May 2013 – Denver, Colorado

Description

The next WMEA conference will be held:

May 29^th –  31^st, 2013

Renaissance Denver Hotel

3801 Quebec Street, Denver, CO  80207

May 29^th                         Wednesday 

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm         Board Meeting

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm         Hospitality Room

May 30^th                        Thursday

7:00 am – 8:00 am         Registration

8:00 am – 8:15 am         Opening remarks

8:15 am – 9:15 am         Application & Maintenance of

                                      Molded Case Circuit Breakers

                                      EATON Electrical

                                      Dave Durocher

9:15 am – 9:30 am         Break

9:30 am – 10:15 am       Arc Flash

                                      ELECTRO SWITCH

                                      Gus Nasrallah

10:15 am – 10:45 am     Marion 8200 Electrical Upgrade

                                      Prairie Mines & Royalty – Paintearth Mine

                                      Lionel Weseen

10:45 am – 11:00 am     Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm     Maintenance Scheduling

                                      MAGNA IV Engineering

                                      John Bunton

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm       Lunch

1:00 pm – 1:50 pm         Group Discussion

1:50 pm – 2:00 pm         Break

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm         Selecting Motor Controls for

                                      Mining Process Torque Demands

                                      TMEIC

                                      Bill Horvath

3:00 pm – 3:10 pm         Break

3:10 pm – 4:00 pm         Ups and Downs of LED Illumination in

                                      Surface Mining Applications

                                      Phoenix Products Company Inc.

                                      Tom Feldhusen

4:00 pm – 4:10 pm         Break

4:10 pm – 5:00 pm         Yaskawa Drives

                                      DYKMAN Electrical Inc.

                                      Bruce Reeves

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm         Hospitality room

May 31^st                        Friday

8:00 am – 9:30 am         Summary of group discussions

9:30 am – 9:45 am         Break

9:45 am – 10:15 am       480 volt and 600 volt GFCI

                                      Ed Barnett – North American Coal

                                      Jeff Glenney – Littelfuse-Startco

10:15 am – 10:45 am    ‘Shock Stop’

                                      DD Tech

                                      Shawna Green

10:45 am – 10:50 am     Break

10:50 am – 11:45 am     Draglines – Health Monitoring and

                                      Changing Operator Behavior

                                      Mineware

                                      Greg Ladewig & Stephen Lochner

11:45 am – 12:00 pm     Closing                                     

1:00 pm                         Steering Committee Meeting

Accommodations

Renaissance Denver Hotel

Denver, CO 80207

 GROUP DISCUSSIONS

GROUP 1 (Monte Wilke)                             GROUP 2 (Bill Horvath)

GROUP 3 (Rick Crouse)                              GROUP 4 (Aric Proskurniak)

GROUP 5 (Nate Montgomery)                    GROUP 6 (Sundhar Srimvasan)

GROUP 7 (Joshua McLaughlin)                 GROUP 8 (Rob Boksteyn)

Papers