SET

In 1999 SET Ltd was formed to develop an innovative motor-in-wheel, the "Wheelmotor", offering a host of improvements to the Light Rail and Tram Industries, including significant energy savings and true 'low-floor' designs to improve vehicle access. The project developed through the next decade spinning off a few products including rail tugs, and a prototype product retrofitted to a Blackpool tram. In parallel SET developed and sold various bespoke power electronic solutions including static frequency converters and induction heater power supplies. The technical skills and experience from these founding years have has enabled us in recent years to focus on and grow a successful repair business based on the premise of finding and fixing the root cause of faults rather than simple component replacement. This approach has developed, over time and several projects, into SET being able to offer a full investigative maintenance solutions service over and above the basic repair business. Working in close co-operation with the customer, utilising a variety of methods (lab testing, real time data logging etc.) and in-depth, in-house analysis, we offer a comprehensive root-cause solution to out-of-the-ordinary maintenance problems. Following a significant management restructure SET is now reinvigorating its innovation activities and has relaunched the Wheelmotor project with a new set of objectives; supported by industry demand and government backing.