Case Study: UPS Backup UPS Replacement Case Study About Reach Plc are the largest national and regional news publisher in the UK, with influential and iconic brands such as the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday People, Daily Record, Daily Star, OK! and market leading regional titles including the Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo, Birmingham Mail and Bristol Post. Last year Reach Plc sold 540 million newspapers, and they have a bigger online monthly audience than all their competitors including Mail Online and News UK. Challenge Reach Plc had an ageing set up in place which consisted of 2 x 200kVA Riello MPS series that required battery changes. With this in mind, clamp readings were taken to find the efficiency of the infrastructure. This found that Reach were spending a lot on electricity as efficiency of the equipment was at 70%. A total cost of ownership was completed and we found that we could swap out the equipment with new and this would have a payback of 18 months, which run in line with Reach’s policy for payback on replacing equipment. UPS Systems PLC DCResponse [email protected] [email protected] www.upssystems.co.uk www.dcresponse.co.uk 01488 680500 01993 708855 UPS Generators Maintenance Unit 71 Shrivenham Hundred Business Park, Majors Road, Watchfield, Swindon, SN6 8TY Solution Finding a suitable time to change both of the systems was always going to be difficult as the units run 24/7 365 days a year. It was decided that the best time was during the day when everyone would be onsite and not at home. This would mean there were more staff available to deal with the disruption if any equipment did go down. With disruption possible, to eliminate this the generators were started up just in case to ensure the continuity of the business operations. Once this was in place, our engineers “I'd like to thank you team for all their switch the loading to one UPS to take down the other and efforts over the last two days to replace its strings of batteries whilst keeping the other online. This our two UPS systems. It was a nice change proved difficult as the existing battery racking had to be to work with a team of people who acted removed as the new models take 40 batteries to a string instead of 33. The new open racking equipment had to in a professional way and could be left to accommodate 160 SWL2500s which meant building up half carry out the work without having to be of the rack and moving this all to place once the second micromanaged.” system had been taken down. Barry Clark, Reach Printing Services Over 2 long days of work to ensure the equipment was all in place and paralleled together, the batteries and UPS units were working in tandem. There were no issues on site once the units were bought back online and Reach were able to take the generators offline. This new system will offer 10 year design life batteries along with a 3 year warranty on the UPS, which will give Reach Plc the peace of mind they were after for time to come. Outcome UPS Systems prevented a potentially catastrophic battery and UPS failure by successfully replacing the batteries and UPS units for two 200kVA units which had reached the end of their design life and has now improved the efficiency within the infrastructure. UPS Systems will respond to any future faults within 4 hours all year round, allowing Reach Plc to relax in the knowledge that the network will not be disrupted in the event of a power failure. UPS Systems PLC DCResponse [email protected] [email protected] www.upssystems.co.uk www.dcresponse.co.uk 01488 680500 01993 708855 UPS Generators Maintenance Unit 71 Shrivenham Hundred Business Park, Majors Road, Watchfield, Swindon, SN6 8TY.