European Motor Services- Paradigm Shift Towards Predictive Maintenance

The Southern African mining sector is expected to drive economic growth. However, there are certain challenges that pose a risk to stakeholders involved in the mining sector. These factors can hinder the potential benefit that can be gained by increased mining exploration.

Highlights of the briefing:
- Learn how mining contributes to the GDP of the Southern African mining sector
- Identify key challenges affecting the industry
- Hear about key actions that may be adopted by stakeholders

Africa hosts an estimated 30 percent of the world’s total mineral reserves. Key commodities found within Africa include deposits of platinum, coal, gold, copper, iron ore, nickel, manganese, cobalt and diamonds. Increasing global demand for mineral commodities such as coal, uranium, iron ore, copper, gold, platinum and nickel has resulted in a rise in investment within Africa’s mining industry.

Highlights of the briefing:
- Discuss key challenges of doing business in Africa
- Outline growth drivers of Africa’s mining industry
- Provide an overview of key countries investing into Africa
- Provide an outline of the opportunities that are relevant to stakeholders with a vested interest in Africa’s mining industry

Digital manufacturing has well and truly arrived in the industrial scene. A highly crowded market space has entailed the need for improving manufacturing efficiency and compressed time-to-market. Through this briefing, we'll try to reflect on the current status quo of the global Digital Manufacturing market, with a strategic focus on end-users and geographies that have catalysed the market's growth over the years. The briefing will also aim to provide insights on the next-wave of evolution in this space with a special emphasis on product and technology trends that are slowly aiding in the dawn of an advanced future factory.

This discussion and presentation brings together both regional and industry experts to provide insights on the “lay of the land” projected for 2013 in the global manufacturing and process industries. Our panelists will discuss:

·The global economic outlook for 2013, with a focus on manufacturing and process control

·The top-most critical issues for manufacturers now, and perspectives on manufacturing moving back to the U.S.

·The general economic mood in Europe and what it means to the manufacturing and process industries, with the top five trends/opportunities for EU

·The general economic mood in APAC, China and India; portents for manufacturing and process; and the top five trends/opportunities

·The global outlook for automation, pumps/valves/compressors, and motors and drives, and how the top five trends are driving opportunities for value chain participants

This briefing will investigate the key factors that shape the adoption trends of various automation solutions.

Why You Should Attend:
1.Understand the current landscape of the automation market in the Middle East
2.Identify the drivers and restraints for adoption of automation products
3.Discuss the major automation trends and their impact

The Middle East is poised for rapid and diversified industrialization and infrastructure growth to meet the needs of a burgeoning population. Although the Middle East is known for its reluctance to adopt new technologies, there has been a growing trend in efficient energy utilization and enhanced exploration of oil and gas.

Why You Should Attend:
- Identify the growth factors and impediments
- Learn about competitive and market dynamics
- Learn about the future market trends

The increasing emphasis on energy efficiency and its regulatory changes has ensured that market participants need to be aware of the impact of energy efficiency. This briefing will provide an overview of the European Pneumatic Equipment Market, regional trends and the growing emphasis on product integration and energy efficiency in the market.

Highlights of the briefing:

· Market analysis of the European Pneumatic Equipment Market
· Importance of energy-efficient products
· Product integration with electronics
· Future market trends

This briefing will investigate how the motors and drives manufacturers can capitalize on this growing trend.

Why You Should Attend:
•Learn about the growth of shale gas in the U.S.
•Identify key growth opportunities for motors and drives
•LNG exports and implications for motors and drives manufacturers

The European HVAC industry is undergoing unprecedented change. The dynamics driving the change—technological innovation in building design and energy conservation—are altering the European market and, ultimately, impacting equipment and applications. This briefing will investigate the growth potential for sales of electric drives to the European HVAC industry.

Why You Should Attend:
· Learn about the growth of the European electric drives market for HVAC application
· Identify the drivers and restraints of the industry

The world is changing toward a highly technology-dependent market for productivity benefits, that drive automation in the future. The need for automation is spurring the demand for customized welding solutions that have brought innovative technologies and is expected to drive growth.

Highlights of the briefing include analysis of: drivers and restraints, technology trends, and regional trends across the global submerged arc welding equipment and consumables market in seven major end-user segments.

Coupled with changing end-user preference, sweeping changes across the industry are revamping the way business is done in the servo and stepper motor and drives market. This briefing will outline the changing industry dynamics in the North American servo and stepper motors and drives market.

Why You Should Attend:
· Learn the new rules of the road for conducting business in the market
· Understand how changing customer requirements are impacting the value chain
· Understand what the competition is doing to address these changes

Post 2010, after the infamous Stuxnet attack in Iran, cyber threats have gained considerable attention from all sections of the industry. This briefing will provide automation vendors an insight into some of the popular industrial perceptions toward cyber security and provide viable recommendations for security initiatives in future enterprises.

Key Take-Aways:
- History of cyber threats and significance to automation vendors
- Evaluate contemporary security initiatives and articulate strategic recommendations
- Interactive Q&A session

The European motor services market grew at a healthy rate in 2011. Although there has been increase in growth, the outlook for 2012 is gloomy due to the impact of ongoing debt crisis in Europe. The need to improve uptime, increase plant profitability, process efficiency and complexity of the manufacturing process resulted in the need for increased service requirements. This briefing will provide an overview of the market and highlight key trends.

Demand for cement is poised to grow as a result of sustained economic growth and investment in infrastructure in the East African region. The implementation of cost control initiatives by cement producers in East Africa will allow them to compare favourably with leading world cement producers in terms of profitability.

This briefing will investigate the following:
- Key growth opportunities in the marketplace
- Identify the factors driving growth and the risks anticipated to affect the East African cement industry
- Forecasts & future market movements

Russia the world's largest diamond miner in 2010; after many years, it has produced more than South Africa. In 2010, Russia accounted for 23.5 percent of the total diamond production in terms of volume, and 25 percent in terms of value. This briefing will present how Russia was able to improve its market position and its further prospects for development.

Why You Should Attend:
- Learn about the Russian market regulations
- Identify the drivers and restraints
- Hear about the cutting and polishing process

The evolving end-user industries and emerging technologies are materializing the needs for customized filler metals, which are to be addressed and met at competitive prices. This drove technology and innovation that lead to the growth of the global welding consumables market in 2010. Solid wires and stick electrodes had the largest growth rates while flux cored wires were also witnessed to have growing preferences amongst end-users.

Highlights of the briefing include analysis of: drivers and restraints, technology trends, regional trends across the global welding consumables market in seven major end-user segments.

Mozambique's huge and unexploited coal deposits in the Tete province have attracted significant attention from international mining companies, project development companies and financiers. There are seven large scale coal development projects that are collectively worth $11.17 billion in Mozambique's mining industry. Coal exports are likely to become the country's single largest source of foreign exchange by 2013. Brazil's Vale, Rio Tinto and Ncondezi Coal Ltd are some of the companies that own large scale coal development projects in Mozambique.

2010 was a period of growth, competition and innovation in the European PLM market. Among different PLM products, Collaborative Product Definitions Management (cPDm) had the highest growth rate, while digital manufacturing is fast emerging as an interesting PLM segment.

The advent of system integrators and value-added resellers continues to be a significant source of revenue and growth for the overall market in Europe. The future of PLM is currently at crossroads, with major vendors looking at strategic partnerships to integrate PLM with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

Automation demand within the mining sector is set to witness robust growth. This includes an increase for locally mined commodities, high global commodity prices, increased capital expenditure, escalating labor and energy costs. As a result of this anticipated rise in demand, ACS suppliers should position themselves within the industry to fully benefit from these potential opportunities. Despite these positives, the consistent lobbying for mine nationalization by the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema, is chief among the factors that could impact the level of investment within South Africa’s mining industry.