At a recent specially commissioned Mining Day Tech Event in Perth, Eaton exhibited an expanded range of products and services designed to increase cost/energy efficiency, maximise uptime and improve safety at every stage of the mining value chain.
The Eaton Mining Tech Day, held at The Botanicals, Crown Perth Convention Centre, included presentations and technology demonstrations of Eaton?s latest customised solutions focused on mining in Australia, including switch gears and motor controls, LED applications, a hydraulic hose monitoring system and a radial piston motor.
The day was part of a series of events designed for Eaton to reach out to customers and local partners and to facilitate very specific discussions on what customers? challenges. It attracted more than 130 participants from 80 key customers including end users, original equipment manufacturers, contractors and distributors.
?The Tech Day is an event to display our latest innovations, products and solutions and invite our customers and potential customers, so that we can demonstrate and showcase to them Eaton?s technological advantages and breakthroughs,? Curt Hutchins, Eaton?s president for the Asia-Pacific region told Quarry. ?We organise Tech Days for our strategic customers or market segments, such as data centre, manufacturing OEMs, oil and gas, and mining.
?We hope our strategic customers will learn more about Eaton, our products and service and how our offerings can improve their productivity, efficiency and bottom line. It?s an opportunity for us to engage senior executives and to develop the engineering and technical relationships.?
This was the first time Eaton showcased its newly expanded range of electrical, hydraulics and filtration solutions for the mining segment after its acquisition of Cooper Industries late last year.
?With leading safety products from the former Cooper business, including Crouse-Hinds, we offer a unique combination of systems, components and services that ensure our customers minimise risk and optimise their investment,? Hutchins said.
?We also showcased the LED lighting applications, which offer a long life, lowest life cycle cost lighting alternative with vibration resistance across a comprehensive range of applications, delivering significantly reduced energy consumption.?
During the Tech Day, the hydraulics business showed off its newly launched Hydre-Mac radial piston motor, a low speed, high torque motor.
A similar event was held in Brisbane in December 2012. Eaton hosts more than 30 tech days a year globally, more than half of which are in the Asia-Pacific region.
Source: Eaton