Seminars

• Identify limitations in using common international standards when designing geared systems
• Describe how analysis techniques are employed to calculate gear operating characteristics prior to manufacture
• Discuss various options for carrying out the analysis in various levels of sophistication
• Show how it is possible to optimise gear sets at one load level

• Running Cost vs Purchase Cost
• Motor Efficiency and IEC efficiency classes
• Eco-design Directive requirements for electric motors and drives
• Variable Speed Drive impact on system efficiency

• How banks appraise lending applications
• What do banks look for
• How can you present the information?
• How should you manage the relationship going forward?

• Use innovation to adapt to new customer challenges
• Place customer centricity at the heart of your offering
• Let technology drive your marketing

• The desire to increase mobility and flexibility
• Improve accessibility to remote or hard to reach locations
• The need to reduce cost by reducing or eliminating cable installations

• Assessing training needs
• Developing efective training solutions
• Creating a mechanism for transferring learning into the workplace

·         Helping manufacturers make better business decisions by converging manufacturing and enterprise networks and increasing access to data

·          Understanding the threats to manufacturing assets presented by network convergence and how best practices can establish secure and robust network infrastructures

·         Bridging the gap between network ownership and cultural differences when deploying enterprise and manufacturing assets, including assessing the architectural and security demands of both engineering and enterprise environments

• How to handle materials more safely
• Storing more product in less space
• How to benefit from your free warehouse layout suggestion

• Efficient and promt maintenance
• Improving diagnostic techniques
• Explaining the conceptual framework for fault diagnosis

• Building a learning culture in your company
• Training is a continual progression not just a one hit wonder
• Making good use of outside help
• The obvious signs of success

• Exploiting the benefits of a value-based approach
• Developing a best practice energy, cost and carbon reduction strategy
• Leveraging success from innovative financing models

• New technologies for vibration condition monitoring
• Gear boxes 3 - Rotating parts of machinery
• Composite materials
• New generation proactive maintenance of machinery

• Main changes and duties in the new directive
• What is meant by "state of art"?
• The role of harmonised standards and their limitations
• Interfacing with user legislation such as PUWER

• An overview of the Carbon Trust
• Seek out low carbon opportunities
• Establishing the basis for financial decision making - simple payback or total cost of ownership?
• The Benefits of claming an enhanced capital allowance

• Future of maintenance
• Best practice
• Vibration analysis
• Condition monitoring
• Solutions

• Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide - where are we now?
• Directors' duties for health and safety compliance
• Make it safe - how to stay out of jail

• Trends in industrial control systems, the growth of industrial fieldbus networks
• The role of Ethernet in industrial fieldbus networks
• Problems for safety-related communications
• The need for real time communications

• New gearbox condition monitoring techniques
• Monitoring systems for lubricant condition and wear debris generation
• Examples from wind power generation and offshore applications