|
LV switchgear & controlgear assemblies: Design fundamentals & safety assessments |
|
The Electrical Switchgear Association of South Africa (ESASA), in association with Graham, Golding & Associates, invites you to attend a 2-day technical training course on:
Low voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies:
Design fundamentals and safety assessment
DATE: 15 & 16 March 2011 TIME: 08h00 to 15h00 VENUE: SABS NETFA ( click here for map) COST: ESASA members: R2500; Non-members: R3500
The course is validated by the SAIEE (SAIEE-0399-V) and qualifies for two CPD points in terms of the ECSA CPD scheme.
BRIEF CV OF PRESENTER
Bill Graham has been in the industry for 47 years, and for ten years was technical director of CHI Controls, one of South Africa's leading low voltage switchgear manufacturers. In 2001 he formed his own consultancy (Graham, Golding & Associates), specialising in LV switchgear and controlgear assembly design, assessment, type testing and training. He serves on several SABS committees responsible for the preparation of SANS standards, and is convener of the SANS SC67B working group responsible for the preparation of LV switchgear and controlgear assembly safety standards. He is also convener of the SANS IEC liaison mirror committee for the IEC Technical Committee TC76D. He is a senior member of the SAIEE, and holds a BCom degree in economics and business economics.
COURSE OUTLINE
This course provides delegates with the following:
- Review of course content and video clips
- Legal requirements of the OHS Act and MHS Act with respect to manufacturers and users
- SANS 10142-1 with respect to fixed installations and its requirements for switchgear assemblies
- Introduction and overview of the revised assembly standard SANS61439
- Review of low voltage switchgear and controlgear assembly standards
- Assembly design verification and the need for an engineering design system (EDS)
- IP degree of protection and forms of separation requirements for switchgear assemblies
- Temperature-rise and power loss calculations and methodology for switchgear assemblies
- Short circuit withstand - core design principles and fundamentals
- Internal arc-fault - fundamental principles and arc mitigation procedures
- Legal requirements for assemblies
- Core principles of safe assembly design, testing and safety assessment
- Test assignment in groups
FURTHER DETAILS AND REGISTRATION
Click here for the course brochure and registration form. Alternatively, please contact James Baker, ESASA secretariat, Tel: 082 533-0692, Email: bakerjc@telkomsa.net
|
|
Accelerating South Africa's electronics export growth |
|
by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT
In July 2010, the South African Electrotechnical Export Council (SAEEC) commissioned research by Whitehouse and Associates on how the SA electronics industry could accelerate exports. The findings were thought-provoking and in some cases, concerning.
The research was conducted as follows:
There were 21 face-to-face interviews with 16 electronics companies, two with stakeholders and three with component distributors. Of the 16 electronics companies interviewed, ten reported being original design manufacturers, nine were design and development companies and seven offered electronics manufacturing services.
The research project had three clear objectives:
- To provide research and analysis that will underpin the development of an export strategy for the electronics sub-sector
- To identify constraints to the growth of the electronics sub-sector, thereby enabling the Department of Trade & Industry Electro-Technical Sector Desk to align export growth and industry development
- To develop a marketing framework which will be implemented by the SAEEC as part of its business plan to grow exports and broaden the base of exporters in this sub-sector
In addition to the face-to-face interviews, extensive review of existing literature on the international electronics industry was carried out. Direct contact was made with industry associations and investment promotion bodies in selected international markets and a review was carried out of international trade statistics as reported on the Comtrade (United Nations) system.
The SWOT analysis in the report shows some interesting trends. The South African electronics industry has exceptional strengths and opportunities but some inherent weaknesses. However many of the weaknesses are not impossible to overcome. For example "gets no support from government" goes hand in hand with an "attitude of going it alone".
It is clear that government will not provide financial and other support if it has to deal with many entities. Governments generally want to work with an organised industry sector. With the support of the DTI, the recent formation by the industry of the new South African Electronics Industry Federation (SAEIF) should go a long way to bring more government support to the sector... (more)
|
