Electricity + Control August 2016

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Offering complete confidence, certainty and comfort

It is never just about supplying products or technical support to the market. It is also about implementing best practice across all companies and in particular manufacturing operations. Louis Meiring, chief executive officer of the Zest WEG Group, says that it is this operating philosophy that has seen the Group’s holding company,WEG Brazil, continue to invest in the local opera- tion’s manufacturing facilities. Significantly, Zest WEG Group will be exhibiting its locally manufactured custom equipment at Electra Mining Africa 2016. Meiring says that the most recent investment has been in best practice production control programmes that will allow the ZestWEG Group manufacturing operations to improve processes thereby ac- celerating production and meeting the shortened lead times which have become the norm in the market.

He explains that the decision to introduce WEG’s manufacturing planning and execution system into the South African operations forms part of the global sustainability strategy. “It was always the intention to implement best practices at these facilities with the long term objective of enabling these manufacturing plants to produce product for the international market,” he says. Eventually,WEG will be able to manufacture at any of its centres worldwide. “ Zest WEG Group as an organisation is very excited about this step and particularly the very clear benefits that our customers will see,” Meiring says. “It will make a massive contribution to the success of our local manufacturing facilities and put us into the international space.” JulianoVargas, ZestWEG Group logistics and operations director, explains that themanufacturing planning and execution systembeing

used iswell proven at otherWEGmanufacturing facilities. “The system facilitates full control of all our manu- facturing operations, and importantly provides accurate cost and time control. Access to this level of information allows a high degree of certainty and creates an environ- ment where customers can have complete confidence and comfort,” Vargas says. Enquiries: Kirsten Larkan.Tel. +27 (0) 11 723 6000 or email marketing@zestweg.com Visit the Zest WEG Group stand at Electra Mining Africa 2016 to view the company’s locally manufactured custom equipment.

Motor Control Centres being manufactured at Shaw Controls.

Pressure transmitter with mbar ranges The A-10 pressure transmitter from WIKA is now also available with the smallest of pressure ranges from 0 … 50 mbar to 0 … 600 mbar. The wetted parts in this variant are all

welded and from stainless steel. The new mbar pressure ranges are particu- larly suitable for level measurements on small tanks in stationary and mobile applications. A further field of application is all types of gas measurement. Among WIKA's measuring instruments for gen- eral industrial applications, the A-10 is a best-seller with an excellent price/per-

formance ratio. It offers more than two million variants. Customers can choose from a wide selection of pressure ranges, process connec- tions and output signals. A free test report provides information on the measuring points recorded during manufacture. Enquiries:WIKA Instruments.Tel. +27 (0) 11 621 0000 or email sales.za@wika.com