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2006 : ENGINEERING FOR THE COMPETITIVE EDGE

 

Time/Place: 21 & 22 June Morphetville Function Centre, Adelaide South Australia

Key Note Speaker: Dr. Tim Cooper (Managing Director, Coopers Brewery)

Statistics: 341 Delegates, 36 Presentations, 74 Exhibitors

Dinner: MC Paul Warman (Programmed Maintenance Services) with entertainment by Comedian Dave Flannagan

Travel Award: not awarded

Engineering Excellence Charles Sturt University: Julie Babich

University of Adelaide Scholarship: Sally Kernich

Other info: David Ponce is the first delegate from USA

SPEAKER LISTING

coordinated by David Clark

Wednesday 21 June 2006

Conference Welcome: Geoff Leighton (WEA President)
Engineering for the Competitive Edge: Dr Tim Cooper (Managing Director, Coopers Brewery)
Automation - A Leveraged Investment: David Hegarty (Rockwell Automation)
Benchmarking: Penny Frost (Provisor)
Sourcing Strategies: Steve Taylor (Tungsten Group)
Risk Management in Buildings: Ashley May (Tungsten Group)
Can Safety & Productivity Coexist: Peter Kroon (Sage Automation)
Solar Heat Gains On Outside of Wine Tanks: Trevor Devles (Charles Sturt University)
Bentonite Fining : Can We Improve Performance and Efficiency & Decrease Wine Losses: Chris Colby (University of Adelaide/AWRI)
Cleaner Production. Its Easier Than You Think: Peter Goss (Archer Environmental Services)
Operational Effectiveness: Supplier Performance Development Through The Use of Statistical Process Control: Peter Hoult (Fosters Wine Estates)
Innovation In Management of Wastewater in The Australian Wine Industry: Wendy Quayle (CSIRO/University of New England)
Production of Fungal Biomass Protein & Biocontrol Agents Using Winery Wastes: Boh Jin (University South Australia)
Shear Force between "ECP" Lobe & Helical Rotor Pumps: Jim Guslovan (Rapidfil)
The White Wine Cellar Project: Mr Ken Johnson (Yalumba Wine Company)
Fieldbus Technologies in Winery Automation: Chris Hoey (Burkert Fluid Control Systems)
Power Factor Correction Selection: Simon Hoey (NHP)

Thursday 22 June 2006

The Secret to Achieving Clean & Dry Compressed Air: Graeme Cole (Champion Air Compressors)
Raising The Performance of Air Compressors: David Svanitti (CAAA/Pilot Air Compressors)
Simple Measures to Save Money Wasted on Compressed Air: Murray Nottle (CAPS)
Development of The New Wolf Blass Packaging Centre: Ben McDonald (Fosters Wine Estates)
Warehouse Design: Rodney Davies (Beca)
Intergrated Bar Code & RFID Supply Chain Solutions: Mark Dingley (Matthews)
Wine in Tetra Pak Packaging: Sean Ferguson (Tetra Pak)
New Generation of High Speed Disk Clarifiers for Wineries: Ettore Spinato (Seital)
A Successful Process & Application of Tangential Micro-Filtration on Wine: Herve de Vilmorin (Vaslin Bucher)
Australian Innovation for Pre-filtering and/or Pressing Must: Peter Smolenaers (Vitquip)
Winery Engineering & Technological Education & Practice in Central USA: David Ponce (Shawnee Community College)
Diffusive Methods for Wine Oxygenation: Anthony Flecknoe-Brown (Flextank Industries)
pH Adjustment of Must, Juice & Wine by Means of Electro Dialysis Bipolar Membranes: Sylvain Marcorelles (Boccard Oenologie)
Density Driven Fermentation Control: Stephan Wieland (Liquosystems)
Automated Yeast ReHydration; "Easyferm": George Willcox (Oenobev)
Automated Filtration in The Wine Industry: Paul McNicholas (Cuno)
Liquid Nitrogen Dosing of Bottled Wine: Richard Gibson (Scorpex)
Heat Exchange Technoloy: Iain Pearson (Applied Laser)
WEA Travel Award Report - Winery Waste or Useful By-Product : Christopher Ripper (MVC Corp)
The Successful Development of Recovering Wine from Marc: Bill Grills (Tandou) Richard Gibson (Scorpex)

 
EXHIBITION & SPONSORS

coordinated by Trevor Leighton

Scheduled maintenance, painting & cleaning

link to Rockwell Automation Sage Automation Thermowrap Tank Insulation

ABB Australia Pty Ltd
Abeve and Siprem International
Aesseal Australia Pty Ltd
Aggreko Pty Ltd
Air Comfort Services
Air-Cell Insulation
AllMix - Mixing Technology
Atlas Specialty Metals
Australian Winemakers Pty Ltd
Blucher (Aust) Pty Ltd
Burkert Fluid Control Systems
Byford Equipment
C&A Complete Drive Solutions
C.E. Bartlett Pty Ltd
CAPS Aust Pty Ltd
Champion Compressors
Cold Logic Pty Ltd
Cuno Pacific Pty Ltd
Danfoss
Festo Pty Ltd
Flextank Pty Ltd
Fluid Handling Solutions
IFM Efector
J.B. Macmahon
J.L. Lennard Pty Ltd
Jamesprint Labels
JMA Engineering Pty Ltd
JPR Controls
Liquid Technologies Aust
Matrix Process Solutions
Mathews Intelligent Identification
Mobicon
Mono Pumps
MSS Pump, Seal & Safety
NHP Electrical Engineering Pty Ltd
Oenobev Technology
Osmoflo Pty Ltd
Pall Food and Beverage
PCPL - Patrick Charles Pty Ltd
Pera Australia
Power Pumps and Engineering
Prochem Pipeline Products
Programmed Maintenance Services
Provisor
Pryde Measurement Pty Ltd
Rapidfil Pty Ltd
Raymax Applications Pty Ltd
Reeve Engineering
Ridgelea Pty Ltd
Rockwell Automation
SEW Eurodrive
Stirlings Australia Global Metals
Sudmo Australia
Swisslog Aust Pty Ltd
Thermowrap Aust Pty Ltd
Total Rubber Services
Travhotec Pty Ltd
Tritech Refrigeration
Tyco Flow Control
Vaslin Bucher
W.E. Ware & Co
Wesfarmers Kleenheat Gas
Westfalia Separator Pty Ltd
Wilmes
Wine Technology Aust
Yokogawa Aust