacement are liable to lead to production interruptions and down-time or will jeopardize and decrease the production capacity of your machines. To counteract this risk in good time and ensure undiminished productivity of your equipment also in future, you are free to choose from W&H's extensive program of retrofit solutions offering you a broad range of economic benefits:...

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HOLISTIC APPROACH COMBINED WITH QUALIFIED SUPPORT. The W&H retrofit concept gives you much more than direct economic success. We undertake the upgrading of the complete drive system of your machine, while at the same time offering you our extensive expert know-how as well as qualified service. Our engineers are relentlessly working on holistic solutions not only for the automation of individual machines, but also for the entire equipment of a factory, with every detail aimed at making your investment worthwhile in the long term. Our service consultants will be happy to visit you in order to see...

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FROM SMALL TO BIG – ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. Any retrofit project, however small or big it may be, is meticulously planned to the detail. Regardless of whether it is about the replacement of a PLC, the upgrading of drives, or special web tension control solutions…. W&H will be able to develop a retrofit concept that will best suit your needs. Successive retrofitting and upgrading of all of the color decks of a CI flexo press will give your printing machine an "as new" appearance and performance. Because of detailed scheduling and qualified implementation of such overall upgrade projects, production...

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LET'S TALK … Retrofit Service Center. Software development Order processing Commercial support Offer processing Electrical and mechanical engineering Expertise plus effective intercommunication: The success formula for perfect solutions With direct contacts taking care of your specific needs, the Service / Design staff at W&H Lengerich headquarters guarantees fast intercommunication and short response times. Being integrated into W&H Service, they handle the entire retrofit business, from engineering, development, and implementation to commercial support. They are the central division specializing...

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Active information through our Retrofit Newsletter. Should any component or part become obsolete, our comprehensive data base permits us to identify offhand all of the machines and equipment delivered and incorporating the affected part or module. Should no alternative replacement parts be available in the marketplace, we will work on a retrofit solution and advise the customers concerned in good time. Once an appropriate solution is on hand, our customers will get a W&H Retrofit Newsletter detailing the replacement solution which may then be implemented by our field technicians, for instance,...

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THE COMPREHENSIVE W&H SERVICE PACKAGE. Windmöller & Hölscher KG | Postfach 1660 | 49516 Lengerich | Germany | Tel.: +49 5481 14-0 | Fax: +49 5481 14-2649 | [email protected] | www.wuh-group.com

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.