New actuator enables backwards compatibility
Lifetime Management, the service and maintenance program from this company, has been enhanced by the launch of IQ3 SET (photo), offering backwards compatibility to the 1960s. Lifetime Management helps users manage the risk associated with ageing assets. It includes tiered maintenance options, upgrade services, planned shutdown support and life cycle services. The backwards compatibility offered by the IQ3 SET is appropriate for legacy actuators on sites that have non-integral starters (known as SyncroSET). The IQ3 SET feature facilitates obsolescence management and future-proofs plants without affecting the plant infrastructure. It is a bridge between legacy products (stretching back to this company’s A-Range actuators) and investment in the latest actuation technology. It is compatible with existing site cabling and control systems, so there is no need for new cabling and associated costs. There is minimal downtime during upgrades. The IQ3 SET option works with and supports the features of older versions, with seamless integration into existing plant architecture and no need to change existing cables or control systems. IQ3 SET allows access to the many benefits an IQ3 brings to modern plant and network design, operation and maintenance, ensures continuous reliability, connectivity and performance, and offers advanced IQ3 functionality. Inserting IQ3 technology into a legacy system also brings the benefits of improved connectivity and service support through the wider Lifetime Management program. — Rotork Plc., Bath, U.K.