From 8th to 10th April, Drives & Controls, Fluid Power & Systems, Air-Tech and Plant and Asset Management, together with the inaugural European Offshore & Energy exhibition, will be taking place at the NEC, Birmingham. Complementing these shows will be a full programme of free technical seminars, with speakers offering expert insight and practical advice on important and topical issues.
European Offshore & Energy, for example, will feature EnergyDialogue, a three-day conference covering a host of energy issues together with product/solution analysis; while TechKnowledge will feature a programme covering everything from detailed analyses of proven existing technology to the latest industry innovations.
UKTI representatives will speak at the conferences on the topic of overseas trade and investment opportunities. UKTI, who will be exhibiting in its own right at European Offshore and Energy, will also be on hand to provide guidance and support for visitors and exhibitors alike from a trade and investment perspective.
Among the papers being presented at the Maintenance Seminar Theatre located in the Plant & Asset Management exhibition will be: Total productive maintenance (TPM) in a changing world, by Paul Hardiman of Industry Forum; Testing HV switchgear & cables – partial discharge detection techniques, by Carl Eastham of IPEC; Redundant assets – to decommission or not to decommission, by Richard Vann of RVA Group; Avoiding vibration induced fatigue failure in process pipework, by Neil Parkinson of AV Technology; Managing the condition and energy efficiency of your plant assets, by Shane Golaup of Infor; Reduce maintenance costs and improve equipment reliability with IR windows, by Martin Robinson of IRISS; and Estimating the real value of enterprise asset management, by Andrew Carrie of SRO Solutions.
Some of the many valuable papers being presented at this year’s Fluid Power & Air Seminar Theatre will include: Meeting the Changing Requirements of Fluid Power Equipment in Earthmoving Machinery – a JCB Perspective, by Harish Narotham of JCB Research; Business as usual (how not to run a compressed air system), by Greg Bordiak of the British Compressed Air Society (BCAS); Pressure integrity of screwed and socketed pipework systems, by TATA; and Why you should use Genuine Manufacturer Spare Parts, by Chris Dee of BCAS. The Air-Tech and Fluid Power & Systems seminars are sponsored by Gardner Denver.
The event will also be staging of the Motor Driven Conference (MDS), which is focused on helping professionals to generate major savings from motor driven apparatus by applying a systems engineering approach to reduce energy, improve performance and ultimately save money.
