WMEA November Conference 2013
The next WMEA conference will be held:
November 20th – 22nd, 2013
Marriott Pyramid North
5151 San Francisco Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
November 20th Wednesday
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Board Meeting
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Registration / Hospitality Room
November 21st Thursday
7:00 am – 8:00 am Registration
8:00 am – 8:15 am Opening remarks
8:15 am – 9:15 am Willbros Engineering (US) LLC
Grounding Theory and Application to
Mining Operations
Brett Board, P.E.
9:15 am – 9:30 am Break
9:30 am – 10:15 am What Standards Don’t Tell You: Mining Cable
Standards and Cable Design
Steve Wetzel – General Cable
10:15 am – 10:45 am EATON Power Distribution Assemblies Trailer
Mike Foley – EATON Electrical
10:45 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Open Microphone
(Miners share ideas, problems, solutions, etc.)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Group Discussion
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Break
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm PGR 8800 ARC Flash Relay
Jeff Glenney – Littelfuse STARTCO
3:00 pm – 3:10 pm Break
3:10 pm – 4:00 pm Magnetic Actuated Vacuum Interrupter Technology
Troy Mickelsen – Line Power Manufacturing
4:00 pm – 4:10 pm Break
4:10 pm – 5:00 pm Arc Flash Compliance Case Studies
Dave Durocher – EATON Electrical
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Hospitality room
November 22nd Friday
8:00 am – 9:30 am Summary of group discussions
9:30 am – 9:45 am Break
9:45 am – 10:15 am Shovel Upgrade
Philip Granger – Cloud Peak / Flanders
10:15 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am Application of LED Lighting in Mining
Tim Gross – Eaton Crouse-Hinds
11:00 am – 11:15 am Break
11:15 am – 11:45 am Benefits of using a NETA Certified Company
Craig Archer – Western Electrical Services
11:45 am – 12:00 pm Closing
1:00 pm Steering Committee Meeting
Marriott Pyramid North
5151 San Francisco Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
GROUP DISCUSSIONS
GROUP 1 (Monte Wilke) GROUP 5 (Ed Barnett)
GROUP 2 (Rob Marnell) GROUP 6 (Jason Praus)
GROUP 3 (Mark Perkins) GROUP 7 (Woody Vowell)
GROUP 4 (Kyle Martin) GROUP 8 (George Finley)
Papers
Arc Flash Compliance Mining & Minerals – Eaton – Nov 13
Arc Flash Relay – PGR-8800 — Littelfuse – Nov 13
Grounding Theory for Mining – Willbros – Nov 13
LED Lighting Technology – Eaton – Nov 13
Magnetically Actuated Vacuum Interrupter – Line Power – Nov 13
Mine Cable – What Standards Don’t Tell You – General Cable – Nov 2013
Shovel Upgrade – Cloud Peak – Nov 13
Western Mining Electrical Association 2012
Start date: 11/20/2013
End date: 11/22/2013