Learnshop seminars set for this year's Maintec exhibition

Learnshop highlights

• Britvic’s Simon Hatson will provide an insight into how the maintenance of both new and old equipment has been approached within one company in the food and drink industry.
• Schaeffler UK’s Ian Pledger will discuss how, in today’s economic climate, it is important to introduce an effective condition-monitoring regime that enables engineers to keep their machinery running efficiently.
• Dr Lee Renforth from High Voltage Partial Discharge will talk about online partial discharge case studies for cables, switchgear, generators, motors and transformers. His presentation will include a summary of the different economic drivers that apply to both public utility and industrial networks.
• Rosh Engineering’s Ian Dormer will focus on health and safety issues.
• David Stefanowicz of the Electrical Contractors’ Association will focus on wireless systems, which he says are fast becoming mainstream.
• Paul Sacker from Crimson Industrial Vision will discuss remote visual inspection. He will talk about the latest advances in minimally invasive inspection using video endoscopes and inspection cameras.
• Robin Buller of KRR Prostream will talk about how to maintain optimal performance in a power-generating plant.
• Radio Data’s Brian Back will look at the threat to business facilities posed by pollution and, in particular, firewater.
• Luke Barnes of Reactec will discuss the dangers of hand-arm vibration across a range of industries in the UK and the prevention measures that companies can undertake in order to protect their workforce from the condition.
• Dean Whittle of Reliability Maintenance Solutions will look at how the vibration spectrum can indicate fault conditions.
• Graeme Coyne of Siemens will focus on the value of customer service to a company’s maintenance operations.
• Keith Bostock of SRO Solutions will look at how asset management software can benefit most maintenance organisations.