Thirty-two customers from the Middle East region attended the first ever conference held by GE Energy’s optimisation and control business. 

The conference held for Bently Nevada product users took place recently at the Shangri-La Hotel in Dubai. It included a pre-conference workshop, “How to Maximise Your Value from System 1.” A GE technology day focused on optimisation software.  Customers from multiple industries attended the conference, which GE plans to expand and make an annual event in this region.
Guest speakers at the event included numerous members of management from GE Energy’s optimisation and control headquarters in Minden, Nev, US, including the general manager of optimisation and diagnostic software, the general manager of marketing and commercial operations and optimisation software product line managers as well as the regional leadership team for Africa, India, and the Middle East.
GE Energy’s Bently Nevada machinery protection and condition-monitoring systems have been in use for 50 years. Users have been able to protect their machinery and diagnose existing or potential problems using hardware and software, integrating these products into predictive, condition-based maintenance programmes. Many companies in the Middle East have standardised on Bently Nevada technologies for machinery protection; the user base has spread across numerous industries and covers a wide breadth of both rotating and non-rotating machinery.
Asset condition monitoring solutions range from portable, walk-around programmes, essential-machinery periodic monitoring and even online continuous monitoring for critical machinery monitoring and protection.