EMEX seminars

Seminar Speaker PROFILE

Seminar session | TUES 27TH MAY 01.00PM

Examining and simplifying PLM to increase revenue, reduce costs and maintain quality.

Current Manufacturing market conditions and inevitable growth within the Manufacturing sector

Product Lifecycle Management for industry and competitive enablement Simplifying PLM – Providing a PLM growth path for companies regardless of size or structure.

The reasoning behind PLM – including : increasing revenue through right to market products, quicker design and change cycle time, cost reduction through ease of data

use, and increased quality through systems driven development. Ease of deployment and the short time cycle to benefiting from PLM. Examination of Teamcenter and Teamcenter Rapid Start

The only Gold Certified Siemens PLM partner in Australia and New Zealand. PhoenxPLM supply and support the entire NX and Teamcenter product portfolios. Speaker

Brendon van Ras, Head of PhoenxPLM Teamcenter Division | PhoenxPLM

Mr Brendon van Ras became the head of PhoenxPLM Teamcenter Division in December 2011. In this role he is responsible for end to end Teamcenter solutions in some of Australia and New Zealand’s largest Manufacturing Companies. Prior to joining PhoenxPLM, Brendon honed his skills as a Teamcenter Business Analyst and Key Account Manager at Siemens Ltd. His Engineering turned Management career has spanned over 20 years and he is now one of the most respected Teamcenter gurus worldwide.

Seminar session | TUES 27TH MAY 02.30PM

Research and Innovation in the New Zealand Heavy Engineering Industry.

The session provides an overview of sector overarching research and development activities covered by the NZ Heavy Engineering Research Association (HERA). Examples of these activities are steel construction innovation R&D including the formation of the international steel fabrication certification scheme and the low enthalpy energy conversion program of the Above Ground Geothermal and Allied Technology (AGGAT) program. Attendees will have the opportunity to enquire how they will be able to participate in these industry wide activities. Speaker Since graduating as a mechanical engineer from the Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany, Dr Scholz has specialised in the field of automation technology for manufacturing environments. This was also the subject of his PhD, which he completed at the University of Auckland. His work with industrial robot welding systems created a particular interest in welding and led him to study for a Welding Engineer Certificate. Following several years in the German metals industry first as manager of industrial engineering and then of production, he moved in 1987 to New Zealand to establish and manage the New Zealand Welding Centre at HERA. Since 1996 he has been appointed Deputy Director of HERA and since 2000 he has taken over as HERA Director. He holds several advisory and board/executive positions relating to engineering training and industry development associations and is a Fellow of IPENZ. ing Dr Wolfgang Scholz, HERA Director | Metals New Zealand

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