Low Voltage Systems

While the majority of engineering and manufacturing is executed out of the Moorebank factory in NSW, ABB low voltage businesses around the world provide additional engineering and manufacturing capacity in the event of very large projects or multiple simultaneous projects.
Together with other ABB businesses and through alliances with engineering companies, the low voltage systems business also offers customers “E- packages” (Electrification Packages) of switchgear and distribution solutions fully integrated and tested in “Powerhouses” (transportable boildings). It even exports projects, typically as E-Packages to places such as Africa, the Middle East, Russia and Asia.
The team has a powerful balance of experience and youth across multiple disciplines. With over 20 electrical engineers, technically competent sales engineers, experienced project managers and supporting product managers, its ability to confidently engineer and deliver electrical solutions is unmatched in Australia.
Once a project is finished and delivered, the dedicated and experienced service team continue to support clients with commissioning, testing, planned maintenance, spare parts, switchgear extensions fault finding and other services.

CASE STUDY
ABB supplies almost $30 million of equipment for the Woodside LNG Train 5 project
Woodside, Australia’s largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company, awarded ABB almost $30 million in contracts to supply equipment to the next phase of Woodside’s LNG expansion project.
During the Train 4 project, the ABB team impressed with their experience and expertise and ability to work closely with Woodside’s engineering, procurement and construction management contractor, Foster Wheeler Worley Parsons.
For the Train 5 project, ABB will supply 415V switchgear and tie ins, power and distribution transformers, a packaged substation, Is-limiters, 6.6kV switchgear and tie ins, 33kV switchgear, analysers houses and LCI compressor drives.
The Woodside-operated North West Shelf Venture is building the fifth LNG processing train on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in Western Australia. Once complete, the fifth train will boost total production capacity of the plant to 16.3 million tonnes a year and take Woodside’s investment in North West Shelf Venture facilities to more than $16 billion.

Did you know?
Five to ten percent of all motors burn up during plant start-up due to insufficient thermal protection. This unbudgeted cost typically goes unnoticed. By utilising Intelligent Motor Control Centres, one customer reduced this loss to zero.

Innovation
ABB’s Low Voltage Systems and Medium Voltage Products businesses have a dedicated “E-Packaging Team”. This group of estimators, designers and project managers are experienced in designing, preparing, managing, delivering, installing and servicing large packaged projects in Australia and around the world.
The new ABB MNSiS intelligent switchgear solution is a paradigm shift in low voltage switchgear globally. MNSiS recognises that low voltage switchgear is now the domain of both Control system and Electrical engineers and accommodates both.
For the control systems operator they can access all the critical control functionality without being exposed to the Low Voltage area of the switchgear. From an electrical perspective the separation of the control functionality from the switchgear modules allows greater standardisation and a far more compact solution. Operationally the system is significantly safer to operate, requires fewer spares, has a simple HMI and can be operated remotely.
MNSiS is an integrated system and offers a wealth of data collection capabilities. This data opens up exciting new opportunities for condition based maintenance, maximising availability and minimising unnecessary maintenance costs.

Did you know?
ABB’s new MNSiS switchgear has taken operator safety to a new level by separating control and power.