Datumax Engineered Solutions

Paul Fisher, Design Consultant

Plant &ProcessOptimisation

With over thirty years’ experience overhauling, designing and installing heavy plant on mining and industrial sites, Paul can design the upgrades, create the installation procedures and produce a maintenance pathway to stop the same problems from recurring.

Talk to Paul about your plant See services

Based in North Tasmania. Working across Tasmania and Australia-wide.

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Input, sun gear
120 rpm
Output, carrier
32.7 rpm
Reduction
3.67 : 1

Paul's experience includes work for

  • CAMCO Engineering
  • BHP
  • Rio Tinto
  • Fortescue
  • Chevron
  • Synergy
  • Western Power
  • AGL
  • INPEX

Boots on the ground first. Then the drawing board.

Paul didn't learn machines from a screen. Thirty years on mining and industrial sites taught him how heavy plant really wears, where it fails, and how the people who run it actually use it. Now he designs with that knowledge.

Starting as an apprentice fitter and turner in an industrial breakdown and repair engineering workshop, Paul spent 30 years in mine and industrial construction, heavy equipment repairs and breakdowns, working his way up to site supervisor and project manager. When a process failed and nobody could work out why, Paul was the one they called.

Having worked a dual role as in-house designer and site supervisor for 15 years, Paul understands how your plant is supposed to work on paper, and how it works in the real world. That rare mix of hands-on experience and design skill means his designs are made to be manufactured, installed, maintained and lived with, not just to look right in a model.

Datumax is the result: practical engineering design from someone who has been on the other end of it.

30
years in mine-site construction, heavy equipment and breakdowns
2
trades: fitter and turner
1
point of contact. You deal with Paul from start to finish

What Datumax does

From a worn part with no drawing to a full plant upgrade. If you work with plant equipment, this is for you.

Capture what's there

Measure the real thing, not a drawing that's decades out of date.

  • 3D scanning
  • Reverse engineering
  • Plant inspection

Rotating Equipment Inspections

Mechanical inspections of gearboxes, conveyors, drivetrains, hydraulics and crushers, before small faults become outages.

Design what's needed

Designs that work in the workshop and on site, not just on screen.

  • Mechanical design and 3D CAD
  • Industrial design
  • Process design
  • Manufacture and modification design

Make it run better

Fix the root cause so the same breakdown doesn't keep coming back.

  • Plant and process optimisation
  • Maintenance and reliability
  • Shutdown and project planning
See all 11 services What each one involves and what you get at the end.

How a job runs

No account managers or hand-offs. You deal with Paul from the first email to the final drawing.

  1. 1

    Tell Paul what's going on

    Call 0405 830 744 or email paul.fisher@datumax.com.au with a description and a few photos. A quick chat usually sorts out whether it's a fit.

  2. 2

    Measure and inspect

    Site inspection and 3D scanning anywhere in Australia, or working from your photos, drawings and measurements.

  3. 3

    Design and drawings

    3D models and manufacture-ready drawings, reviewed with you before anything gets cut.

  4. 4

    Build and install support

    Answers for your manufacturer, and changes if site conditions don't match the plan.

Where Paul works

Based in North Tasmania and working right across the state. Site inspections, scanning and measuring can be arranged anywhere in Australia, and design work can be done remotely from your photos, drawings, measurements or scan data.

North West Coast

  • Burnie
  • Devonport
  • Ulverstone
  • Penguin
  • Wynyard
  • Smithton

Launceston and the Tamar

  • Launceston
  • George Town
  • Bell Bay
  • Deloraine

West Coast

  • Queenstown
  • Rosebery
  • Zeehan
  • Savage River

Hobart and the south

  • Hobart
  • Bridgewater
  • Huonville

All of Tasmania

Site work anywhere in the state, from mine sites and processing plants to workshops and wind farms.

Australia-wide

Site inspections and scanning can be arranged in any state. Design, reverse engineering and drawings can also be done remotely. Send the details and Paul will tell you what he needs.

Got a machine that keeps breaking?

Send Paul the details. You'll get a straight answer on what can be done and what it will take.

Contact Paul Call 0405 830 744 paul.fisher@datumax.com.au