Modern Mining August 2018

ELECTRA MINING PREVIEW

provide significant benefits to customers. It also strengthens our ability to supply and manage large projects,” Gerrard says. He emphasises the value of early engage- ment with customers, which facilitates an in-depth understanding of the specific demands of projects. This enables Zest WEG Group to identify where it can contribute added-value offerings, drawing on its diverse product range that includes electric motors, vibrator motors, variable speed drives, switchgear, motor con- trol centres, mini-substations, generator sets, transformers, containerised mobile substations and E-houses. Also of interest will be WEG’s recent acquisi- tion of steam turbine manufacturing specialist TGM, which has a well-established reference base in the Brazilian market. Together with this, Zest WEG Group is growing its energy generation offering to include solutions in the renewable energy space. Gerrard highlights the company’s Level 2 B-BBEE status and its extensive local manu- facturing capabilities with four standalone facilities, enhancing its procurement value to customers in the mining sector. 

Electric motors can now be monitored remotely WEG Motor Scan is a performance monitoring solution for electric motor installations. This innovative solution is designed to optimise access to information about the motor’s performance and allows data to be extracted and sent to the cloud. The access to real-time information allows preventive actions to be taken, avoiding unscheduled downtime. Information is collected by the App using either a smart phone or tab- let device, in either Android or iOS versions, and is sent to the cloud via Bluetooth or gateway. The stored data can be analysed on the device screen in a dynamic way or in greater depth on the WEG IoT Platform. WEG Motor Scan will allow

the connection of all the sen- sors in a plant, enable naming and monitoring of as many electric motors as required, analyse data sent to the cloud and synchronise the data through the WEG IoT Platform. But, most importantly, this solution will allow end-users to find their motor from any- where in the world.  WEG Motor Scan monitors motor data, stores it in the cloud providing access via an App or on the WEG IoT Platform.

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