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Green warehousing logistics

2nd Quarter 2014 News & events

The theme for this year’s PneuDrive Challenge is green warehousing logistics.

SEW-Eurodrive marketing and communications manager, Rene Rose explains: “Students have to identify and analyse specific problems relating to retrieval, conveying, placement, packing, palletising and loading within a warehouse and design a solution. They have to demonstrate how their design could improve the problem, as well as how it has taken the environment into consideration.”

Pneumax managing director, Adrian Buddingh notes that there are products from both Pneumax and SEW-Eurodrive that the students can use when designing their solution. “For each of the areas of warehousing there are suitable products from Pneumax and SEW-Eurodrive that will assist.”

Application engineer, Theuns Greyvenstein demonstrates equipment to students at the UJ roadshow.
Application engineer, Theuns Greyvenstein demonstrates equipment to students at the UJ roadshow.

In February and March roadshows held at the competing universities provided valuable information about the topic and products available. From March to August there will be a series of workshops and mentoring sessions, and by mid-October final submissions must be in. Judging will take place in November and the winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

The aim of the PneuDrive competition is to provide mechanical, electrical and mechatronic engineering students with the opportunity to combine engineering theory with the latest drive engineering and pneumatics technology, while solving business problems in a controlled environment where they gain real world experience. The following universities have confirmed their participation in this year’s competition: University of Johannesburg, Tshwane University of Technology, University of the Witwatersrand, Stellenbosch University and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.

For more information contact Renee Rose, SEW-Eurodrive, +27 (0)11 248 7000, rrose@sew.co.za, www.sew.co.za



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