Stay Clean And Safe With Kärcher

There are many financial benefits to investing in the right kit to keep your workshop floors safe and clean. Learning how to use that equipment correctly will save time and expense, give the best possible cleaning results, and keep floors safe and instantly re-usable. (Read More)

Armacell Awarded Building Confidence Accreditation

Flexible thermal and acoustic insulation producer, Armacell UK Ltd, has become the latest construction products manufacturer to achieve the prestigious BuildingConfidence accreditation.

The accreditation followed a rigorous audit process to check that the company meets the scheme’s requirements in a number of key areas, including: product integrity, health & safety, (Read More) 

Denso Tape Protects Bluebell Rail Wheel Assemblies

The well-known, volunteer-run, Bluebell Line was the UK’s first preserved standard gauge passenger railway, re-opening part of the Lewes to East Grinstead line of the old London Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1960.

Maintaining the line’s locomotives, coaches and signalling systems is carried out at its Sheffield Park Station. (Read More)

Dupont O-Rings Increase Sealing Performance For Processing Applications

Kalrez® Spectrum™ perfluoroelastomer O-rings from the DuPont™ Performance Elastomers range have been successfully used to minimise the risk of premature seals failure, increase MTBF times and significantly reduce costly downtime for hydraulic clamping systems. (Read More)

DuPont Introduces A New Cleaning Agent With Outstanding Environmental Profile

Stevenage, United Kingdom, 11th March 2013. – Based on new fluorinated chemistry developed by DuPont under its brand name DuPont™ Vertrel®, a new range of fluids allows users with special applications, including precision cleaning, heat transfer (cooling) and carrier fluid (Read More) 

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty Takes Off with Three Year Planned Maintenance Service Contract from ICS Cool Energy Ltd

Safran, an international high-technology group, operates worldwide with more than 60,000 employees.

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty is an integral part of the Safran group’s landing systems integration capability and is a world leader in the design, manufacture and support of landing gear systems. (Read More)

Calibrating Smart Instruments

A modern transmitter is advertised as being smart and extremely accurate and sometimes sales people tell you they don’t need to be calibrated at all because they are so “smart”. So why would you calibrate them?

First of all, the output protocol of (Read More)

Pailton Steers A New Course With Development Of Wiper Systems

Creation’s Zephyr MRV programme is a range of new radical design protected vehicle platforms that offer high survivability whilst being multi-purpose thus providing total flexibility.

The brief was originally to design (Read More) 

The Workload Of A Modern Calibration Laboratory Has Placed Ever Greater Demands On The Calibration Source

Both in terms of functionality and the combination of voltage, current and frequency required to calibrate today’s diverse range of instruments.

This need for high voltage and (Read More) 

Fluke free gift for CNX wireless measurement!

Fluke’s 65th anniversary - CNX Wireless System promotion

Fluke, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, is celebrating its 65th anniversary by offering special promotions. When purchased during April and May 2013, Fluke (UK) is offering customers buying two of its latest (Read More) 

Analysis Services Driven By Quality And Experience

Fluid and debris analysis services are a key tool for preventative monitoring and are a recommended aspect of most maintenance procedures: the data generated can give a clear indication of the equipment’s condition and detect potential failures. (Read More)

Testo Kits You Out For Safety

Health and safety considerations, the workplace environment and the welfare of employees are rightly a high priority for any responsible employer; as such it makes clear sense to acquire the best type of compact and all embracing Workplace Welfare Kits from the experts Testo. (Read More)

Fluke launches Preventive Maintenance platform

Analysing and Troubleshooting – Always one step ahead!

Fluke, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, has launched a Preventive Maintenance platform on its web site to help industrial maintenance personnel to maximise plant uptime and minimise downtime. (Read More) 

Get Smart, Go Optical

Advanced, multi-parameter condition monitoring systems for extreme harsh-environment applications

Continuous health monitoring is recognised as an essential tool to reduce the cost of ownership of critical assets. Using such monitoring to inform a condition based operating and maintenance regime provides (Read More) 

Vibration Analysis- Thermal Imaging-Ultrasonic Testing

Eastway Technical was established in 2001 and since then has been improving machine reliability and energy efficiency for our clients in Ireland and the UK with great success.

Due to our specialist range of services our clients can benefit by engaging with one supplier, saving costs, increasing accountability and therefore improving overall plant performance. (Read More)

FLIR Thermal Imaging Adds Value To NDT Services

For Belmont NDT and Quality Services, the ability to provide its customers with the most accurate assessment of plant health and efficiency relies on a range of technologies.  For this reason, this Leeds based company knew its offering to industry was not complete without thermal imaging.  (Read More)

Supporting The Wright Technology

Sir George Cayley could not achieve powered flight in his lifetime as some thirty years would elapse before the combustion engine driven motor car would be invented.

 The first car appeared in 1885 but still no suitable engine was readily available for the Wright Flyer in 1903, however the technology was there so (Read More)

Babcock Wanson Launches New Water Treatment Service For Coil Boilers

Babcock Wanson UK, a leading manufacturer of Steam Generators, has launched a new Water Treatment Service backed-up with a five year corrosion warranty on the boiler coil.

In the unlikely event of feed water deficiencies causing the coil to corrode  (Read More)

BOILER HOUSE CLEANING

BVC have completed a project for a food manufacturer, supplying and installing a central vacuum cleaning system within a boiler house.

The system, designed for 1 person using 51 mm hose and tools to carry out essential housekeeping duties throughout the boiler house and bulk removal of sand from the boiler. (Read More)

All CERTUSS Steam Generators are type tested according to European Pressure Equipment Guideline DGRL 97/23/EG.

CERTUSS offer seven construction groups within their range of fossil fuel Generators with outputs ranging from 80kg/hr to 2000kg/hr and operating pressures of up to 32 Bar G. (Read More)

New Electric Boiler Range Launched

Atlantic Boilers of Lancashire have supplied condensing and highly efficient boilerplant to many public and private sector buildings, housing developments, industrial and commercial buildings for over 30 years. (Read More) 

G.P. Burners (CIB) Ltd Can Now Offer Remote Access To All Their P.L.C. Controlled Burners

From the Swindon headquarters access via modem link is a standard feature of the new TOUCHSCREEN CONTROLLER for monitoring and diagnostic purposes. (Read More) 

Lanemark Process Gas Burner Systems Help JCB Optimise Manufacturing Quality

Gas process air burner technology from Lanemark International is now playing a key role in the heating of two painting lines installed at JCB Heavy Products in Uttoxeter, where the company manufactures tracked and wheeled excavators from 11 to 46 tonnes. (Read More) 

Biogas & Waste Gas Combustion

Increasing fuel prices, pressure to reduce greenhouse emissions and a need to exhibit Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are driving more and more end-users to invest in technologies that use waste products to generate bio and off-gases. (Read More) 

KING’S BOILERS TAKE THE HIGH ROAD

King’s Boiler Hire were contacted in December 2012 by SSE (Scottish & Southern Energy).

SSE had been trying to source a large, high pressure steam boiler with a superheater for their Peterhead Power Station in Scotland without success, until they called King’s Boiler Hire.
Kings had two 15,875 kg/hr (35,000 lbs/hr) units (Read More)

Byworth Boilers Hire Fleet Leads The Way

Byworth Boilers, the country’s leading independent manufacturer of steam and hot water boiler services, was one of the first companies to recognise the potential of providing a boiler hire service.

That was over 30 years ago. Today Byworth has a fleet of over 100 modern mobile, de-mountable, static and containerised boilers available for long or short term hire. (Read More) 

SAACKE help the Award winning Harveys Brewery

When your product, reputation and future prosperity depend on the quality of steam, then you make absolutely sure that you find the very best solution. And that’s exactly what Harveys of Lewes did when they called on SAACKE to improve the operation of their boiler plant. (Read More) 

Halifax Fan Ltd Reports Two Record Years.

While the global economy is still struggling and major UK high street chains are failing, one Yorkshire based traditional engineering company reports two bumper years.

Halifax Fan Ltd, based in Brighouse enjoyed sales growth of 30% in 2000/11 and followed that up with a record 43% growth over the last twelve months. (Read More) 

X-Rite Pantone ushers in digital era of colour and appearance management for automakers and their suppliers

Company demonstrates powerful new tools for key automotive players recently at Automotive Innovation Day and for media covering the Geneva International Motor Show. (Read More) 

Vortex FP control panels monitor gas detectors in Zone 1 hazardous areas

Compact model now available for tight spaces where other flameproof panels may not fit

Crowcon’s new Vortex FP Compact control panel increases the flexibility of its flameproof product range. Like the existing Vortex FP, the FP Compact is specifically designed to monitor toxic and flammable gas detectors (Read More)

Macdonald Humfrey Fuel Rod Loader And ‘Strongback’ Helps Springfields Re-Commission LWR Nuclear Plant

MacDonald Humfrey Automation (MHA) has completed a contract to design, build and install a new Fuel Rod Loader and ‘Strongback’ system. (Read More) 

Sonatest are proud to announce that the Prisma has won the Platinum “A’Design Award”.

The A’ Award and Competitions board are happy to inform that the Prisma project by L A Design & Sonatest Ltd wins the noted Platinum A’ Design Award at Scientific Instruments, Medical Devices and Research Equipment Design Competition. (Read More) 

Demand Project Quality to Ease Maintenance and Reduce Cost of Ownership

Once a control system project is completed, its ownership transfers to the customer and their production & engineering staff.

From that point on, ease of maintenance and cost of ownership kick in. This long period of responsibility for the machine control system is often not fully (Read More)

Superlift Material Handling Inc Offers A Full Line Of Custom Lifting Solutions

Including, custom manlifts, custom lift trucks, scissor lift tables and column lifts, with a special emphasis on stainless steel in 304 L and 316 L for food, marine, pharmaceutical and clean room applications. (Read More) 

Spirax Sarco systems help ReFood save over 10MWh per day at waste-to-energy plant

ReFood UK Limited is recovering more than 10MWh a day of energy and saving over £80,000 a year thanks to the use of heat recovery systems from Spirax Sarco at its new anaerobic digester (AD) facility at Doncaster. (Read More) 

TiME Process Produces Cranial Meshes

Titanium mesh cranioplasty is becoming increasingly popular for patients with large cranial defects caused by traumatic injuries, iatrogenic injuries and congenital defects.

Advanced Chemical Etching (ACE) has developed a chemical process for producing these meshes quickly and without resorting to the traditional (Read More)

ABB launches new license-free HART handheld configurator

The cost and complexity of configuring instruments in the field has now been significantly reduced following the introduction of ABB’s new lightweight and robust handheld configurator.

The mobile handheld DHH805 allows easy parameterization of any HART device from any manufacturer as long as its EDD (Read More) 

Guyson Maintenance Equipment for Injection Moulders

The Guyson Euroblast PF (pressure fed) systems are designed for speed, giving faster cleaning times (up to four times faster than suction fed venturi systems) to meet higher production requirements, pressure feed blast systems are excellent for removing tough, hard scale and deposits particularly within hard-to-reach recessed areas and complex shapes. (Read More) 

TouchStar Technologies launch another ‘military specification’ field tablet with 4G support

CA10, a semi-rugged tablet PC, is designed specifically for mobile workers in the field service, logistics, retail and hospitality sectors.

The CA10 runs the Genuine Windows 7 Professional operating system, and at its heart is the Intel Atom Processor N2600 running at 1.6GHz, supported by 2GB of DDRIII memory and an mSATA SSD of 64GB or 128GB.

The Essential Elements of Reliability and Maintenance Management. – Part III
Execute them and you will get guaranteed results.

Christer Idhammar
Founder and Executive Vice President
IDCON INC, Raleigh NC, USA
www.idcon.com

First I like to tell you about myself and from what perspective I write this article. My world is process industries such as Iron, Steel, Pulp, Power and Wood based industries such as Oriented Strand Board (OSB), medium Density Fiber (MDF),

Arco Offers World Class Products And Demonstrates Safety In Confined Spaces At This Year’s Safety & Health Expo (14-16Th May, Nec Birmingham)

Arco, the UK’s leading safety company, will unveil its state-of-the- art mobile confined space training unit to visitors at this year’s Safety and Health Expo.

The mobile confined space training unit incorporates the latest technologies to simulate a variety of industrial confined space working scenarios. Visitors will be able to see inside the tunnel network and witness live demonstrations throughout the show (Hall 1, Stand: I90).

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Engineering Maintenance Solutions - February 2013

No Power? No Problem For Rechargeable Drum Pump Motor

The ability to transfer fluids safely and cleanly from drums and barrels even when an electrical or air supply to power a pump is not available, would, in certain applications be a distinct advantage. Thanks to the introduction of a new rechargeable drum pump motor this is now possible. (Read More) 

Innovative Tribological Solutions Are Our Passion

Speciality lubricants are the Klüber Lubrication business. Klüber Lubrication offer their customers expert tribological solutions by supplying tailor-made speciality lubricants directly to customers in almost all branches of industry and regional markets.

Klüber Lubrication customers include (Read More)

Tribology/TechLube (TTL) has originated, specified and produced the highest quality, synthetic and specialty, Food Grade (FG) rated lubricants for over 30 years

Recently, TTL gained added respect in this strictly monitored field by passing a meticulous manufacturing audit by one of the largest and foremost pharmaceutical companies, worldwide.

FG lubes, formulated for the pharmaceutical (Read More)

Sololube – Precise Electromechanical Single-Point Lubrication

Sololube is a reliable, easy-to-operate Lubricator with an electromechanical drive.

Its precise delivery system makes Sololube equally suitable for the automatic lubrication of roller and friction bearings, gear racks, open transmissions or chains.
Sololube has a robust, very precise drive motor, (Read More)

ATS Electro-Lube (UK) Ltd Have Added Another Product To Their Well Proven Range Of Self Contained Automatic Lubricators.

The new Jack-Luber is a fully self-contained battery powered lubricator available with either a 125cc or 250cc replaceable grease cartridge.

Grease cartridges can be supplied filled with the specific brand & type of grease type required for the application & can be (Read More)

Lubricus – Modern Lubrication Technology

The “Lubricus” is a compact lubrication unit for oils and greases.

The lubrication system operates either autonomously with a battery pack or via an external power supply (24VDC). Lubricus is available with 1-4 outlets, to ensure the right medium is available to choose from for every application. The lubrication unit is (Read More)

Fragol Releases New Food Grade Lubricants Line Fragol Gmbh+Co. Kg Has Introduced A Comprehensive Portfolio Of High Quality H1 Lubricants.

The products on offer range from compressor and vacuum pump lubricants through hydraulic fluids, gear oils, greases and on to a brand new state of the art chain oil for extreme temperatures.

FRAGOL uses a wide range of available (Read More)

Using Low Cost Seals Can Be A Long Term False Economy

Production processes utilising hazardous chemicals such as acids and amines, very often at elevated temperatures of 150°C or more, occur in a wide range of manufacturing industries including oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical and semiconductor.

The combination of corrosive fluids and high (Read More)

Unique Lubrication System Extends Chain Life

It was Leonardo da Vinci who said that ‘simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’ and, with Interlube’s unique chain lubrication system, it seems that the simple ideas really are the best.

The revolutionary Rotalube® system significantly extends chain life and reduces maintenance costs which is paramount in today’s competitive (Read More)

LOK Link adaptor Connects Modular Safety Interlocks to Enhance Machine Safety

Fortress Interlocks has introduced a new LOK Link adaptor that connects its modular mGard interlocks directly to its new amGard Pro range of LOK and Stop safety gate switch interlocks.

The ability to link the two enhances Fortress’ mechanical mGard range by adding a safety switch and direct solenoid (Read More)

Diagnose Problems Early – Before They Even Become An Issue.

Deterioration in machinery health and performance is usually associated with misalignment or imbalance, corrosion and wear, fouling, sediment build-up or poorly lubricated parts.

Detecting these underlying problems early allows you to correct issues before they affect your process, optimising  (Read More)

Denso Builds A Brand New Training Centre

Anti-corrosion and sealing specialist Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd have just finished building and furnishing a new training centre in their London head office and factory premises.

The area comprises a highly customised workshop, primarily designed for the application and demonstration of the company’s coating and (Read More)

The Importance Of Efficient Hydraulic Hose Training

When the efficient operation and maintenance of plant and equipment, as well as the health & safety of the workforce is at stake, only the best hydraulic hose training and service provision is acceptable, writes Ian Morris, director, the British Fluid Power Association.

Fluid power plays an important part in the production, maintenance and operation of a wide range of plant and equipment within a wide range of industrial sectors; from engineering and manufacturing, offshore and agriculture to construction and off-highway. One of the most critical of all components within the fluid power armoury is the hydraulic hose. And despite its simple appearance, the hose has to be able to operate at very high pressures and also needs (Read More)

BINDT Accreditation For Flir Infrared Training

Thermal imaging is now an industry standard method for condition monitoring and preventive maintenance. Its efficiency and application flexibility has driven its take-up across all industrial sectors and as a result camera costs have fallen thanks to manufacturing economies. (Read More) 

National Instruments Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance Summit

Embedded condition monitoring of machinery and mechanical systems is essential in order to minimise unscheduled outages, optimise machine efficiency, reduce maintenance and repair costs, and support increased revenue growth through competitive advantage.

Hear from industry experts at NI’s Condition (Read More)  

Calibration System Provider Aims To Assist Customers To Drive Process Improvements And Accelerate Return On Investment By Providing A Best Practice Training And Professional Development Experience.

Beamex is highly regarded for manufacturing and supplying high quality calibration instrumentation and software, designed to deliver cost savings whilst improving the efficiency and compliance to regulation of the customers calibration process. (Read More) 

SoftSols And Agility Help To End The Age-Old Problem Of Wonky Wheels.

Leading retail products and services provider Symonds UK turned to Computerised Maintenance Management Systems specialists SoftSols to improve their existing performance still further.

The client
Symonds UK is a leading provider of products and (Read More)

Building a Case for Maintenance Management Software

Implementing software to optimise the operational efficiency of the maintenance department makes sound financial sense. However, if funding approval is required, writing a business case can be a daunting prospect. (Read More)