Inorganic chemicals manufacturer William Blythe reports saving thousands of pounds and several days of production time since switching to ABB pressure transmitters.
Pressure Testing/Measurement
Parker Hannifin Manufacturing has won top honours at the Best Factory Awards 2011 presneted at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in Piccadilly, London.
Filtration and Separation
The UK's largest closed loop ground source gas absorption heat pump installation is now proving itself by providing plentiful low carbon heat at the Open University in Milton Keynes.
Heat Pumps
Coriolis flowmeters will overtake standard differential pressure flowmeters as the largest in the market by 2014, according to IMS Research.
Flow Measurement
BITA (the British Industrial Truck Association) and City of Bristol College are now working together, with the stated aim of ensuring the availability of qualified engineers for the forklift truck...
Apprenticeships
Machinery safety specialist Pilz Automation Technology has been accredited as a skills training provider by The National Skills Academy for its City & Guilds machinery safety courses.
Machine Safety/Protection
ABB control systems are helping Tata Steel cut the cost of iron production at its Scunthorpe plant, by allowing it to use medium pressure oxygen in its blast furnaces.
Process Management Systems
Don't get me wrong: it's hard to argue with current moves to streamline health and safety legislation, in line with Lord Young's 'Common Sense, Common Safety' report – especially given that chief...
Fume Extraction
Predictive maintenance is an important route to cutting costs and improving plant performance. And, says Brian Tinham, the condition monitoring technologies upon which it relies are ripe for the...
Condition MonitoringPlant engineers wedded to particular instrument and control types might do well to widen the net. Brian Tinham examines recent developments in instrumentation and control
Level Measurement
FH Tank Storage is using Emerson Process Management's Rosemount wireless level and pressure transmitters to provide overspill protection at its 13,000m3 68-tank Kalmar storage terminal, in Sweden.
Level Measurement
Cooper Crouse-Hinds reports that it has engineered an explosion-proof fluorescent light fitting for the Chevron-operated Gorgon project, at Barrow Island, that specifically minimises disturbance of...
Lighting