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Offshore inspection equipment wins manus award

An offshore inspection unit from remote intervention tooling and subsea engineering specialist ToolTec has won the 5,000 euros manus award 2019.

Planned Maintenance
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Radius acquires Plant-i

Crewe-based Radius Payment Solutions, the group behind the telematics and fuel card brands Kinesis and UK Fuels, has acquired Plant-i, a Welsh-based provider of tracking and telemetry solutions to the...

Security Services
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Amey secures new United Utilities contracts for water network maintenance

Public services provider Amey has been appointed by United Utilities to look after its South region wastewater network.

Waste Management
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New fleet for Ecolab

Ecolab, a global provider of water, hygiene and energy technologies and services to the food, energy, healthcare, industrial and hospitality markets, has invested in a fleet of new vans and cars from...

Water Treatment
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TÜV SÜD launches dedicated IoT cellular test service for Industry 4.0 support

TÜV SÜD has launched its new Internet of Things (IoT) cellular testing service – said to be the only laboratory in the UK to offer a fully dedicated Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) test and certification...

Communication Systems
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A.G Barr (Irn Bru) achieves AMIS Assessment

A.G Barr’s Milton Keynes site was first assessed using the ‘AMIS Assessment’ in November 2016. An improvement plan was agreed and, following subsequent assessments in 2017 and 2018, the Milton Keynes...

Planned Maintenance
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Siemens Digital Industries wins productivity contract with malt manufacturer

Siemens Digital Industries has secured a major international productivity and technology programme with Boortmalt Group.

Carbon Emissions
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Saving rinse water

Over a decade ago, pump OEM Grundfos set itself a target to reduce total water usage at all of its plants by 50% come 2025. In striving to achieve this, various solutions have been put into place all...

Water Treatment
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They came… They thaw… They conquered

Engineers and scientists have taken industry standard equipment to Antarctica and used a hot water drill to break through the ice. From there, a string of instruments has been used to understand ice...

Sensors
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Comment: Head in the sand?

A workshop from Make UK’s National Manufacturing Conference is profiled this month. Entitled ‘monetising your digital future’, the session gave speakers from across different manufacturing sectors a...

Wireless
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Interview: AI for industrial inspection

Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Inspection was the title, and subject, of a January conference organised by the Bristol Robotics Lab and the Centre for Modelling & Simulation. The latter’s AI...

Maintenance Management Systems
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Facing digital

Make UK (formerly EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation) held its National Manufacturing Conference in February. A panel of speakers in one workshop spoke about their own, very different digital...

Data Acquisition