Our Work
VIL offers a range of services for Vacuum Interrupter Manufacturers, Switchgear Manufacturers, and Switchgear Owners and Operators.
Vacuum Interrupter Design
Dr Falkingham and the VIL team members have been at the forefront of Vacuum Interrupter (VI) design for over 30 years. VIL has full design capacity for VI at all ratings typically ranging from 1kV to 245kV and Interruption levels up to 63kA, according to company requirements or International Standards such as IEC, GB and ANSI.
Vacuum Interrupters can be designed as drop in replacements for existing VI or designed to fit existing circuit breakers, or optimally, new VI can be designed for any rating together with new circuit breakers.
Vacuum Switching Technology and Research
VIL prides itself on Research and Development into both VI technology as well as the Switching function itself.Your content goes here.
VI Manufacturing Plant Design
VIL performs its own Research into Vacuum Interrupter technology and manufacturing processes in order to both optimise the processes and meet ever changing requirements for environmental and safety issues.
The VIL Manufacturing system has been developed over many years and can be adapted to meet the requirements of micro factories (5000 VI per year or less) up to Mega factories (2500,000 VI per year or more).
The factories are individually designed around the customers requirements and in particular the level of automation can range from a fully manually operated factory up to total automation where there are no direct human workers.
Investigation Services
Problem Investigation – VIL has both credibility and experience worldwide in problem investigation into Interrupter problems, VI Manufacturing problems and Application.
Independent Forensic Investigation – Vacuum Interrupters are extremely reliable in service, but as they are applied in large numbers over very many years, occasionally failure may occur. VIL has extensive experience in investigating problems with vacuum circuit breakers, ranging from loss of vacuum for the VI up to catastrophic failure of the circuit breaker. This is mainly a field based service.