Busbars vary greatly and can be very complicated pieces of kit. They can be made of aluminium or copper and are tubular, flat or solid in design. There are different busbars to handle different levels of voltage, specifically extra high, high, medium and low voltage, plus there can be a multitude of other variations involved in their construction.
A great deal of busbars are manufactured to cover a multitude of disciplines and you’ll find quite a few engineering companies that are happy to create those. Who isn’t interested in manufacturing a product with high volume demands?
But what if you need a custom one-off busbar for your electrical power distribution needs? What then?
When we started PRV Engineering in 1986 we concentrated in three main areas: high voltage switchgear, rail product and the oil and gas industries. Early on we realised many companies were using the term “one stop shop” to describe their services but failing to deliver on that statement.
We decided to change that by providing an all encompassing service that would offer as much as possible without losing control of the product in manufacture.
Here’s an example of how we put this into practice.
Our first step into the rail industry was when we were approached by Claverham who had developed a revolutionary set of electromechanical points. Our remit was to examine the design and add value to the product by engineering out cost where possible in order to make it more accessible to the rail industry.
We achieved our customer’s goals with great effect and have now manufactured components consistently for the past few years for thier points systems which have been successfully installed at over 800 locations.
Since then we have added to our rail portfolio by manufacturing for track, track laying and maintenance equipment manufacturers, and more recently we have secured contracts for supplying electrical connections, contacts and other rolling stock product to Transport for London and the Underground Rail Network. Add to this our involvement working on overhead line equipment with customers such as Hawker Siddeley Switchgear plus we enjoy a successful alliance with the Rail Network and many of their suppliers.
Watch Simon Jones MD of PRV Engineering Ltd talk about a railway project where the original project was highly complex, and whilst it was a lovely product it was just too expensive and didn’t fit into the market place because of its complexity. PRV helped commercialise it away from an aerospace style product at a cost of circa £35k down to roughly £3,500 and now that customer has become a long term ‘partner’ with a couple of hundred now out in track.
Contact us at PRV to talk about how we can be your ‘one stop shop’ for railway engineering solutions across the board.
As you’re reading this post you’ve obviously found the new home of the PRV Engineering blog. Welcome!
As a forward thinking engineering company, who pride ourselves on making sure we have the latest cutting edge technology available for our clients, we’ve decided that it was time to engage with our current and future clients in some new and unique ways for our industry.
We will be writing about the industry in general (with some great insights from Simon Jones our MD) but with specific focus on our areas of expertise in manufacturing for an expanse of industries from Food and Chemical Processing, Railway, Aircraft and Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Defence and Construction – in fact all types of Industrial Engineering.
Last but not least you may well of noticed a fresh new look for PRV Engineering by way of our brand new logo which will feature across all of our sites.
We hope you like our fresh new image and our new approaches to communciating with you and we look forwards to engaging with you and hearing your thoughts.
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