AEMT News

UPDATE FROM THE AEMT SECRETARY

Thomas Marks shares the latest news from the Association.

WHILE WRITING THIS UPDATE, WE ARE WRAPPING UP the organisation of our 76th AGM, which will have taken place by the time you read this – on 24 June at Silverstone. We committed to hosting the AGM at a venue this year instead of the online alternative we have all been saturated by in the last year! It feels wonderful to be out and about again, albeit with restrictions still in place until mid-July.

At the AGM, we will have welcomed our new honorary President, Shaun Sutton of Central Group, Merseyside. After four years with an associate at the helm, it will be refreshing to have a full member back in the chair. Dave Hawley of ABB chose an extraordinary year to be President, but it has not stopped him from pushing the AEMT in a positive direction for the future, and he leaves a strong legacy for Shaun to pick up on. We will publish more on this after the AGM.

Now we are halfway through 2021 and 15 months into the pandemic, it is a relief to see the AEMT’s books looking much stronger compared to this time last year. The online training courses led by Karl Metcalfe have been an enormous success. Not only that, but we have also completed six dedicated seminars introducing our industry: The Bitesize guide to Electric Motors. The series focused on identifying a motor, dismantling and fault finding, following the repair standard, introducing rewinding, and an introduction to assembly and testing. The full course will soon be available on the AEMT website, exclusively for members.

Looking forward, I trust you are all thinking hard about your nominations for the AEMT Awards! They return this year on the 18 November. Make sure your nominations are submitted by Friday, 10 September. As a critical sector, the service/repair industry was needed to keep our infrastructure running, as we all huddled indoors away from the pesky virus. We look forward to judging the entries this year and hearing of these experiences. We have also introduced a new category for Diversity in Engineering, awarded to any organisation, company, individual or team that has delivered a specific scheme, project, or initiative, or can demonstrate inclusive participation in their everyday behaviour that significantly contributes to the enhancement of equality, diversity, and inclusion at work.

If you’ve any comments or suggestions on what you would like to see from the AEMT, please don’t hesitate to contact us, one of the council members or the President. You can email me at thomas@aemt.co.uk or call +44 (0)1904 674 899.

AEMT AND BPMA SIGN MUTUAL CO-OPERATION AGREEMENT

Dave Hawley, AEMT President

Richard Harden, BPMA President

THE ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICAL AND Mechanical Trades (AEMT) and the British Pump Manufacturers’ Association (BPMA) and have announced the recent signing of a Mutual Co-operation Agreement.

The agreement covers a range of collaborative ideas and opportunities, primarily geared around the development of improved skills and enhanced technology understanding across the industrial and engineering arena. It will allow both parties to explore additional content to strengthen their existing range of training courses. Working on possible compliance and legislative related issues and other factors within the repair and maintenance of pumps and motors will also form a key part of the arrangement.

Commenting on the agreement, Dave Hawley, AEMT President said: “There are clear synergies between our two organisations, including some cross-over of membership, and so I am thrilled to have this agreement in place and excited by the potential activities that the collaboration could deliver.”

Echoing this viewpoint, Richard Harden, BPMA President added: “Our two associations, have been serving the engineering arena for many years and have developed vast experience in their respective disciplines. But by forging closer links and a more collaborative approach to certain activities, we can better harvest that expertise for mutual benefit and reward.”