ABB’s new CPEX programme reduces cost and time

According to ABB Turbocharging, the company’s new CPEX reconditioned part exchange programme not only reduces time and cost but also considers safety and reliability as paramount.

The turbocharger service department reports an excellent reception for this new customer part exchange service, which is designed to reduce both service downtime and costs by providing faster parts replacement for turbochargers on diesel and gas engines.

The CPEX programme was launched in late 2008 and involves the exchange of used ABB parts for original ABB reconditioned parts. It covers shafts and bearing casings for TPS turbocharger sizes TPS 48, TPS 52 and TPS 57 installed on specific engines, also turbine blades for TPL turbochargers, as well as turbine blades, bearings and pumps for VTR and VTC turbochargers and VTG modules for TPS and TPL designs.

Claire Carmona, project manager at ABB Turbocharger Service, says that, “More parts will be added to the CPEX programme in due time. Safety and reliability are paramount in the choice of parts to be reconditioned and the reconditioning process itself.”

Full details of the CPEX programme are available from local ABB Turbocharging service stations but essentially there are three conditions. First, service customers can take advantage of this option, provided that the parts presented in exchange for ABB reconditioned parts are eligible for the CPEX programme.

Second, all safety and reliability criteria must be met. This means, for example, that a TPS shaft being exchanged for a CPEX shaft must have run less than half the number of hours recommended by the ABB Turbocharger SIKO Safety Design Concept before a replacement becomes due.

Third, the part must not have suffered any foreign object or transportation damage and never have had repairs carried out on it previously. Similarly, shafts from TPS turbochargers are only eligible for CPEX exchange once, and CPEX parts subsequently have their running time reset to half the recommended SIKO exchange interval.”

CPEX parts are stocked with an assurance of ABB Turbocharging’s standard spare parts availability to minimise engine downtime. Ms Carmona continues “CPEX reconditioned exchange parts come with the ABB global service warranty. All reconditioning work is done at ABB Turbocharging headquarters in Baden or at selected locations worldwide. We use the very latest technologies and equipment and the know-how exclusive to an OEM.” MP