Capital Equipment News August 2016

PARTS AND MAINTENANCE

DIRECT SERVICING AND CALIBRATION for Pall’s PCM Cleanliness Monitor unit users in Africa

I ndustrial Fluid Monitoring Solutions (IFMS), the only authorised ser- vices, repairs and calibration business for Pall Corporation in South Africa, now offers direct servicing and calibration for all African users of Pall’s PCM Cleanliness Monitor units. IFMS was recently founded by Anton van Deventer, former Technical Services Manager for Pall South Africa, which had been servicing the African PCM users under Pall SA. With his 13-plus years of experience with Pall’s PCMs, filtration, separation and purification products, Van Deventer helped form Industrial Fluid Monitoring Solutions in conjunc- tion with a consortium of investors from AFS Holdings who have the distribution rights for Pall Corporation products in the energy market servicing the Southern African markets. The core focus of IFMS is the service, repair and calibration of all Pall PCMs; service and repair of all Pall filtration, separation and purification equipment as well as plant filtration audits and system design for new and existing concerns. Steven Whitcher, Market Development Manager for AFS Holdings, says the advent of IFMS comes with significant advantages for African PCM users. “As a result of our African users being able to deal directly with IFMS, we can now offer the African customer base quicker turnaround times on the units, while providing our services at a reduced cost,” he says, adding: “While the focus is on Africa in this endeavour, there is a more concentrated focus on Southern Africa for now and we aim to service any industrial user of hydraulic, lubrication, power transmission and insulating fluids. These include industries like mining, power sta- tions, refineries, machinery and equipment.” IFMS Field Services for purifiers Water in hydraulic, lubrication, power transmission and insulating flu- ids adversely affects fluid performance. It threatens overall system re- liability and can lead to compromised production and costly downtime. Companies today need equipment that can guarantee oil quality and reduce operating expenditure and a practical preventative maintenance programme is a critical part of achieving this. The right programme will help to extend oil life, reduce the need for oil disposal and minimise asset corrosion and unexpected equipment downtime. Proactively addressing these areas of concern improves equipment reliability and with it, overall costs. Pall purifiers are a key part of a reliable preventative maintenance strategy. Pall’s fluid conditioning purifiers have been designed for reliability and robust operation even under the most challenging conditions. They are easy to install, operate and maintain, feature a small footprint and can be built to typical industrial or explosion protected standards.

Industrial Fluid Monitoring Solutions now offers direct servicing and calibration for all African users of Pall’s PCM Cleanliness Monitor units.

The core focus of IFMS is the service repair of all Pall PCMs and calibration.

“We are proud to be recognised as the best services and repairs busi- ness for all filtration and purification equipment in Africa as well as the only authorised services, repair and calibration business or Pall Corporation in South Africa,” says Whitcher. “We’ve enjoyed a positive response from the market thus far, having secured PCM service and calibration contracts from Angola and the Middle East as well as locally. This bodes well for the future of IFMS and paves the way for more ac- cessible and affordable servicing, repairs and calibration for Pall PCM users in Africa,” he concludes. b