2010-05-24 - Conference aims to assist industry on improved ways to reduce rising costs, increase productivity and raise plant uptime.
A predictive maintenance and reliability engineering conference will take place on 1 and 2 September 2010 to offer solutions to industry hard hit by economic uncertainty and trying to cope with sharp cost increases and the need to improve productivity and uptime.
According to the organizers this will be the premier event in South Africa for Predictive Maintenance and Reliability Engineering-based maintenance (PdM). The two-day event comprises a conference offering more than 45 presentations by local and international experts and an exhibition aimed at personnel responsible for the reliability and availability of equipment in the mining, utilities and industrial sectors.
“Industry in South Africa is under enormous pressure to reduce costs and increase productivity and plant availability,” says Quinton Jones, Full Service Manager of ABB South Africa. “This conference, jointly hosted by ABB South Africa with the largest condition monitoring consulting group in southern Africa, comes at the right time.”
Presentations will cover the latest technology and products available to the maintenance engineer to adequately predict the condition of the production plant, ensuring that maintenance personnel can be forewarned with the knowledge to effectively execute planned maintenance with minimized costs. The exhibition areas will showcase predictive maintenance technologies, products and services.
The event will be sponsored and hosted at ABB South Africa’s energy efficient premises in Longmeadow, Johannesburg. Three tracks will accommodate electrical and mechanical aspects of the business. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) validation points accompany this event.
Further updates about the conference topics and presenters will be available in forthcoming weeks on www.abb.com/za