| 08 Jun 2010 |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | | How to market your business and take advantage of the upturn
Rod Wilkes, The Chartered Institute of Marketing
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- Using innovation to adapt to new customer challenges
- Placing customer centricity at the heart of your offering
- Letting technology drive your marketing
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | | HSE safety and pressure testing
Zoë Feather, HSE, HM Inspector
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
Additional Speaker:
Paul Grady, HSE, UM Specialist Inspector
- The work the HSE is undertaking on pressure testing (Hydraulic and Pneumatic)
- Legal requirements relating to safety in pressure testing
- Examples of good and bad practice
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | | Who can you trust? The future of compressed air
Chris Dee, BCAS, Executive Director
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- Looking for a business you can trust
- Check them out before you choose
- The key questions you should ask
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| 13:30 - 14:00 | | How can you obtain funding/credit for capital investment
Graeme Allinson, Barclays Bank, Head of Manufacturing, Transport and Logistics
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- How banks appraise lending applications
- What do banks look for
- How can you present the information
- How should you manage the relationship going forward
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| 09 Jun 2010 |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | | Applying the new Machinery Directive
Phil Papard, HSE, Head of Product Safety
- Main changes and duties in the new directive
- What is meant by "state of the art"?
- The role of harmonised standards and their limitations
- Interfacing with user legislation such as PUWER
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | | Safe hydraulic usage
John Beevers, Gates, District Sales Manager
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- Safe hydraulics - high pressure hydraulic hose and couplings
- The impact of EN983 (Machinery Directive) on manufacturers using hydraulic hose nad couplings
- The introduction of new technology (RIFD, HDMS, COMO) aimed at improving safety and reducing costs
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | | Compressed air - The importance of leak detection
Chris Dee, BCAS, Executive Director
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- Reduce your energy costs
- Improve your production costs
- Improve your health and safety environment
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | | Fluid power is changing: worldwide fluid power research
Prof Andrew Plummer, University of Bath, Director, Centre for Power Tranmission and Motion Control
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
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Pre-competitive research into fluid power technology is on the increase, the research main thrusts will be reviewed, particularly focussing on hydraulics
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Significant efforts to improve the efficiency of fluid power systems are being made, ranging from digital, to valve-less control and technological advances to improve the part-load efficiency of pumps
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| 13:30 - 14:00 | | Change access to meaningful training
Ian Morris, BFPA, Director
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
Additional Speaker:
Dawn Vinall, SEMTA, SSA Implementation Manager
- Training cost or investment
- Accessing funding support for training
- Who should be trained in my business
- The hardest step is the first one, getting started
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| 14:00 - 14:30 | | Condition monitoring of wind turbines and other slow rotating machines
Stan Jackson, SPM Instrument UK, Managing Director
- Why condition monitoring
- Financial benefits
- Problems with slow speed applications
- Solutions
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| 10 Jun 2010 |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | | The importance of service and maintenance of compressed air systems
Chris Dee, BCAS, Executive Director
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- Do not take risks with your business
- Develop an effective compressed air systems
- Stay on the right side of the law
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | | How to obtain money from the carbon trust
Paul Huggins, Carbon Trust, Head of Financial Services
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- An overview of the Carbon Trust
- Seek out low carbon opportunities
- Establising the basis for financial decision making - simple payback or total cost of ownership?
- The benefits utilising and interest free Energy Efficiency loan
- The benefits of claimimg an enhanced capital allowance
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | | Marketing "thinking laterally"
Errol Taylor, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, Deputy Chief Executive
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- Thought leadership
- Electronic Communication
- Value proposition
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| 13:30 - 14:00 | | The Hose Accreditation Scheme
Ian Morris, BFPA, Director
Hall 3, Airtech and IFPEX - Stand 60
- How and why hydraulic hose copes with amazing abuse
- Do people really understand what is going on inside that black tube
- EN982, good advice or just more red tape
- Basic considerations necessary when sourcing hose
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