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IEEE-PES Madras Chapter (India) - Region 10 East
Mr.G.V.Rao, Vice Chairman, IEEE Madras Chapter along with a team of members visited M/s. Indo Tech Transformers Limited situated at Sidco Industrial Estate, Thirumazhisai on the outskirts of Chennai on Dec.5, 2002. They went around the factory and saw the complete manufacturing facilities. They met Mr.P.S.Jagdish, Executive Director, Mr.M.Subramoney, Vice President (Operations) and Mr.T.V.Joseph, General Manager (CQA) and discussed with them at the works. M/s.
Indo Tech Transformers Limited has established a state of the art factory
at Thirumazhisai in 1995. M/s.
Indo Tech Transformers Limited is also one of the leading manufacture of
high voltage transformers in South India.
Their manufacturing capacity is upto 100 MVA, 220 KV Class. The
company has a modern winding shop
with machines that can take upto 5 tonnes.
The shop is fully equipped to handle winding of transformers upto
100 MVA, 220 KV class. The
company has also got other facilities such as over head crane for handling
materials. Ovens for
processing coils and transformers and
Vacuum oven for final drying of transformers.
The company, is also having a modern insulation shop which will cut
the insulations to the required size and shape.
The company is fully equipped with tools and tackles to
continuously carry on the manufacturing activities. The
company has got modern Oil
Filtering Unit which will filter oil and store it on separate
tanks under Vacuum conditions.
The oil pipe lines are running throughout the factory and hence
wherever oil filling is
necessary, the same can be tapped from the pipe line. The company has also
got a centralised compressor unit and compressed air pipe lines are
running through out the factory which are utilized for pneumatic tools. During
their visit they saw various high voltage transformers in different
stages of manufacture. The
company’s Medium Power Bay manufacturing upto 5 MVA 33KV class
transformers, was also busy with jobs at different stages.
The important jobs on the shop floor were:
The
company has two Test Laboratories.
The Medium Test Laboratory is equipped to test upto 5 MVA 33KV
class including the temperature rise test.
The larger power laboratory has state of the art equipments to test
upto 100 MVA 220KV Class transformers.
The major equipments are 300 KV testing transformer, 8000 KVAR
Capacitor Banks, loading transformer and 125 Cycles high frequency
generator set. The laboratory
also has high precision meters, CTs, PTs etc. to carry out routine
measurement of all transformers. The
laboratory has a Partial Discharge Meter for measuring Partial
Discharge of high voltage transformers. The team members after visiting the factory, discussed with the officials of Indo Tech Transformers Limited regarding the manufacturing process, testing and other manufacture related activities. Page updated 12/06/02 . Owner = Suresh C Pal |