WHO WAS AT THE SHOW?
A director of a small-to-medium sized company, probably from Auckland, looking to automate his plant (or enhance its automation) and improve control.
That’s the profile of the average visitor to last November’s Control ’98 expo in Auckland. An analysis of the nearly 1,200 registered visitors to the show indicates the largest proportion of visitors were managing directors/partners /principals, (18%) followed by electronic/electrical engineers (13%).
More than 70% of the visitors were decision makers, with authority to purchase (53%) and authority to specify (20%). Some 76% were from Auckland.
The vast majority of the visitors indicated their main interests lay in automation and control (75% and 76% respectively). Instrumentation, (61%) measurement (48%), design (44%) and components (43%) were the next most popular areas of interest.
Other interest areas included pneumatics (32%), robotics (32%) and quality assurance (22%).
Most of the visitors represented organisations with 1 - 10 employees (43%) while 27% had more than 100 employees.
Control ’98 also marked the introduction of a number of IMC awards
for significant projects and developments in the process control industry.
They will be a regular feature at future events.
| AWARD | RECIPIENT | PRESENTERS |
| National Certificate, Industrial Measurement and Control | Jeroen Slagter
NZ Refining Company |
Marilyn Brady, CEO
ETITO Simon White Waikato Polytech |
| Most Significant Fieldbus Installation | Ian Steele
Anchor Products DeviceNet, Te Rapa |
Jim Neville
Vice-President IMC |
| Biggest Product
(David Lange Big-Boy Award) |
Doug Teys
W.A.Fisher Masoneilan Valve |
Brett Rutledge |
| NZ Developed Control Software | Bruce Jarvis
Fisher and Paykel GRASP Programming Software |
Jim Neville
Vice President IMC |
| Most Innovative Product | David Dickey
Auckland Valve & Fitting Whitey Pneumatic Switching Valve System |
Brett Rutledge |
| Best Stand Design | Allan Jaffe
Axiom Data Logging Systems |
Brett Rutledge
Brent Fernandez IMC President |
| Fashion Award | Roy Buchanan
Technical and Engineering Systems Ltd |
Marguerite Pittman
Fieldbus Foundation |
| Connector Systems Excellence Award For Innovation in Automation | Peter Reiber
Fisher and Paykel, PML |
Brian Gurr
Managing Director Connector Systems Ltd. |
| REGISTERED VISITORS CAME FROM: | |
| Overseas | 1.09% |
| Northland | 1.51% |
| Auckland | 76.34% |
| Waikato | 8.86% |
| Coromandel | 0.33% |
| Bay of Plenty | 4.43% |
| Taupo/Turangi | 0.92% |
| Hawkes Bay | 0.50% |
| Taranaki | 2.51% |
| King Country/Manawatu | 0.84% |
| Wellington | 1.67% |
| South Island | 1.00% |
| 100.00% | |
| THEIR JOB FUNCTIONS WERE: | |
| Managing Director / Partner / Principal | 18.65% |
| Technical / Works / Production Director | 5.10% |
| General Manager / Company Secretary | 3.18% |
| Chief Engineer | 1.67% |
| Production / Plant Manufacturing Manager | 2.76% |
| Chief Designer / Design Manager | 1.84% |
| R & D Engineer | 3.51% |
| Consultant | 4.77% |
| Production Engineer | 3.18% |
| Design Engineer | 6.19% |
| Plant Maintenance / Works Engineer | 7.27% |
| Project Development Engineer | 7.44% |
| Instrument Control Engineer | 6.77% |
| Electronic / Electrical Engineer | 13.29% |
| Buyer / Purchaser | 1.25% |
| Sales / Marketing | 9.53% |
| Other Occupation | 3.60% |
| TOTAL | 100.00% |
| THEY REGISTERED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS: | |
| Automation | 75.23% |
| Components | 43.26% |
| Control | 76.49% |
| Design | 44.18% |
| Instrumentation | 61.42% |
| Measurement | 48.70% |
| Pneumatics | 32.38% |
| Quality Assurance | 22.26% |
| Robotics | 32.38% |
| Other Technologies | 2.76% |
| THEY HAD THE FOLLOWING AUTHORITY: | |
| Visitors with Authority to Purchase | 53.26% |
| Visitors with Authority to Specify | 20.32% |
| Visitors with Authority to Recommend | 20.99% |
| Visitors with No Authority | 5.43% |
| TOTAL | 100.00% |
| NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN THEIR ORGANISATIONS WAS: | |
| 1 to 10 Employees | 43.65% |
| 11 to 25 Employees | 12.71% |
| 26 to 50 Employees | 9.95% |
| 51 to 100 Employees | 6.02% |
| Over 100 Employees | 27.68% |
| TOTAL | 100.00% |