Paul-Gerd Voigt
Scharnhorststr. 7, D-59755 Arnsberg.

Tele:0049-(0)2932-23780, Fax: 0049-(0)2932-83950
Email: voigt.pg@wirerope.de

Television interview with WDR about Steel Wire Ropes
Wire Rope Consultant – Drahtseil Beratungen
PGV-Rope-Expert - Paul-Gerd Voigt
Seminars – Presentations - Documentations
 

Topics see: Handbook Steel Wire Ropes Part 1 to 13

 

 

Publications & Presentations: Heavy Ropery Thyssen Draht A.G. 1972, Crane Ropes 1981, Ropes for the Offshore Industry (Houston, Copenhagen 1981, Paris 1984, Singapore 1996, EDV-Calculation Design & Plotting of Wire Rope Constructions 1980. Mine Hoist (Winding) Wire Ropes (Underground Mining) 1980, CSSR 1982, Bergbaumuseum Bochum 1983, Australia 1984, Wire Rope End-Connections TU Karlsruhe 1982, Improvements of Manufacturing of Wire Ropes (Drahtwelt 82/7), 150 Years of Wire Ropes, TU-Stuttgart 1984, Modern Wire Rope Constructions 1985, Fundamental Wire Rope Research 1985,OIPEEC High-Strength Wire Ropes, Wire Rope Production Stirling 1986, Wire Ropes for Surface Mining, Draglines, Birmingham, USA, 1984, Australia 1984, Mining Ropes, Moscow 1986, China Beijing 1986. Seminar for Mining Engineers 1986, Wire Rope Application Areas, TSAG Duisburg 1987, Modern Wire Rope Constructions, Wire Rope Properties, Franz List Universität Dresden, 1988, Offshore Rope Anchoring USA 1997, 1999. Calculation & Design of Steel Wire Ropes, Manufacturing influences, Research & Development, RWIA, USA. Nov. 2002 FSA, Bad Iburg Germany, Quality of Steel Wire Ropes. Sept 2003 Quality of Steel Wire Ropes, achieved from Calculation, Rope Design, Material, Manufacturing, Lenzburg, Switzerland, OIPEEC-Meeting. 2006 OIPEEC Conference, Athens, Greece: Designing Wire Rope, Design Data collected from test results and field experience. Designing high quality steel wire ropes.

                   Job Experience in Steel Wire Ropes

Born 1934

1958/59

Antioch College Yellow Springs Ohio

Student

1960

Wire Rope Corp. Of America, USA

Work-Student

1960-63

Drahtseilwerke Wohlfahrt, Germany

Assistant Plant Manager

1960-92

Wire Rope Technical Board (Germany)

Member of Technical Board

1963-68

Drahtseilwerke Wohlfahrt, Germany

Plant Manager, Handlungsvollmacht

1963-68

Drahtseilwerke Wohlfahrt, Germany

Prokurist

1966-68

Drahtseilwerke Wohlfahrt & techn. Consultant Hoesch Drahtseilwerke

Plant & Engineering Manager, Prokurist

1968-72

Westfälische Union Plant Neheim

Plant & Engineering Manager
Technical Co-ordination of 4 Roperies

1965-96

ISO-Standardisation

German Representative of ISO TC 96, TC105 & TC82

1972-76

Greening-Donald, Ont. Canada

Asst. General Manager

1976-80

Thyssen Draht AG,

Plant Gelsenkirchen

Plant & Engineering Manager,

Design of the New Wire Rope Plant. 200 t Closing Machine. New Technologies for rope machinery. Worlds first Computer Program for Designing & Plotting of Wire Rope Construction.

1980 to

DIN-Standards Organisation

Chairman since 1989

1989-

European Standard Organisation EN

German Representative

1972-88

API-Standard

Member

1976-95

EWRIS

Member of Technical Working Group & from 1990 on Chairman

1976-95

EWRIS/WRTB

Member of Working Group (Chairman)

1978

VDI Guide Line

Member

1980-88

Thyssen Draht AG., Gelsenkirchen

Engineering & Plant Manager

 

Patents

Three Layer Oval Strand Rope cushioned with high Service Life, Low Rotation Rope

 

Developments

8-lstrabd Ropes for Draglines,
Polyamide cushioned Cores

1988-92

Drahtseilwerke Saar, CASAR

Managing Director

1992-95

Vereinigte Drahtseilwerke, VDW

Managing Director

1996 to

Consultancy

For well Known Wire Rope Companies internationally.

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