Easier maintenance and better control and flexibility are being reported by Novartis at its biotech production facility in Huningue, France, following installation of a wireless plant network.
Biomass PlantA leading North West law firm is urging engineering firms to review their health and safety polices, since tough new sentencing guidelines for corporate manslaughter offences have now come into force....
Corporate ManslaughterCompressed air products and process systems distributor Thorite has published Air-Equip, featuring equipment for small to medium size maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) operations. Most important...
CompressorsSKF has developed a grease test methodology and portable test kit to assess condition on plant. For fresh and used grease, the kit checks consistency, oil bleeding and contamination, enabling plant...
Lubricants/GreasesSKF is offering training courses for production and maintenance engineers, covering machine reliability, condition monitoring, bearing applications and failure assessment, as well as best practices in...
BearingsSites that need to reorganise their engineering stores are being offered assistance by Eriks.
Lubricants/Greases
'Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular' is using industrial blowers to create the lifelike inflatable greenery that grows during performances.
Fans
By turning to cryogenic (dry ice) cleaning, fruit pre-packer Turners PPL reckons it has cut the time to strip down, clean, refurbish and reassemble its weighing and packing machines from five days to...
Cleandown
Savings of a staggering _372,558 per annum are being reported on an annealing process line accumulator sheave at a major UK steelworks, following
bespoke redesign of the bearing assembly.
Hybrid gearboxes, installed to open and close fume capture doors at Corus steelworks' iron desulphurisation plant in Scunthorpe, have proved
themselves strong, durable and capable of very high...
Vaughan chopper pumps, supplied by P&M Pumps, have cut costs caused by unplanned maintenance at Severn Trent Water's Netheridge, Gloucester
treatment works, and are now also achieving significant...
Plant engineers at whisky manufacturer Chivas Regal say they selected a Verderflex Dura 10 peristaltic hose pump for a lime-dosing water treatment
application at the Glenlivet plant, because of its...