Martec specialises in condition assessment and reliability enhancement technologies for medium voltage and high voltage power electrical equipment
Written by Chris Farnell & Produced by Isaac Frempong
According to Martec, designing electrical insulation systems with both reliability and longevity is less a science than a black art. If this is true, Martec is quite possibly the arch dark mage. It used to be that companies looking to avoid the costs of downtime, repairs and inefficient systems used to have to resort to preventative maintenance, which brought its own costs and problems. But through the use of the latest technology, Martec is able to provide an alternative solution.
The company has specialist knowledge in the field of Insulation Engineering, and is able to provide consulting services on design, costing, manufacture and testing of winding wire, insulation materials and systems, coils and windings for LV, MC and HV ac and dc electrical machines. It specialises in providing solutions that are low cost, and long life.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
On top of its consulting service, Martec also supplies technical products and services in fields that include not just the black arts of Insulation Engineering, but also Condition Assessment, Condition Monitoring, and Reliability Enhancement for all types of medium and high voltage electrical equipment. The company also has expertise in the field of Predictive Maintenance, a method which employs sensitive online measuring apparatus in conjunction with data trending techniques to detect the very earliest stages of machine deterioration. As well as all this, Martec has expertise in Predictive Diagnostics and Prognostics, where the use of continuous online measurement of a machine’s key parameters and dynamics, combined with advanced preprogrammed data processing and algorithms, allow the user to determine a machine’s condition in the present and future.
The company is a small, tight team, headed up by principal technical consultant Mario Kuisis, who has almost 25 years of experience with real world electrical insulation engineering. He is backed up by James Cowling and John Sherriff in their back office
facility in Randburg, South Africa, where the whole operation is overseen by Cyril Biddlecombe, a man with 50 years’ experience in the business.
Keeping the team small enables the company to offer a more personal service to each of its customers from one of its highly knowledgeable and motivated number. Yet Martec is a company that understands the big business environment, and the needs and issues faced by those who work in it.
INDEPENDENCE
The company is fiercely independent, possessing no affiliation with any other organisation in the electrical equipment manufacturing or repair industries other than necessary in the normal course of its business.
However, Martec does have exclusive representation of a number of global market leading companies from around the world, including Pax Diagnostics for its sweep-frequency and frequency-domain spectroscopy equipment, Morgan Schaffer for its transformer oil DGA equipment and testing services, and ultrasonic detectors for predictive maintenance and leak detection from SDT International.
These companies and more allow Martec to present a comprehensive package of the very best products available. The future is looking bright for this small, but extremely able company.
FACTS AT A GLANCE
COMPANY NAME: Martec PTY LTD
MD: James Cowling
OPERATIONS: Condition assessment and reliability enhancement technologies
for medium voltage and high voltage power electrical equipment
EMPLOYEES: 110
HEAD OFFICE: Randburg, South Africa
www.martec.co.za
Edited by Ian Armitage
View Digital Corporate Profile of Martec in Manufacturing Digital December 2009