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Return on Investment…

Often the price of a pump relative to the process advantage gain is insignificant; fortunately, this allows manufacturers such as us to claim dramatic payback on our products in months, rather than years!

Another form of return on investment is service reliability. This is often a more difficult figure to calculate. Usually, it is not until after the event that actual service intervals, downtime and maintenance costs can be recorded and the true value for money recorded.

Picking a slower, bigger, more industrial design pump, most manufacturers would agree, generally increases your pump’s and plant’s service life; however, your capital cost could be 15%, 30%, or 50% greater, depending on the range of equipment you’re considering.

We’re seeing a trend in the market for end users to be installing plant that remains the responsibility of the contractor to operate and maintain!

Whole life costs are now taking on a real meaning. Our engineers have been talking with these contractors about the details of their plants, and discussing features of the selected pumps that would predictably increase service life.

It’s becoming starkly obvious that servicing is expensive. Let’s face it, many manufacturing companies rely on their spares and service work to remain profitable.

Therefore, initial upgrade of the pump - whilst previously considered an exercise in over-engineering - is actually becoming the competitive choice for the end user or the build and operate contractor.

This methodology could relate to our RM2000 pump range or the PowerFlow Pump.

For example the PowerFlow pump is used very successfully on high viscosity products, from resins to sausage meats. Uniquely, it features a “Metal Stator”; therefore, naturally, it’s more expensive to manufacture as compared with an elastomer Stator. It’s approximately twice the price of a standard pump. However, service intervals can be extended by a factor of 10 times and it’s considered a winner by the hundreds of users who would rather keep their operating success a secret!

Please call to discuss your plant’s operations and the pump upgrades that could save you thousands in maintenance costs.

Application Example- Pumps replace Conveyors…
Conveyors have traditionally been used for the transfer of semi-dry and high density solids.

Here is a list of the chief pumping advantages that end users are benefiting from:-

• Pumps can transfer cake in pipes: vertical lift sections replace lengthy and site-intrusive conveyor runs that are required due to maximum allowed conveyor incline
• Transferring product within a pipe is much cleaner: ordure and spillage are avoided
• Conveyor downtime and maintenance costs are eliminated

The chief area that pump manufactures have focused their design attention on is the ability to feed products reliably, ranging from municipal sludge of 50% solids plus, to mud pumping within the oil industry.

Whilst pump designs and build have been capable of reliably pumping high solids with abrasive for many decades, ensuring these very high viscosity products are fed into the pump reliably is still relatively new.

Robbins & Myers Moyno has, arguably, developed one of the most heavy duty solutions: the versatile RM200 HS system.

For more information please view:
Robbins & Myers Newsletter June 2008, “Your guide to pump suction aids - Twin screw feeders, open throat pumps with auger conrods.”

Please also copy and paste into your browser- www.impeller.net/magazine/news_en/doc3619x.asp
www.moyno.com/2000hs.html

Order now, pay later…
What are the critical Robbins & Myers Moyno spares required for your plant’s operation?

You can ensure they are available for immediate despatch to your site, even for components that would be considered special to your individual pump’s build.

We will hold in stock those spares identified as critical to you. These parts will be reserved exclusively for you, and will always be available for immediate dispatch.

How does it work?

• Call us to help you identify your critical spares requirements
• Order now; pay later, as and when spares components are dispatched to you
• Your spares will be held in stock for an agreed period, normally 12 months, after which we will dispatch to you and invoice

This system is helping many of our pump users around the world. Budgeting for spares is known and fixed, and plant downtime is being kept to an absolute minimum.

Please do not hesitate to enquire for a review of your spares requirements.

Very best regards

David Johnson
Sales Manager

Just call +44 (0)23 8076 0000 or email rmsales@robn.com