Industry News: CII 2013 MainTech
Maintenance’ constitutes an important business process in any industry, especially in continuous & batch process industries. However it is considered as a non-core technical activity, with a limited scope of maintenance and neglecting its impact on the overall business model.
To overcome this gap, Confederation of Indian Industry has established this “Forum for Maintenance Technology & Practices” and through the last 4 editions of MainTech CII has been establishing the fact that like any other business function in the industry, Maintenance Technology can be positioned as a significant functional area, towards enhancing asset efficiency and cost reduction.
Chairman's Message
"The MainTech platform by CII in its 5th edition, continued in its endeavor to bring the latest trends and technologies in the maintenance arena to the industry. It has given me immense pleasure to experience the excellent response to our this year's edition specifically focused on Gearbox Maintenance and we look forward to take it forward, based on the positive feedbacks received from all our patrons.”
After the mega success of earlier 4 editions, CII organized the 5th edition of MainTech 2013 with specific focus on “Gear Box Maintenance” on 2nd August 2013 at Vadodara. The Conference identified challenges & best practices pertaining to proactive maintenance of Gear Box and covered wide range of topics of interest to the stakeholders in the various areas.
Technical session I: “Basics of a Gear Box” was dedicated towards understanding the initial framework of the Gearboxes. The very proactive maintenance of this ubiquitous industrial product begins from the selection and installation part. Hence this session was to understand the engineering and challenges involved in the very foundational stage of Gearboxes.
Technical Session II: “Gear Box Maintenance” covered in depth about diagnosing problems, measurements, replacements, effective maintenance of a Gear Box and to understand how the Lubrication, vibration analysis practice can be used as a reliable proactive maintenance techniques for Gear Box and how to improve reliability of industrial transmissions.
Technical Session III: “Sharing of Best Practices” aimed at putting up relevant live illustrations in the areas having wide implications of proactive maintenance practice for the Gear Box. Case study on Gear Box Vibration Diagnostics, Beyond Condition Monitoring, Manufacturer prospective and user prospective were deliberated by esteemed speakers. Key Speakers who addressed during the event were: Mr Premraj Keshyep, Chairman – CII Central Gujarat Zonal Council & Managing Director- Conmat Systems Pvt. Ltd., Mr Samir Sabnis,Chairman – 5th edition of CII’s MainTech 2013 & Director- Pruftechnik Aimil (India) Pvt. Ltd., Mr Vilas Kalyankar, Chief Executive Officer – Gear Division, Elecon Engineering Company Ltd., Mr Sunil Desai, Chairman – CII Central Gujarat Zonal MSME Taskforce & Managing Director- Richfield Engineering India Pvt. Ltd., Mr Nishith Dand- Managing Director, Sure Safety (India) Pvt. Ltd., Mr Rajiv Gandhi- Director Technical, Vulcan Industrial Engineering Co. Ltd., Mr R N Madke- Executive Director – Technical (Transmission), Vulcan Industrial Engineering Co. Ltd., Mr Sreepal Ranjan Singh Negi, General Manager – Technical Services, FAG Bearings India Ltd., Mr Rajeev Dubey- Managing Director, Quantum Age Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mr Jayanta Mukhopadhyay- General Manager – Design, Elecon Engineering Co. Ltd., Mr RBM Tripathi- General Manager – Operations & Maintenance, J K Cement Works
The Conference was highly successful and was attended by more than 200 participants from the different sectors of Industry. The 6th Edition of MainTech is scheduled on Friday, 25th July 2014 at Vadodara.
