Mechanical Technology — May 2013
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Products and services
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HPE Africa introduces
McCloskey International range
High Power Equipment (HPE) Africa has ex-
panded its comprehensive product offering to
the local market after being officially named
in January 2013 as the sole Southern African
distributor for Canada-based McCloskey Inter-
national, a global leader in the manufacture of
crushing, screening and recycling equipment.
HPE Africa will stock and distribute the entire
range of McCloskey International equipment,
which is divided into four main products groups
that include: stock piling conveyors, crushers,
trommel screens – aimed at the organic and
recycling markets – and vibrating screens for
the aggregate market.
“The McCloskey International range of equip-
ment augments HPE Africa’s current offering to
all of its existing markets. As the sole distributer
of the McCloskey International brand in South-
ern Africa, HPE Africa has committed itself to
being a fully stocked dealer, and will be fur-
nished to provide the support that is required to
properly maintain the McCloskey International
range of equipment and its customer relation-
ships.
Kobold Instrumentation, represented
in South Africa by Instrotech – a
Comtest Group company – develops,
manufactures and sells instruments for
monitoring, measuring and regulating
the physical quantities of flow rate,
pressure, level and temperature.
An international state-owned oil and
gas company, covering all aspects of the
stream from exploration to production,
refinery, depots, pump stations, and
Since launching the SKF cloud in
November 2012, the global network
of SKF Remote Diagnostic Centres
has been connected, bringing together
global IT solutions and making all appli-
cation data accessible in a single cloud-
based system. This collective data
reflects a huge breadth of knowledge
and experience in diagnosing and solv-
ing customer machinery maintenance
issues in applications across all major
industries worldwide. SKF Asset Diag-
nostic Services can now leverage and
share this knowledge, and at any time
of day, SKF service engineers – located
in timezones around the world – can be
available to provide support in response
to problems.
“The new cloud-based solution al-
lows us to monitor and diagnose not
hundreds of thousands, but millions of
machines. We already have half a mil-
lion machines in the cloud. This shared
knowledge helps us better serve our
customers. In addition, the software and
cloud-based services give our customers
24/7 access to an easy to understand
diagnostics dashboard, regular report-
HPE Africa will stock and distribute the entire
range of McCloskey International equipment: stock
piling conveyors, crushers (eg, the jaw crusher
above), trommel and vibrating screens.
SKF’s remote asset diagnostic services
SKF’s cloud-based Remote Diagnostic
Centre.
ing and our knowledge network. In
this way we can help our customers
to increase machine availability while
decreasing maintenance costs,” says
Erwin Weis, global manager – SKF As-
set Diagnostic Services.
SKF Asset Diagnostic Services are
particularly suitable for applications in
wind, marine, mining, paper and metal
industries, and all other major industries
where condition monitoring is used. Part
of this offer includes ‘software as a ser-
vice’ (SaaS), which allows the customer
to use the SKF cloud to host the data
from their condition based maintenance
programme.
Kobold’s differential pressure transmitter
ultimately the retail outlet, recently
went to the market for offers to revamp
and refit a field instrumentation and
control project.
The refit included the replacement
of not only the defective/faulty field
instruments, but also the main control
system. Most of the instruments in-
stalled at the site were dP flow meter
types, both senior orifice and pitot tube
– and almost all of these were defective
and needed to be replaced for the site
to operate safely and normally. With
the launch of the long-awaited PAD dP
The Kobold differential pressure trans-
mitter is a microprocessor-based high
performance hydraulic pressure transmit-
ter with automatic ambient temperature
compensation.
Furnace flame monitoring system
Durag’s D-UG 660/D-LE 603 flame monitoring system, distributed in South Africa by OEN
Enterprises, is ideal for monitoring all kinds of furnaces, even under difficult conditions.
Typical applications include power stations, chemical industries, refineries, cement plants
and waste incinerators. The combination of the D-UG 660 Control Unit and D-LE 603
Flame Sensor offers detailed information and adjustment options. It is recommended for
use in furnace plants with several burners that have significant demands on selectivity at
high sensitivity levels.
At fuel change or to compensate for strong movements of the flame, a secondary flame
sensor connected in parallel can take over flame monitoring, which makes the D-UG 660
universally suitable for use in plants of varying fuel types and/or load conditions.
The design of the D-UG 660/D-LE 603 is fail safe with a dual channel microprocessor
system to ensure safe operation of the flame monitor and built in periodic self checking.
transmitter, and in-depth discussions
with the oil company, the new Kobold
differential pressure transmitter (PAD)
was specified. By showing the client
a complete picture and competitive
overall pricing model, Kobold managed
to seal the deal.
