Riding all the way to a quiet Friday tipple N E W S BE IN TO WIN FIVE DOZEN BOTTLES www.engineeringnews.co.nz 13 for all promising inventors to take their ideas to the next level,” Says Mr Carr. The 2017 Innovation Award winners were: Fieldays Grassroots Prototype Award: My Apiary for MyApiary HiveMonitor. The novel Bee Management System allows bees to be well fed through winter while saving bee keepers time, travel and money. Fieldays Established Prototype Awar: Taege Engineering with Power Discs. Rotating discs result in superior tilling of ground prior to drilling or planting, saving time and effort when the ground is unsuitable for traditional discing. Fieldays Innovation Launch NZ Highly Commended Award: StockX for Prime Stock Platform. Judges felt StockX have done an amazing job, with the capacity to change the industry whilst achieving a high level of collaboration. The innovation offers a level of independence and transparency to the industry with the judges feeling that this innovation could be ground breaking. Fieldays Innovations Launch NZ Award: Hydratorq with BioFume Ozone. Judges said this innovation has applications across multiple agricultural sectors. The company has taken some older technology and integrated it into a system that has shown some early promise of delivery of significant benefit to the industry. Their delivery mechanism allows ozone utilisation in different agricultural areas including cleaning, bacterial management and bleaching. This minimises the use of chemicals and reduces costs. Judges were confident applications across dairy, viticulture and horticulture will likely see benefits from this innovation. Always popular, the Innovation Centre once again drew a large number of visitors. There was a hive of activity as visitors all looked for a first glimpse at the agricultural sector’s leading innovations. SPONSORED AWARD WINNERS: Vodafone Innovation Technology Award: MyApiary with HiveMonitor Locus Research Innovation Award: Hydratorq with BioFume Origin Innovation IP Award: Spectrum Innovations with the M6 13 Auto Sawmill Tompkins Wake IP and Commercialisation Award: MyApiary with HiveMonitor Callaghan Innovation Partnership & Collaboration Award: MyApiary with HiveMonitor filed onto a couple of buses after the networking event and headed off to the ‘Adrenalin filled – Off Road NZ’ venue, where we had the option to take a 4X4 truck ride over extreme terrain or the ultimate thrill, strapping ourselves in for a Jet Sprint ride on their fully flood lit lake, jet sprint course. There was also options to buy additional rides or just take it easy and sit around the camp fire and enjoy catching up with everyone. We all met up at the adjacent, warm and fully covered Native Bush Camp hut for a sumptuous, catered meal and drinks before piling back into the coaches and heading back to the Novotel. Everyone involved with vibration analysis, condition monitoring and reliability improvement has a very important role – but it is a challenging role. So much is at stake with the high cost of downtime, equipment replacement costs, and the potential safety risks. The future of the business can hinge on the reliability achieved by this special group of people. Yet detecting, diagnosing, and preventing these faults takes knowledge, skill and experience. This is where the conference steps in and sheds some light on the new technologies and case studies of experiences in the field, we had a session for the managers on Awareness Day with some hands-on practical sessions for those wanting to get up to date with the latest techniques and equipment from the variety of trade stands that you can see on ours Sponsors page. The main conference on the Tuesday and Wednesday had 2 streams which consisted of papers that covered topics such as bearing defects, gear tooth failure and motor testing, as well as infrared thermography, alignment and precision, Lubrication and RCA. If you have a thirst for knowledge, enjoy the latest movie from a previous conference which you can find here on our website www.vanz.org.nz and learn firsthand why you should attend the next conference, stay tuned for more info and hope to see you there! The votes are in and ‘Riding’ (pictured) came out on top, just tipping ‘Racing’ to the checkered flag. Five dozen Speights are going to both teams from Pumpn and the University of Auckland but Pumpn from the Waikato will have something extra in the parcel from Machineryseller and Engineering News. Get you entries in now for the next ‘Machineryseller in Your Lunch Room Competition’ and taste the success too. SEND A PHOTO OF THE TEAM... 'MACHINERYSELLER IN YOUR LUNCH ROOM COMPETITION' Be creative, extra points for innovation/ humour. We want to see someone reading Machineryseller (MS) but the rest is up to your creative genius. We will feature the best photo in MS and NZEN every month so don't hold back - get snapping. Send your photos to greg@hayleymedia.com The marketplace for engineering machinery
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