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Artificial intelligence improves pump efficiency at Melbourne Water treatment plant   By Russell Riding, Melbourne Water Team Leader, Automation Delivery, Service Delivery – Asset Management Services Winneke treatment plant, located in the hills north east of Melbourne, was commissioned in the early 1980s to provide a treated water source to meet the growing needs of […]

Not just motors: the high-reliability TECO MV510 variable speed drive range TECO Electric and Machinery is a market leader, well-known for producing high-quality motors. Unsatisfied with producing only motors, TECO committed to the manufacture of motor drives over 20 years ago. In 2016, the company launched the TECO MV510 range of medium and high voltage drives that

Jail sentence for solar heat pump installation fraud The Brisbane District Court has sentenced a plumber to four and a half years of jail time for fraud and production of false and misleading documents that falsely claimed he had installed more than 400 solar heat pumps. The sentence, handed down on 5 August 2019, is

Temporary pumping restrictions as drought continues In an effort to support drought measures, WaterNSW has announced it will implement  temporary pump restrictions, including the imminent annual water allocation announcement on 1 July 2019. A series of section 324 orders were gazetted by the NSW Government and came into effect on 1 July: NSW Border Rivers—Trade

Monitoring remote pump infrastructure: Better, easier and cheaper using 4G Improvements in 3G and 4G mobile network coverage, advancements in battery technology, low power electronics and cloud services have enabled the development of a new generation of devices that can be used to remotely monitor, control and log data from pumps and associated infrastructure. ETM,